Below is a summary of where you can see Acacia speaking and showcasing its technology at the show.

Acacia Experts Discuss the Latest Trends and Technologies

Sunday, March 24^th

Are Coherent Transceivers About to Experience a Bandwidth Crunch?
Speaker: Long Chen
Time: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Where: Room 6E

Coherent Optics for Next Generation 100G/200G PON: Single-Carrier or Multi-Carrier?
Speaker: Tom Williams
Time: 400 – 6:30 pm
Where: Room 6E

Monday, March 25^th

Executive Forum at OFC 2024
Status of Photonic-enabled Modules and Interconnects
Speaker: Tom Williams
Time: 10:45 – 12:00 pm
Where: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel

Tuesday, March 26^th

Data Center Summit Panel II: Lowering Power Consumption in Optical Solutions
Organizer: Tom Williams
Time: 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Where: Theater II

Wednesday, March 27^th

CableLabs: Empowering Access Networks with Coherent Optics
Speaker: Tom Williams
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 pm
Where: Theater II

Coherent Optics Unleashed: From 400ZR Success to 800ZR/LR Advancements and 1600ZR Kick-off
Speaker: Tom Williams
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Where: Theater I

10 Years of Coherent DWDM Pluggables: Past, Present and Future 
Speaker: Christian Rasmussen
Time:  3:00 – 4:00 pm
Where: 3E

Acacia Accepted Papers

M3I. Transmission Optimization
Title: Optical Network Design with High Symbol Rate Flexible Coherent
Transceivers
Acacia Authors: Philippe Jennevé, Valeria Arlunno
Date/Time: Monday, March 25, 2024; 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Where: Room 7

W3H. Large Capacity Interconnect
Title: Real-Time 1.2Tb/s Large Capacity DCI Transmission
Acacia Authors: Hongbin Zhang, Shaoliang Zhang, Timo Pfau, Ahmed Awadalla, Mehmet Aydinlik, Jonas Geyer
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024; 3:00 pm– 3:15 pm
Where: Room 6F

OIF Interoperability Participation

OIF Interoperability Demo, Booth #1323 – Featuring breakthrough solutions in speed, power and density to meet the growing demands of next-generation data center networking, AI/ML and disaggregation applications. Don’t miss interoperability demonstrations using Acacia’s QSFP-DD 400ZR and Bright 400ZR+ modules (including OpenROADM/ITU-T mode transmission), as well as multi-vendor management demonstrations through Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS).

Meet with Acacia at OFC
If you are attending the show, we welcome the opportunity to meet with you. Click here to request a meeting.  We hope to see you in San Diego!

400G Pluggables Enter Deployment Phase
We are now seeing our service provider and hyperscaler customers preparing for an aggressive ramp to 400G services in the second half of 2021. They see significant opportunities to use coherent optics in switches and routers to simplify architectures and achieve reductions in CapEx and OpEx. In the last 6 months, there have been trial and testing announcements from Windstream Wholesale , Telia Carrier, and Colt highlighting the use of 400G pluggables in a carrier network environment. More recently, ADVA announced interoperability of Acacia’s high-performance coherent platform in a QSFP-DD form factor with ADVA’s new DCI OLS, providing DCI networks a clear path to a compact and cost-efficient optical layer assembled with best-in-class innovation. The success of these ongoing trials and tests have demonstrated the architectural benefits that 400G pluggables can provide to cloud data center interconnect (DCI) and service provider network operators.

Going Further Faster with High-Performance Embedded Solutions
Demand for high-performance embedded solutions continues to climb as network operators look for solutions that improve efficiency and maximize capacity utilization while reducing network cost.

To meet these requirements, next generation embedded coherent solutions should be able to maximize spectral efficiency and include features such as 150GHz-wide channels that double the channel bandwidth of current 75GHz. A 150GHz channel plan is important for accommodating higher aggregate baud rates (128Gbaud and beyond) that can expand 400G capacity over a much greater distance compared to 64Gbaud.

With their ability to operate beyond 100Gbaud, next-generation embedded solutions can allow network operators to evolve their networks to meet growing bandwidth demands, without sacrificing reach or stranding network bandwidth when migrating from current-generation solutions. SiPh opto-electronic integration and packaging are important tools for delivering this increased performance and functionality in the future.

Today, solutions such as Acacia’s Pico-based, AC1200 1.2 Terabit coherent optical module are meeting the needs of many markets including cloud, metro, long-haul, and submarine network applications by providing high performance and flexibility features required to address these demanding requirements.  In fact, the AC1200 module is deployed in more than one hundred networks around the globe and adopted by three of the four largest hyperscalers.

Coherent in Access Networks
The wired and wireless network infrastructure supporting today’s aggregated residential customer traffic and enterprise business services is driving bandwidth capacity higher than legacy infrastructure can support based on traditional optical transmission technology. While direct-detect solutions in service provider edge and access links encounter capacity and reach limitations, coherent technology can bridge the gap to higher bandwidth and longer distances on any deployed fiber type. Coherent also provides an operationally simple solution and comes in a range of form factors, such as QSFP-DD and CFP2, to address different network applications for cable, 5G wireless X-haul and enterprise services such as single-transmission P2P links, DWDM links, and single-fiber BiDi links. Read more in this white paper.

