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EXHIBITION: 22 – 24 March 2016

TRAINING COURSES: 20 – 21 March 2016

TECHNICAL CONFERENCE: 20 – 24 March 2016

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, USA

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The data center landscape is changing rapidly and it is critical to stay in front of the technology curve to support your evolving business demands. When it comes to network architecture, interconnects, cabling and switching — optical technology is here and will only continue to grow at a rapid pace well into the future.

OFC is the epicenter of the optics industry — where it is today and where it is going tomorrow in terms of both technologies and product solutions. You can do it all here — see new products, meet with vendors, establish new contacts, conduct business, attend educational sessions and take a training course.

No other data center conference brings together so many experts in the entire optical networking value chain — from optical cable suppliers to communications service providers —OFC has them all.

why OFC for data center?

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Who Should Attend OFC?

COMPANY TYPE

Internet Data Centers Content Delivery Networks Colocation Data Centers Enterprise Data Centers

SAMPLE DATA CENTER JOB TITLES OF 2015 ATTENDEES

CIO/CTO Cloud Optical Engineer Data Center Manager/Engineer Director of Networking Hardware Engineer IT Director Network Architect/Engineer/Planner Optical Network Engineer Systems Engineer VP, IP Networks

SAMPLE OF COMPANIES REGISTERED FOR 2015

Akamai Alibaba Amazon/AWS Apple CenturyLink Comcast Cox Communications Digital Realty Equinix ESPN Facebook Google JP/Morgan Chase Microsoft Morgan Stanley Time Warner Cable

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OFC is the Premier Conference and Exhibition for Data Center and Networking Professionals.

It draws over 13,000 optical network technology and business leaders from 65 countries. They come seeking knowledge about the future direction of the communications market — from the latest research and developments to the newest implementations. For over 40 years OFC has been the go-to event in optical networking.

Experience OFC and All It Has to Offer Data Center Professionals

• The exhibition features over 600 exhibitors, with over 30 showcasing optical products and solutions for data centers and admission is free.

• 12 educational sessions on the show floor offer perspectives on optics in data center from industry leaders and admission is free.

• Take a training course covering optics in the data center — there are six to choose from.

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exhibition

INTER-DATA CENTER NETWORKING EQUIPMENT

INTRA-DATA CENTER NETWORKING EQUIPMENT

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS SUPPLIERS

OPTICAL CONNECTIVITY SUPPLIERS

ADVA Optical Networking •Alight Technologies •Avago Technologies •Amphenol •Calient Technologies •Ciena Corporation •Cisco Systems • •ColorChip •Coriant •Corning •FCI • •Finisar • •Foxconn Interconnect Technologies • •

Fujitsu Network Communications • • •

Huawei Technologies • •Infinera •Innolight Technologies •Juniper Networks •Kaiam Corporation •Lightron Fiber-Optics Devices •

Lumentum (formerly JDSU) •Mellanox Technologies •Menara Networks • Neophotonics •

Oclaro •OFS •Oplink/Molex • •PacketLight Networks •Samtec •Sony Source Photonics •Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations • •

TE Connectivity • •TeraXion •US Conec, Ltd. •

See new data center optical products. Admittance to the exhibition is free with Exhibits Pass Plus registration. For more information on each exhibitor visit ofcconference.org/exhibithall.

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Experts from global brands and key industry organizations provide insights on the state-of-the-industry and recommend optical port solutions to plan for the future.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Advancements in Ethernet architectures, deployments and technologies — from 25G to 400G

• Next generation networks for data centers

• How SDN advances data center networks

• Optical pluggable devices

• Optical networks for colocation providers

• Open Networking Forum programs

• COBO initiatives

• Ethernet Alliance activities

HEAR SPEAKERS FROM:

Arista Networks AT&T Broadcom Brocade Cisco Corning Cumulus Networks Digital Realty Trust Ethernet Alliance Equinix Facebook Google Juniper LinkedIn Microsoft Open Networking Forum Plexxi Networks Pica8

attend data center educational programs

show floor programs

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Short Courses are half-day training courses that offer clear, concise overviews of data center topics and optical networking and are taught by industry experts from Google, IBM, Cisco and more. (Registration fee required.)

