Winter 2017 Optical Connections Magazine

Winter 2017 Optical Connections Magazine

ISSUE 11 | Q4 2017

BRINGING THE WORLD THE LATEST IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS NEWS

NEXTGEN OPTICAL SOFTWARE THE KEY TO FUTURE SUCCESS p18

FTTX NEEDS TO PASS THE COST-BENEFIT TEST

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THE BROAD VIEW OF HIGH-SPEED CONNECTIVITY

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EUROPE’S MASSIVE

FTTX ROLLOUT p15

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CONTENTS

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Industry News

12 John Williamson – FTTx Needs To Pass the Test 15 Magnus Angermund – Europe’s FTTx Demands New Methods 16 Matthew Peach – The Broad View of High Speed Connectivity 18 Antony Savvas – Next-Gen Software the Key 20 Stefan Vorndran & Scott Jordan – Automated Alignment Boosts 23 Ellen Manning – Not Just Greener Networks 24 Matthew Peach – Connect 2017 in Berlin Throws Light on Gigabit Broadband 26 Markus Weber – Coherent Interoperability Required 28 John Williamson – Silicon Photonics Passes the Tipping Point 30 Li Hongbiao – Bearer Networks Challenges 32 Antony Savvas – The Changing Test & Measurement Landscape 34 Event Focus 35 Product Focus

Hit the ground running

Happy New Year! to all our readers. 2018 is forecast by many to be an even busier year for the industry, matched by a new calendar of larger exhibitions and conferences, reflecting increased activity in emerging areas like gigabit networks, Gfast and silicon photonics solutions, and 5G for people on the move. But just because the industry can do something it doesn’t always mean it’s cost eective. A case in point is FTTX, which needs to pass the cost-benefit test before it should be deployed, as John Williamson writes. Continuing this theme, Hextronic argues that Europe’s booming FTTX rollout is demanding new methods and solutions. In October, Broadband World Forum presented a wide range of services and solutions. From that Berlin gathering Optical Connections has derived an interview with Robin Mersh, CEO of the Broadband Forum, as well as a report from Adtran’s Connect 17 industry conference. Considering that next-generation optical software is the key to future services, Antony Savvas says that operators need to take a mix-and-match approach to networks if they are to meet the demands of the cloud, 5G and the Internet of Things. The development of automated fibre aligners has made a significant dierence to what could be a tedious task. So how has this technology progressed from the early devices, and what is possible with today’s technology? Experts from Physik Instrumente explain its evolution. Regular contributor Ellen Manning this issue looks at the development of greener optical networks. She finds that besides satisfying increasing legislation in this area, greener optical networks can actually be cheaper, perform better and occupy less space. It wouldn’t be Optical Connections if we didn’t give an update on silicon photonics. Now John Williamson believes that this technology has passed the “tipping point”, adding that with its immense potential for cost eective transformation of optical communications and >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 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40

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