Jim Zou explores coherent optics and IPoWDM advancements at ACP/IPOC 2024
Presentation will discuss the impact of coherent pluggables for IPoWDM, revealing their transformative role across DCI and metro networks
- Speakers: Jim Zou, senior manager of global business development at Adtran
- Topics: Coherent pluggable evolution enabling IPoWDM from DCI to metro
- When: Tuesday, November 5, 11 a.m. CST
- Where: Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) and International Conference on Information Photonics and Optical Communications (IPOC) 2024, Hyatt Regency Beijing Wangjing, Beijing, China https://www.acpconf.com
IP over WDM (IPoWDM) allows IP data to be directly transmitted over optical networks without needing multiple conversion layers. This simplifies network architecture, reduces latency and enhances efficiency by minimizing hardware requirements and energy consumption. Advances in miniaturization, power efficiency and modulation techniques have made high-performance coherent optics a key technology that enables flexible and efficient IPoWDM architectures.
In this session, Jim Zou will explore the evolution of high-performance pluggable optics and their role in enabling IPoWDM from DCI to metro networks. He will explain how coherent technology incorporates advanced digital signal processing to transform open and disaggregated optical transport and how the industry is adopting this solution beyond its original data center interconnect use case to support more sophisticated metro networks.