DATA CENTER TRAINING COURSES

• Data Center Networking

• Building Green Networks: New Concepts for Energy Reduction

• Evolution of WAN Transport towards SDN Architectures and Cloud Service Delivery

• Link Design for Short Reach Optical Interconnects

• Photonic Technologies in the Data Center

• SDN Standard and Applications

get in-depth training in optical technologies.

short courses

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SUNDAY, 20 MARCH

MONDAY, 21 MARCH

TUESDAY, 22 MARCH

WEDNESDAY, 23 MARCH

THURSDAY, 24 MARCH

General

Exhibition and Show Floor

10:00 – 17:00

10:00 – 17:00

10:00 – 16:00

Unopposed Exhibit-only Time 10:00 – 12:00

12:00 – 13:00

12:00 – 13:00

Registration 08:00 – 19:30

07:30 – 18:00

07:30 – 19:00

07:00 – 17:00

07:30 – 17:00

Data Center Programming on Show Floor

Will The Emergence of SDN change How Data Centers are Built

15:30 – 18:30

Carrier SDN 11:30 – 13:00

Next Generation Data Center Optics

12:45 – 14:45

100G and Beyond Pluggable Devices

14:30 – 16:00

Transport SDN — Getting Down to Business

14:45 – 15:45

COBO — What It is and Why You Should Care

10:30 – 12:00

System Disaggregation in Next-Generation Transport Networks

12:30 – 14:00

The State of Ethernet Optics 14:30 – 15:30

Global Collocation Market 15:30 – 17:00

Ethernet Fiber Optic Cabling Trends

16:00 – 17:00

Rational Assessment of 400G Ethernet

10:30 – 12:00

The Impact of Mega Data Centers on the Industry Supply Chain

11:00 – 12:30

Where are We on 25GE and 50 GE?

12:30 – 14:00

Data Center Training Courses (Registration Fee Required)

Data Center Networking 101 09:00 – 13:00

Link Design for Short Reach Optical Interconnects

09:00 – 12:00

Building Green Networks 17:00 – 20:00

SDN Standards and Applications 09:00 – 12:00

Evolution of WAN Transport toward SDN Architectures

13:30 – 16:30

Photonic Technologies in the Data Center

13:30 – 16:30

schedule

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Will the Emergence of SDN Change How Data Centers are Built?Sunday, 20 March, 15:30 – 18:30 PMBallroom E

ORGANIZERS: Nathan Farrington, Rockley Photonics, USA Guohui Wang, Facebook, USA

Attributes of software defined networking (SDN) are beginning to be deployed inside data centers. Will these attributes affect the optics used inside data centers? Will it drive down the cost of optics? Will it compel transceiver manufacturers to implement new software interfaces, and if so, what will these interfaces look like? Will it enable new types of optical circuit switching networks? Are there specific features of SDN that enable these transformations to take place or could the same cost and performance be realized without SDN?

SPEAKERS: Omar Baldonado, Manager Network Team, Facebook, USA Anees Shaikh, Network Architect, Google, USA Nolan Leake, Co-founder, Cumulus Networks, USA David Husak, Founder and CTO, Plexxi Networks, USA James Liao, Founder and CEO, Pica8, USA

Carrier Grade SDNTuesday, 22 March, 11:30 – 13:00Expo Theater II, Exhibit Hall B

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

Since its inception in 2011, ONF has been the principal industry advocate for open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), guided by operators spanning the Data Center, Enterprise, and Carrier/WAN segments.

Over the past year, interest in SDN among Communications Service Providers (CSPs) including carriers, cable MSOs, and cloud operators has been growing, driven by the incredible demands for transport bandwidth, cloud connectivity, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). ONF has responded by involving industry leaders, Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), and open source projects to guide Carrier Grade SDN. Our innovations in Transport SDN especially have garnered considerable enthusiasm in the operator community. In this session, ONF leaders will review ongoing initiatives, including Information Modeling, Transport SDN, SDN Migration, and Security, along with support for a number of open source projects, all aimed at easing adoption in brownfield networks and operationalizing SDN.

SPEAKERS: Marc Cohn, ONF Market Area Director, Senior Vice President, ClearPath Networks, USALyndon Ong, Chair of the ONF Open Transport Working Group, Ciena Fellow, Ciena, USA

Free with Exhibits Pass Plus Registration

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Next Generation Data Center OpticsTuesday, 22 March, 12:45 – 14:45Expo Theater III, Exhibit Hall A

ORGANIZERS: Gary Nicholl, CISCO, Canada Craig Thompson, Finisar, USA

This panel event will address the emerging optics needs of the data center market. Discussion will compare and contrast the needs and solutions for the hyperscale and enterprise data center markets, for both the next wave of deployments at 25GbE and 100GbE, as well as the next generation based on 50GbE, 400GbE and possible derivatives (eg 200G).

