ECOC Exhibition 2024 Highlights Video
ECOC Exhibition Attendee statistics at a glance
ECOC Exhibition 2024 travelled to Frankfurt in Germany from 23-25 September and was once again a huge success, welcoming over
330 exhibitors and 7,884 visitors, including 1,800 conference delegates from 82 countries.
Our biggest Market Focus timetable to date with 54 presentations, attracted even more visitors than ever to listen to our speaker line up including three panel sessions, from some of the top names in the industry, as well as 21 Product Focus sessions featuring in-depth sessions from Open XR Forum, EPIC, IPEC, IOWN Global Forum and ITU.
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Catch up with slides from some of the Market Focus and Product Focus sessions.
Hear what our visitors and exhibitors thought of ECOC Exhibition 2024
2024 Attendee statistics
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That’s a wrap on Day 3 of ECOC Exhibition 2024!
ECOC Exhibition 2024 continues today for the final day of networking, business and learning here in Frankfurt.
With a record-breaking delegate attendance and some of the most insightful Market Focus sessions, Product and FTTx Focus demos, and countless networking discussions throughout the three days of #ECOC24, our Frankfurt show comes to a close.
Thanks to our delegates, exhibitors, sponsors, staff and everyone else who made this year’s ECOC Exhibition such a landmark event yet again as the biggest names and most influential thought leaders connected for Europe’s premier optical communications event.
Stay tuned for more details about 2025’s ECOC Exhibition, taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and be sure to continue tagging and engaging with us across social media!
Market Focus Wednesday What to Watch
1000 – Silicon Photonics operating at 1.6 Tbps in an Immersion Cooling Environment – Ronnen Lovinger, DustPhotonics
1100 – Energy Efficient Optics for Sustainable Scaling of AI Networks – Matt Sysak, Lumentum
1140 – Data Center Interconnects in the Era of AI – Dr Loi Nguyen, Marvell
1200 – Connections in AI Networks Inside the Data Center – Lisa Huff, Omdia
1215 – Panel Session: Linear Optics Comes of Age
1440 – IP over DWDM Mythbusters – Lorenzo Ghioni, Cisco
1540 – The need for speed: IP-optical integration with 800ZR/ZR+ – Dirk van den Borne, Juniper Networks
Product Focus Wednesday Highlights
1000 – The keys to seamless integrated photonics characterization – EXFO’s OPAL series of PIC testing solutions – Dr Francois Couny, EXFO
10:30 – EPIC TechWatch
13:10 – 50G PON – Technological enablers, application scenarios and deployments – Maxim Kuschnerov, Huawei Technologies
14:30 – IOWN Global Forum leading Open All-Photonic Network
15:10 – KD7251: Automotive Optical Multi-Protocol Transceiver – Rubén Pérez-Aranda, KD Approaching Shannon’s Limit
Visit FTTx Focus
The FTTx Focus area brings together the very latest fibre to the ‘x’ in a dedicated area, showcasing a range of products.
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Photos from Day 3
Welcome to Day 2 of ECOC Exhibition 2024!
ECOC Exhibition 2024 continues today for the second day of networking, business and learning here in Frankfurt. We will be updating this page with the very latest news, announcements and highlights from across the exhibition halls. If you have a press release, product launch or company announcement you would like included in our Exhibitor News section, please email us.
The exhibition opens again at 09:30 today, Tuesday 24th September. Read on to find out what’s on today.
Amid the bounty of engaging sessions spread throughout the day and the various products and demos populating the many stands, this year’s ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards ceremony took place today as the 2024 winners were crowned at a full Product Focus theatre.
High-calibre entries to this year’s programme represented the best achievements in advancing the business of optical communications and related technologies. Thanks to all involved!
Keep reading to discover our award winners, catch up on all the highlights from today and see what’s on tomorrow!
Guten morgen from Frankfurt! There’s so much on today at #ECOC24, as Michael Lebby told ECOC TV as the show opened for Day 2… ⬇️ 🏆 pic.twitter.com/H3yREgjU4N
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 24, 2024
Want to know what’s happening at Market Focus today? Let Michael Lebby tell you all about it… pic.twitter.com/7A8TRYlIz7
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 24, 2024
Want to know what’s happening at Market Focus today? Let Michael Lebby tell you all about it…
The ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards, in conjunction with @opconsnews , are starting soon! Head to the Product Focus theatre now to see the live awarding of trophies from 11.45 🏆 pic.twitter.com/WoCK3Uooiq
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 24, 2024
ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards Ceremony….meet some of our winners!
The award winners were announced live in the Product Focus theatre at 11.45 on Tuesday 24th September. Find out more about the awards, the shortlisted nominees and the winners!
