OFC/NFOEC 2013 Archive Technical Conference: March 17-21, 2013 Exposition: March 19-21, 2013 Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA After five days of sessions, workshops, panels, show floor activities, short courses and special events, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) wrapped up in Anaheim, Calif. yesterday. The show featured more than 800 presentations, 550+ exhibitors and 12,000 attendees from around the world. Hot topics covered in technical sessions to post-deadline papers to show floor panels included software-defined networks, silicon photonics, 100G/400G network design, cloud and data center networking, and many others. OFC/NFOEC’s most well-attended program, the Plenary and Awards Session, featured three high-level speakers on three diverse topics. Caio Bonilha, president and CEO of Brazil’s state-owned service provider Telebras discussed the country’s efforts to establish a national broadband network amid varying challenges, such as deployment in and amongst the Amazon terrain. Stanford’s Nick McKeown, credited with co-inventing software-defined networking, gave insights into what exactly SDN and OpenFlow is and what it will mean for future networks. ADVA Optical Networking CEO Brian Protiva gave a comprehensive look at the coming transformation of the network – from growth drivers and state of the industry to specific solutions needed to meet future challenges. Hundreds of companies were on hand, showing their latest product offerings and services, and announcing the latest in areas such as 100G deployment, photonic integration, tunable SFP+ transceivers, data center interconnects, and new innovations on the client side . The show floor theaters featured expanded programming this year to include topics on cloud services, silicon photonics, SDN and photonic start-ups. Market Watch explored key areas such as Metro 100G, packet optical convergence and optics in the data center. The Service Provider Summit was headlined by Telx’s Joe Weinman, who spoke on What Cloudonomics Means for the Network. Panels included Monetizing the Network – examining issues such as whether big data can help service providers in today’s economy and Acquisition and Integration Strategies in the Service Provider Realm. Technical sessions provided attendees with insights into the latest research being conducted at top institutions worldwide. Highlighted topics included a hybrid OpenFlow/PCE controller for more efficient remote control of optical networks, a record-setting optical link that cuts supercomputer power consumption by more than half, a new technique for automatically assembling a multicore fiber, and a new distance record for 400 Gb/S data transmission. The popular and uniquely formatted rump session covered whether silicon photonics will unlock a new future for optical chips, or whether hype has outpaced the technology. Special symposia on enabling the cloud and convergence of wireless and optical networking offered attendees an even deeper look at the latest in those areas, while a special tribute symposium to optical communications pioneer Tingye Li explored his 40+ years of contributions that spanned the entire history of modern optical telecommunications. Conference and show floor attendees alike agreed this year’s event was alive and well – buzzing with the latest innovations and marketplace applications, while providing the top venue for researchers, engineers, business persons, entrepreneurs and others to meet, network and discuss the future of the optical communications field. Join us next year as we head to a new venue – San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, 9-13 March 2014. Download pages from the OFC/NFOEC Program Book! Agenda of Sessions Abstracts Key to Authors and Presiders Update Sheet 2013 OFC/NFOEC Committees OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee General Chairs Chuck Joyner, USA Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA Program Chairs Seb Savory, UCL, UK Clint Schow, IBM, USA Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA NFOEC Committee 1. Optical Network Applications and Services George Clapp, AT&T Research Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair Michel Belanger, Ciena/Nortel, Canada Martin Birk, AT&T Research, USA Zeljko Bulut, Nokia-Siemens Networks, USA Valey Kamalov, Google, USA Bernhard Kubis, Adva, Germany Inder Monga, ESnet, USA Takuya Ohara, NTT, Japan Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA Ronald A. Skoog, Applied Communications Sciences, USA 2. Network Technologies and Applications Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany, Subcommittee Chair Cavazzoni, Telecom Italia, Italy Robert Doverspike, AT&T, USA Jim Jaques, LGS Innovations, USA Dion Leung, Tellabs, Singapore Stephen Liu, Verizon, USA Thierry Marcot, France Telecom / Orange Labs, France Senichi Suzuki, NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI, Japan