Alexis Bjorlin, VP Data Center Group & GM Silicon Photonics Group, Intel, USA Mitch Fields, VP, Fiber Optics Division, Avago, USA Rob Stone, Technical Director, Broadcom, Ltd., USA

The Promising Market of 100G and Beyond Pluggable Devices — Talk with Experts Tuesday, 22 March, 14:30 – 16:00Expo Theater I, Exhibit Hall C

MODERATOR: Shamim Akhtar, Global Network Architecture & Technology Strategy, Apple, USA

100G transceivers are used for three major types of connections: intra- and inter-datacenter, transport client, and metro/access — all of which have improved significantly lately.

Photonic integration has been plodding along, and has started to play an important role in reduction of power, footprint, and cost of the pluggable. The detailed designs of the devices, however, have many flavors such as: four-wave or four-fiber 28GBd NRZ, two-wave 28GBd PAM4, single-wave 56GBd PAM4, single-wave DMT, and so on. At the same time,

there are various form factors to be considered as well including QSFP, CFP4, SFP+, and even as passive ports on boards directly. This panel of industry experts will strive to determine the potential winning technology from the wide variety of options.

SPEAKERS:Sudeep Bhoja, CTO, InPhi, USA Mitch Fields, VP, Fiber Optics Products Division, Avago Technologies, USA, Kenneth Jackson, Product Marketing Director, Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, USA Yves LeMaitre, President of Optical Connectivity Business, Oclaro, USA Matt Traverso, TMG Engineering, Cisco, USA

Transport SDN — Getting Down to BusinessTuesday, 22 March, 14:45 – 15:45Expo Theater III, Exhibit Hall A

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the OIF

MODERATOR: Dave Brown, Director, Optical Networking Product Marketing, Nokia; Board Member and Vice President of Marketing, Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)

Market adoption for transport or carrier SDN has progressed from field trials to deployments by innovators and early adopters. Now all carriers are seriously evaluating and gearing up for deployments. The key objectives in all these efforts is to profitably deliver on-demand services by not only simplifying and optimizing networks but by automating and differentiating their service offerings. The ability to implement open and standard APIs and well-defined services for transport SDN is a key to success. In this session, OIF expert panelists will assess the state of the transport SDN market and provide an update on work related to APIs and service definitions.

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SPEAKERS:Lyndon Ong, OIF Market Awareness & Education Co-Chair-Networking, Ciena, USA Jonathan Sadler, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair, Coriant, USA Vishnu Shukla, Carrier Working Group chair for the Optical Internetworking Forum

COBO — What It Is and Why You Should CareWednesday, 23 March, 10:30 – 12:00Expo Theater II, Exhibit Hall B

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO)

MODERATOR: Jeff Demain, Strategic Marketing Director, Silicon Photonics Solutions, Intel, USA

The panel will give an overview of the Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO) with shared perspectives from an optics supplier, network equipment manufacturer and a datacenter end user. Learn about how this industry consortium is advancing on-board optics and the impact it’s going to have on the market.

PANELISTS:Brad Booth, Principal Architect, Azure Networking, Microsoft, USA Yannick Lize, Director of Product Development, Silicon Photonics Solutions Group, Intel, USA Jeff Maki, Distinguished Engineer II, Juniper Networks, USA Christopher Metivier, VP Manufacturing and Platform Engineering, Arista Networks, USA

System Disaggregation in Next Generation Transport NetworksWednesday, 23 March, 12:30 – 14:00Expo Theater II, Exhibit Hall B

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative

MODERATOR: Loukas Paraschis, Senior Architect, Cisco Systems, USA

System disaggregation has very recently (last 6-9 months) been introduced by a handful of major network operators as a very important innovation in next-generation Transport SDN architectures. This panel will debate the most important characteristics of such innovation, and its value in traditional telecom and cable networks, as well as in the increasingly important “cloud-centric” networks. The panel will also aim to explore the interplay of system disaggregation, with the new transport technologies across layer1-3, and the SDN-motivated control plane evolution, that are being increasingly adopted to address the current transport network challenges. Many of the topics covered in this panel are being developed through IEEE Future Directions activities, e.g., Cloud Computing, Big Data, SDN, IoT, etc.