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News from our exhibitors on Day 2
TRUMPF to present next-generation VCSEL devices for LPO and CPO at ECOC 2024
Demo Zone
The exhibition hall once again hosted the Demo Zone today, Tuesday 24th September, showcasing a variety of live demonstrations
Market Focus Tuesday Top Sessions
10:00 – Advances in Optical Components for Datacom and Telecom Transceivers – Julie Eng, Coherent
11:00 – Quantum dot lasers at 300 mm for silicon photonics and datacentre optical interconnect applications – Ben Stevens, IQE
12:00 – 100G PAM4 Analog CDR for SFP112 modules – enabling 6G front haul architecture – Raza Khan, Semtech
13:00 – Is the Future of LiDAR still so bright you have to wear shades? – Chris Phare, Voyant
15:40 – Panel session: Next gen networking optics like 1.6 or 3.2T
Product Focus Tuesday Highlights
10:00 – The Open XR Forum Industry Update – Infinera Open XR Forum
11:45 – ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards Announcement
13:40 – Special Requirements for Optical Connectivity in AI – IPEC
15:30 – ITU-T SG15 – Standards update on higher speed PON, latest OTN technologies and interoperable optical interfaces – ITU
Hear the winners of the Industry Awards as they are announced live!
The awards will once again highlight significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibre-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments.
Awards ceremony: Tuesday 24th September from 11:45 in the Product Focus theatre in Hall 6.1
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Photos from Day 2
Welcome to Day 1 of ECOC Exhibition 2024!
We are pleased to welcome you to Frankfurt for ECOC Exhibition 2024. We will be updating this page with the very latest news, announcements and highlights from across the exhibition halls.
The exhibition opened at 09:30 today, Monday 23rd September for a full of day of networking, business and learning.
There is still time to register to join us.
At what might be the busiest ECOC Exhibition ever, thousands of delegates poured into the Messe from the streets of Frankfurt this morning as the premier optical connections event on the calendar began.
As attendees weaved their way through the exhibitor stands – which offer more demos and sights each year – they journeyed through the biggest names in the industry towards the Exhibition’s famous Focus theatres. Crowd-attracting presentations guaranteed that Market Focus in particular was standing-room only for most of the day.
Catch up on all of the highlights from today and preview tomorrow’s unmissable events below!
Welcome to #ECOC24! It’s a bustling start to Day 1 as we welcome delegates to Frankfurt ⬇️🎬 pic.twitter.com/xi0n25O8E0
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 23, 2024
The end of day networking is in full flow as we near the close of Day 1 at #ECOC24! 🥂 pic.twitter.com/ZGYL0k3FVR
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 23, 2024
Thanks to @CoherentCorp for giving ECOC TV a preview of the demos happening at stand A10 this week! 📽️ pic.twitter.com/R4yCoaglRL
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 23, 2024
ECOC TV spoke to Sanjai Parthasarathi from Coherent about the previews of the demos happening on their stand A10
Don’t miss the what’s on offer at the #ECOC24 booths 👀 pic.twitter.com/hA8Vnjn74a
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 23, 2024
Don’t miss the what’s on offer at the #ECOC24 booths
Have you seen this morning’s Market Focus talks? If you missed
Have you seen this morning’s Market Focus talks? If you missed @fibeReality’s Mark Lutkowitz give his presentation optical pluggables, hear him give a recap below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/b5SM6SXpi2
— ECOC Exhibition (@ECOC_Exhibition) September 23, 2024
Latest news from our exhibitors…
Ciena Unveils 1.6 Tb/s Coherent Pluggable Solution for Hyperscale Cloud Providers’ Capacity Surge
New – Advanced Benchtop Inspection Microscope
Polariton is Ready for 400G/lane
Expanding Capacity and Reach with a New Generation of Coherent Pluggables
HYC to Present Next-Gen Multi-Core Fiber and AI Data Center Connectivity at ECOC 2024
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Market Focus Monday must see!
Some the excellent presentations from the first day of ECOC Exhibition included:
10:00 – World class performance for 200Gbps PAM4 and 400Gbps PAM4 lanes from electro-optic polymer modulators – Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic Inc
11:20 – Optical Compute Interconnect: Integrated photonics for AI infrastructure scaling – Christian Urricariet, Intel
12:40 – Navigating Optical Parallelism: Comb Lasers or Laser Arrays for Next-Generation Interconnects – Frank Smyth. Pilot Photonics
13:20 – Coherent Optics in the Datacenter – Karl Gass, OIF
15:20 – Next generation of fiber access – Frank Effenberger, Futurewei Technologies
16:00 – Fireside chat: Optics or Copper… when and where? : Innovation that will drive networking in the data center – Jose Pozo, Optica, Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic Inc and David Welch, AttoTude
Product Focus Monday highlights
Some of the highlights from Product Focus’ Monday schedule included session from:
10:00 – IOWN Global Forum leading Open All-Photonic Network – Yoshitake Tajima (NTT), Lieven Levrau (Nokia), IOWN Global Forum
11:20 – Coherent Pluggable Technology Advancing Next Generation Optical Networks – Bo Zhang, Marvell
14:10 – 14:40 – Real-world applications and deployment scenarios of ICE-X Intelligent Coherent Pluggables – Fady Masoud, Infinera
16:10 – Augmented Silicon Photonics for demanding Data Center and AI/ML network – Yannick Paillard, Scintil
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