Optical Connections Industry Focus 2021

Optical Connections Industry Focus 2021

INDUSTRY FOCUS 2021/2022

BRINGING THE WORLD THE LATEST IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS NEWS

THE YEAR AHEAD What’s in store for 2022? | p16 & p22

OPEN OPTICAL NETWORKS: 20 Years in the Making | p14

COMPRESSORS: The future of broadband rollout | p24

TOP PRODUCTS OF 2021 Editor’s Picks | p11

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CONTENTS

While we take a look back at some of the highlights of 2021, the main focus of this issue is looking to the future. The end of 2021 is almost upon us and the new year beckons, but what will 2022 hold for the fibre optic communications industry? In this issue we asked two leading analysts and three major industry players for their views and while their findings are not overly surprising, they do define what the industry needs to do to respond to the exponential demand for bandwidth and the disruption to supply chains created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking of which, trade shows and expo’s have started going live once more and, Covid variants notwithstanding, they will continue that way in 2022. Let’s face it, however effective the technology behind virtual expo’s becomes, there’s no substitute for meeting face-to-face, or at least mask-to- mask. A prime example was ECOC 2021, held in Bordeaux in September. Despite travel restrictions in place in some countries, the show attracted 130 exhibiting companies and 2,512 attendees frommore than 40 countries. Going forward, Optical Connections’ latest venture, the Telecoms, Optics and Photonics (TOP) conference, in London in February, will also be live, as will OFC and ECOC 2022 in Basel. So, what can we look forward to by way of developments in the year ahead? It seems that 2022 will be less about new technologies, and more about advancing existing ones. In this issue, Infinera’s Paul Momtahan writes that the stars have finally aligned for multi-vendor, open, and disaggregated optical networking, to enable optical networks where coherent transponders/muxponders from one or more vendors can run over an open line system from a different vendor. Also, Reichle & De Massari’s Michiel Panders and Andreas Rüsseler take a look at expected developments in the Local Area Networks, >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35

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