SPEAKERS:Bikash Koley, Distinguished Engineer & Director, Network Architecture and Engineering, Google, USA Peter Löthberg, Network Architect, Deutsche Telekom Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Director of Engineering, Facebook, USA Amy E. Wheelus, Assistant Vice President, D2.0 Technology Realization, AT&T, USA

The State of Ethernet OpticsWednesday, 23 March, 14:30 – 15:30 Expo Theater II, Exhibit Hall B

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the Ethernet Alliance

MODERATOR: Scott Kipp, Ethernet Alliance President, Brocade, USA

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This Ethernet Alliance panel will discuss the latest developments in Ethernet that include 25/40/50/100/200 and 400GbE optics.

SPEAKERS:Chris Cole, Director, Transceiver Engineering, Finisar, USA

Brad Smith, Director of Marketing, LinkX Team, Mellanox, USA

The Global Colocation Market — Are Worlds Colliding? Wednesday, 23 March, 15:30 – 17:00 Expo Theater I, Exhibit Hall C

MODERATOR:Vinay Rathore, Sr. Director of Field and Segment Marketing, Infinera, USA

Initially driven by simple cross connects — copper and fiber, new options within the colocation data center are emerging, primarily Layer 2 cross connect switching. Now that content providers are entering colocation sites in more and more metro locations, and CDN players are establishing themselves in the same sites, has the mix of the colocation site moved from the traditional ‘buyer’ — the Enterprise moving to the cloud — to now add a ‘sellers’ market of content/cloud/CDN providers within the entire connectivity site?

This session will be a combination of an educational panel as well as one that introduces new services like Cloud Exchange/Connect and what new optical technologies like ROADMs colocation providers will need in the next few years.

SPEAKERS:Robert Keys, CTO, BTI Systems, USA Phill Lawson-Shanks, Chief Solutions Architect, EdgeConneX, USA Rao Lingampalli, Senior Manager, Optical Network Architecture, Equinix, USA Hunter Newby, Allied Fiber, USA John Sarkis, Digital Realty Trust, USA Mark Thiele, EVP Ecosystem Evangelis, SUPERNAP, USA

Ethernet Fiber Optic Cabling TrendsWednesday, 23 March, 16:00 – 17:00 Expo Theater II, Exhibit Hall B

ORGANIZER: Session organized by the Ethernet Alliance

MODERATOR: Doug Coleman, Manager of Technology and Standards, Corning, USA

This Ethernet Alliance panel will discuss the latest trends in Ethernet fiber optic cabling. From structured cabling with low-loss connectivity to 400GbE cabling, the panel will explore the latest trends in cabling with a focus on connector loss and how cabling affects the optical module standards.

SPEAKERS:Paul Kolesar, Engineering Fellow, CommScope, USA Greg McSorley, Technical Business Development Manager, Amphenol, USA Brett Lane, Director of Technology, Panduit, USA

A Rational Assessment of 400G Ethernet Thursday, 24 March, 10:30 – 2:00 Expo Theater I, Exhibit Hall C

MODERATOR: Julie Eng, Executive Vice President, Datacom Engineering, Finisar, USA

This panel takes a close look at the current architecture, economics, applications and uncertainties surrounding 400G Ethernet. Work to define a 400 Gbit/s Ethernet standard is well under way and various 400GbE optical architectures are being debated. While solutions to make 400GbE work are on the horizon from a technical perspective, the declining costs of 100GbE present those in pursuit of this faster technology with a moving target for commercial success. This panel seeks to examine the possible technical approaches and realistic timelines for successful introduction of 400GbE in volume, or discuss niche applications that provide this nascent

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technology with a foothold for significant production. This panel is aimed to discuss when 400GE will be available for deployment and what are the challenges.

SPEAKERS:Chris Cole, Director, Transceiver Engineering, Finisar, USA Scott Kipp, Director of Engineering, Brocade, USA

The Impact of Mega Data Centers on the Industry Supply ChainThursday, 24 March, 11:00 – 12:30 Expo Theater III, Exhibit Hall A

MODERATOR:Vladimir Kozlov, Founder and CEO, LightCounting Market Research, USA

Unprecedented demand for servers, switches and optical connectivity in mega data centers created a whole new market segment and restructured the industry supply chain in 2010-2015. Has this restructuring been completed by now or is it just the beginning? It is possible that Amazon, Google and Microsoft have already made most of their impact on the industry by now and it will be up to the other operators of mega data venters to lead the industry development?

