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EVENT PREVIEW - ECOC
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) event organisers detail what to expect at this year’s show in Berlin
The 33rd annual European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) will take place on 16-20 September, 2007 at the Internationales Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin, Germany – Europe’s largest conference centre.
The event, expected to be a sell-out for the first time since the height of the telecoms boom in 2000, will feature over 300 exhibitors and a comprehensive speaker line-up, including some of the world’s leading technical developers, both commercial and academic, addressing key industry topics.
Confirmed speakers at the conference include: Gregory Raybon of Alcatel-Lucent – 100 Gbit/s: ETDM generation and long haul transmission; Biswanath Mukherjee of the Department of Computer Science, Univiversity of California Davis, USA – Optical Networks: The Road Ahead; and Russel Davey of BT – Long-reach Access and Future Broadband Network Economics.
Within the exhibition, seven of the world’s largest carriers, AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Group, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon, under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), will show the results of months of interoperability demonstrations.
“This is the first time that we have had service providers take part in the exhibition and this is a clear recognition of the rise of optical communications to become integral to all players in the telecom and datacoms sector,” says marketing manager, Simon Kears.
Also on the exhibition floor, visitors will be able to see and take part in a number of new, interactive features: The FTTx Resource centre, delivered by The Light Brigade, will be a focal point for all things FTTx; the ECOC Market Focus seminars will feature presentations from senior executives at JDSU, Bookham and a view on the European FTTH market from Heavy Reading’s Graham Finnie; the latest products will be showcased in the live demonstration area; and the CTTS will give free practical training courses in fusion splicing and fibre preparation tools.
Details: www.ecocexhibition2007.com
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