Come See us During OFC
This year we are excited to be participating in 6 panels that cover some of the key trends mentioned.

Here’s the full line up of Acacia speakers at this year’s show. On behalf of all our speakers below, we hope to see you there virtually.

• Status of Optoelectronics Multi-chip Modules in Acacia, Long Chen
  Sunday, June 6, 2021 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
• Market Watch Panel III: Terabit WDM Channels: Beyond 100GBaud Operation, Tom Williams
  Tuesday, June 8 14:30 – 16:00 PDT
• Challenges of Coherent Transponders Approaching the Shannon Limit, Christian Rasmussen
  Tuesday, June 8, 2021 14:00 PM – 16:00 PM PDT
• Next Generation Optical Interfaces, an IEEE and Industry Update, Tom Williams
  Wednesday, June 9 13:30 – 14:30 PDT
• 400ZR Deployment and What’s Next – an OIF Update, Tom Williams
  Friday, June 11 11:30 – 13:00 PDT
• Silicon Photonic Based Stacked Die Assembly for 4×200-Gbit/s Short-Reach Transmission, Ying Zhao
  Friday, June 11 6:00 AM PDT

Acacia will have a virtual booth (#1041) during the show, which you can access at this link.  We look forward to virtually meeting with our customers, partners, and suppliers.  We are also excited that this is Acacia’s first year participating as part of Cisco. You can find their virtual booth (#1441) at this link.

If you are attending the show virtually and want to connect, we’d welcome the opportunity to meet with you. Click here to set up a meeting with Acacia spokespeople.

March 11-15, 2018, Acacia Communications will join the industry’s brightest thought leaders in optical fiber communication at the 2018 Optical Networking and Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) at the San Diego Convention Center. It’s a great opportunity to discuss what is driving next-generation technology and innovation within the optical communications space.

Our presence at OFC 2018 will be stronger than ever. Members of our team will facilitate sessions covering topics such as coherent for shorter reach applications, 400G and beyond, and silicon integration.

We think one of the hot topics at the show will be coherent evolving to shorter distances inside the data center.  As an example, cloud architectures are evolving and driving demand for high-capacity optical interconnects between data centers. Hear our own Chris Doerr’s take on the issue at the “Rump Session: When will Coherent Replace Direct Detection in the Data Center?”

Additionally, this year Acacia will be sponsoring Theater III at the OFC conference, which will host presentations and panels throughout the conference including our panel session on Wednesday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. titled Next Generation Coherent: Architectures and Technologies.  The session will feature Jörg-Peter Elbers, SVP at ADVA, Tad Hofmeister, Network Architect with Google and our own Chris Doerr and Christian Rasmussen.  The panel will be moderated by Acacia’s Tom Williams.

For a full run down of when and where our team is speaking, check out the schedule below.

Sunday, March 11

• 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Markus Weber, senior director of product lifecycle management, will participate in a workshop on “DSP for Short Reach and Client Optics – What Makes Sense?”
• 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Benny Mikkelsen, founder and chief technology officer, will present a short course on “100 Gb/s and Beyond Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs.”
• 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Chris Doerr, associate vice president of integrated photonics, will present a short course on “Highly Integrated Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits.”
• 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. – Christian Rasmussen, founder and vice president of digital signal processing and optics, will be participating in a workshop titled “When Will We Need to Scale the Fiber Capacity? What is the Realistic Approach?”
• 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. – Hongbin Zhang, principal DSP designer, will participate in a workshop on “Field Trials: Is It Make or Break for Innovative Technologies.”
• 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. – BinBin Guan, optical engineer in silicon photonics, will host a Lab Automation Hackathon

Monday, March 12

• 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Tom Williams, senior director of marketing, will be on the panel for “400G Optics for Hyper Scale Data Centers”
• 11:10 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. – Benny Mikkelsen will speak on Panel 2: Silicon in Photonics – More than Silicon Photonics! at the 2018 OIDA Executive Forum

Tuesday, March 13

• 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. – Chris Doerr will present at the “Rump Session: When will Coherent Replace Direct Detection in the Data Center?”

Wednesday, March 14

• 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. – Chris Doerr, Christian Rasmussen and Tom Williams will present a show floor program in Theater III entitled “Next Generation Coherent: Architectures and Technologies.”

Thursday, March 15

• 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. – Christian Rasmussen to present an invited paper entitled “Power Efficient DSP and Optical Integration”
• 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. – Tom Williams will present in a show floor program in Theater II on “400G Coherent: What Does it Mean to You?”

We look forward to hearing insightful perspectives and sharing our thoughts on these topics. Join us! Registration is still open.

If you are interested in meeting with Acacia during the conference, please contact marketing@acacia-inc.com.  We hope to see you there!