SPEAKERS:Yuval Bachar, Principal Engineer, Global Infrastructure Architecture and Strategy, LinkedIn, USA Osa Mok, CMO, Innolight Technology Corp., USA Chongjin Xie, Ph.D., Chief Optical Network Architect, Alibaba Group, USA

Sanity check — Where are we on 25GE and 50GE? Thursday, 24 March, 12:30 – 14:00 Expo Theater I, Exhibit Hall C

MODERATOR: Daryl Inniss, Director, New Business Development, OFS, USA

In July 2014, as a cost-cutting measure, Microsoft spearheaded the effort to push 25G and 50G devices for server connections within the data center. The first products are supposedly expected in early 2016. Some of the questions addressed in this panel will include:

• What is a realistic timeframe for commercial availability of components and when will they be actually used in networks?

• What percentage of these connections will be copper versus optical?

• What will be the key use cases for both data rates? What will be the impact on 10G/40G markets?

• Where is the business case for the rest of the vendors? If it turns out that 400GE is not around the corner in terms of significant deployment, is there really a necessity for 50GE?

SPEAKERS:Samuel Liu, Director, Product Line Management, Juniper, USA Siddharth Sheth, VP, Networking BU, InPhi, USA Rob Stone, Technical Director, Broadcom Ltd., USA Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu, Molex, USA

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Data Center Networking 101 (SC359)Sunday, 20 March, 9:00 – 13:00

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Beginner

INSTRUCTORS: Cedric Lam and Hong Liu, Google, USA

This introductory course starts with a review of the network transformations resulting from the rise of Internet computing applications. It reviews the architectural structures of warehouse-scale computers (WSCs) and the networking technologies used to implement WSC datacenters. This course covers both intra-datacenter and inter-datacenter networks, the challenges facing datacenter operators in the next 3 to 4 years, the need for energy efficient datacenter networking technologies and the desirable optical networking technologies to sustain the growth of Internet computing applications.

Link Design for Short Reach Optical Interconnects (SC428)Sunday, 20 March, 9:00 – 12:00

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Beginner

INSTRUCTOR: Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Research, USA

The primary objective of this course is to provide the participants with an introductory knowledge in link design. We will discuss the possible approaches to link design and go in depth over the individual link penalties and losses and noises. The course includes in-depth coverage of signal propagation in multimode fibers (laser launch conditions, fiber DMD), effects of various signal dependent types of noise (mode partition noise, modal noise, relative intensity noise) and their impact on the link performance. We will include discussion of connector effects (mode

For complete details on objectives and instructor biographies visit: ofcconference.org/shortcourse

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mixing). We will also discuss the measurement methodologies used to specify the modern multimode fibers and sources operating at 850nm and advanced modulation formats (PAM-4, DMT) and their applicability to short optical interconnects.

Building Green Networks: New Concepts for Energy Reduction (SC372)Sunday, 20 March, 17:00 – 20:00

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Beginner

INSTRUCTOR: Rod S. Tucker, Univ. Melbourne, Australia

This short course provides an introduction and overview of energy efficiency in communications networks. The course will look at trends (past and future), challenges and opportunities presented by the evolution to energy-efficient telecommunications. Topics covered include: growth of ICT and its power consumption, sustainability implications of ICT growth, modelling network power consumption, power consumption of equipment (Access networks: Wireless, PON, FTTN, HFC and Point-to-Point, Edge and Metro networks, Core networks: Terrestrial and submarine), power consumption of equipment (IP Routers — edge and core, switches-Ethernet, MPLS and TDM, cross connect, add/drop multiplexer, multi-layer switches (GMPLS), transmission systems, OLTs and ONUs, equipment for cloud services, equipment power consumption trends in time evolution and traffic load dependence and Improving energy efficiency using architectures, protocols and technologies.

SDN Standards and Applications (SC430)Monday, 21 March, 9:00 – 12:00

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Beginner

INSTRUCTOR: Lyndon Y. Ong, Ciena, USA Raghu Ranganathan, Ciena, USA

This course explains SDN for optical networks, starting with the basics of distributed control plane protocols and new ideas that have led to the interest in more centralized SDN architecture. SDN’s basic 3 layer architecture has the potential to truly open up optical network control to dynamic new applications that can run over a diverse multi-vendor network infrastructure. The course discusses OpenFlow, its transition from a Stanford research project to an industry standard defined by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and its extensions for transport technologies such as Carrier Ethernet, OTN and Wireless Transport. The course reviews the different Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) that are building on the SDN concept, such as ONF, OIF and IETF, and compare and contrast the different approaches to SDN in each group. It will discuss the status of implementation and prototyping of SDN interfaces and some of the potential stumbling blocks to deployment in carrier networks. Finally, the course will review some of the new developments in SDN such as the work in ONF on Information Modeling and on the Intent-based Interface.

