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Workshop
September 12, 2010
FTTH Council Conference
Las Vegas, NV
Agenda
The goal of the workshop is to discuss strategies for taking WDM-PON from its present state into a viable technology for widespread commercial deployment. The workshop’s purpose is to provide a forum for interested members of the WDM-PON community to share information and discuss the past, present, and especially the future of WDM-PON technology. The workshop has been organized by the WDM-PON Forum, and will take place in conjunction with the FTTH Council’s North America annual conference in Las Vegas, NV.
The workshop will be free of charge to attendees - Register NOW !!!
08:00 – 08:30 am Morning coffee, Welcome and Introduction, Bernd Hesse, LG-Ericsson
08:30 – 10:20 am Session: WDM PON market, Co-chairpersons: Gerlas van den Hoven, Genexis; Bernd Hesse, LG-Ericsson
• Joe Savage, FTTH council North America, president
• Jeff Heynen, INFONETICS RESEARCH, Inc.
• What’s “Next” in Next-generation Access Technologies, Giovanni Manto, LG Ericsson
• FTTH Technology and costs - Case studies, James Salter, AEG
• “WDM PON research: global activities and players”, Klaus Grobe, ADVA Optical Networking
10:20 – 10:45 am Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 pm Panel debate: WDM PON systems, Co-chairpersons: Stephan Neidlinger, ADVA; Stefan Murry, AOI
• “Is My Network Ready for WDM PON?”, Patrick Sims, ADC
• “Easy Migration to Next Generation with WDM-PON“, Hon Yi, Corecess
• „A general market and technology trends in FTTx access fields“, Shoichi Hanatani, Hitachi
• “Next Generation Optical Access: 1 Gbit/s for Everyone”, Volker Distelrath, Nokia Siemens Networks
• „Getting WDM-PON Economics right! Assessing the options for WDM-PON based multi-service access networks.“, Sten Nordell, Transmode
12:15 – 01:00 pm Lunch
01:00 – 03:00 pm Session: WDM PON technology, Chairperson: Johan Henaes, INS
• “Technology drivers in WDM-PON: A look at the components, comparison to GPON/XG-PON and the perception in the Marketplace”, Zulfikar Morbi, Applied Optoelectronics Inc.
• “Case Studies - Migration of Existing Network Architectures to WDM-PON”, Mark Carpenter, Cube Optics
• “WDM-PON Channel Plan Standardization”, Dario Falquier, Gemfire Corporation
• “C/L band WDM-PON devices”, Leo Byun, Luxpert Technologies Co., Ltd.
• “Commercially deployed FTTH video distribution system in Japan”, Hisao Yoshinaga, NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs.
• “Cost efficient AWG-based PON system”, Harlan Findley, Neophotonics
03:00 – 03:30 pm Coffee break
03:30 – 04:45 pm Panel discussion: WDM PON business drivers, Co-Chairpersons: Gerlas van den Hoven, Genexis; Craig Matsumoto, Lightreading
• “WDM-PON for cost-effective backhaul and business applications”, Stefan Dahlfort, Ericsson Inc
„Open access and how a WDM-PON architecture could fit in “,Andrew Afflerbach, Columbia Telecommunications Corporation
• “The View from a Green Field”, Mike Smeltzer, University of Illinois
• “FTTH Evolution: Beyond GPON”, Shweta Jain, Verizon
04:45 – 05:00 pm Workshop closing |