Xi Wang, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon, USA, Subcommittee Chair Martin Bouda, Fujitsu, USA Pedram Dashti, Google, USA Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA Frank Escher, Deutsche Telecom, Germany Shunji Kimura, NTT Access Network Labs, Japan Julie D. Lorentzen, AT&T, USA Albert Rafel, BT, UK Joe Smith, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Rajesh Yadav, Verizon, USA Scott Wilkinson, Hitachi, USA 4. Market Watch and Service Provider Summit Karen Liu, Ovum, USA, Subcommittee Chair Samuel Liu, Juniper, USA Steve Plote, Tellabs, USA OFC Committee 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects Misha Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mikhail Brodsky, AT&T Labs, USA Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Liang Dong, Clemson Univ., USA Anping Liu, Corning, Inc., USA Kunimasa Saitoh, Hokkaido Univ., Japan Takashi Sasaki, Sumitomo, Japan Pierre Sillard, Draka, France Moshe Tur, Tel Aviv University, Israel Sergei Turitsyn, Aston University, UK Alexey Turukhin, Tyco, USA 6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors Shu Namiki, AIST, Japan, Subcommittee Chair Kazi Abedin, OFS Labs., USA John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia Zuyuan He, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Peter Krummrich, Technical Univ. of Dortmund, Germany Ju Han Lee, Univ. of Seoul, S. Korea John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA Yoichi Oikawa, Trimatiz Ltd., Japan Lutz Rapp, NSN, Germany Yoshinori Yamamoto, Sumitomo, Japan Lin Zhang, Univ. of Aston, UK 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects Chris Doerr, Acacia, USA, Subcommittee Chair Solomon Assefa, IBM, USA Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China Juerg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Katsunari Okamoto, AiDi Corp, Japan Andrew Poon, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Milos Popovic, University of Colorado, USA Roland Ryf, Alcatel Lucent, USA Takashi Saida, NTT, Japan Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium Tsung-Yang (Jason) Liow, Institute of Micro Electronics (IME), Singapore 8. Optoelectronic Device Andreas Beling, Univ. of Virginia, USA, Subcommittee Chair Yuliva Akulova, JDSU, USA John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA Jonathan Klamkin, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Dan Kuchta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr, USA Shinji Matsuo, NTT Photonics Labs., Japan Gunther Roelkens, Ghent Univ./ IMEC, Belgium Toshiki Sugawara, Hitachi, Ltd. Central Research Lab., Japan Liming Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Lars Zimmermann, IHP, Germany 9 . Digital Transmission Systems Michael Eiselt, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany, Subcommittee Chair Ivan Djordjevic, Univ. Arizona, USA Fabrizio Forghieri, Cisco, Italy Ronald Freund, Fraunhofer Inst. HHI, Germany Lara Garrett, TE SubCom, USA Ezra Ip, NEC Labs America, USA Benny Mikkelsen, Acacia Inc., USA Akihide Sano, NTT, Japan Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel Dirk van den Borne, Juniper Networks, Germany Chongjin Xie, Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA 10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Element Xiang Liu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Calvin Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Chris Fludger, Cisco, Germany Moshe Nazarathy, Technion, Israel Reinhold Noe, University of Paderborn, Germany Leslie Rusch, Laval University, Canada William Shieh, University of Melbourne, Australia Etsushi Yamazaki, NTT Labs, Japan Lianshan Yan, Southwestern Jiaotong Univ., China Xiang Zhou, ATT Labs, USA 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystem Alwyn Seeds, , UCL, UK, Subcommittee Chair Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA Satoki Kawanishi, Optoquest, Japan Guifang Li, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Richard Penty, University of Cambridge, UK Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton, UK Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy Michael Sauer, Corning, USA Andreas Stoehr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Kenneth K.Y. Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 12. Core Network Andrew Lord, BT Labs, UK, Subcommittee Chair Angela Chiu, AT&T Labs, USA Akira Hirano, NTT Network Innovations Labs., Japan Jason Jue, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Esther Le Rouzic, Orange Labs, Networks and Carriers, France Annalisa Morea, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Lyndon Ong, Ciena, USA Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Juniper, USA Motoyoshi Sekiya, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Georgios Zervas, University of Bristol, UK 13. Access Network Kenneth Reichmann, AT&T Labs-Research, USA, Subcommittee