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The Evolution of Network Architecture Towards Cloud-centric Applications (SC386)Monday, 21 March, 13:30 – 16:30

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Advanced Beginner

INSTRUCTOR: Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

This short course covers the interplay between intra- and inter- data center network architectures, systems, and IP and photonics technology innovation in the actual evolution (past, current and future) of the public and private cloud-centric network infrastructure. It reviews the current and emerging “cloud-centric” service delivery models and evaluates the functional characteristics and challenges in the associated network architectures. It reviews important and promising photonics technologies and converged IP and WDM architectures that have increasingly been adopted to address the transport network needs. Future network evolution, like SDN and NFV, emerging standards and related research topics will also be discussed.

Photonic Technologies in the Datacenter (SC431)Monday, 21 March, 13:30 – 16:30

SHORT COURSE LEVEL: Advanced Beginner

INSTRUCTOR: Clint Schow, University of California, USA

This course discusses and details the photonic technologies that are used to connect datacenters. Data center optical interconnects are extremely interesting since they blur the line between traditional datacom and telecom links. The reach requirements, from meters to up to around two kilometers for intra data center connections, require new approaches to meet aggressive cost, power, and density requirements. Furthermore, the use of optics in datacenters is rapidly evolving due to both advances in technologies as well as system architectures that drive the adoption of new solutions. The advantages and limitations of technologies, including VCSELs, Si Photonics, and InP platforms will be discussed to provide insight into how systems are wired today and how the future may evolve. Leading edge research efforts aimed at enabling greater proliferation of photonics, including both interconnects and optical switching fabrics will be examined. A focus will be placed on opportunities for new technologies and architectures to radically change the trajectory of system design and implementation.

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Registration CategoriesFull Conference

Registration* Exhibit Pass Plus**

Advance Registration thru 22 February 2016

Member ***NonmemberStudent Member ***Student Nonmember

$650$815$190$230

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Registration after 22 February 2016

Member ***NonmemberStudent Member ***Student Nonmember

$770$945$270$345

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Plenary Session • •

Technical Sessions and Rump Session •

Exhibition and Show Floor Programming • •

Market Watch • •

Service Provider Summit • •

Online Job Fair • •

Sunday and Monday Workshops • •

Poster Sessions • •

Tuesday’s Conference Reception •

Conference Program Book •

Technical Digest on USB Drive •

Postdeadline Papers Book •

Exhibits 2016 Buyers’ Guide • •

* Full conference registration fees are listed in U.S. dollars.** The Exhibits Pass Plus is not for use by technical program presiders, poster presenters, or speakers.*** Member of The Optical Society, IEEE Communications Society or IEEE Photonics Society.

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REGISTRATION: TRAINING COURSES Each Short Course requires a separate registration fee. Advance registration is suggested as each course has limited seating. There will not be a wait list for sold out courses. Tickets are required for admission to Short Courses and for Short Course Notes, which are distributed on-site. Short Course Notes are not available for purchase separately.

Short Course registration also includes admission to the plenary session, exhibit hall, Market Watch, Service Provider Summit, the Online Job Fair, workshops, poster sessions and Exhibits 2016 Buyers’ Guide.

Advance Registration thru 22/02/16*

Registration after 22/02/16*

Short Course Member $270 $325

Short Course Nonmember $340 $400

(Hands-on) Member $325 $375

(Hands-on) Nonmember $400 $470

* Short Course registration fees are listed in U.S. dollars.

FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION In addition to the world’s leading Exhibition in optical networking and communications, OFC has a world-class technical program featuring over 520 peer-reviewed technical presentations and more than 120 invited experts in the field. If you are interested in expanding your learning, consider registering for the Full Conference (registration fee required).

Hear from the industry’s luminaries, business leaders and innovators in special sessions at OFC on topics such as data center architectures, data center interconnection (DCI) optical technologies, SDN, Ethernet progression in data center networks and much more.

Learn more about OFC’s comprehensive technical program. ofcconference.org/technicaldatacenter

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location

Anaheim Convention Center800 West Katella AvenueAnaheim, California, 92802 USA

22 – 24 March 2016Exhibit and Show Floor Activities

20 – 24 March 2016Technical Conference

22 February 2016Advance Registration Deadline (23:59 EST)

26 February 2016Hotel Reservation Deadline

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