Close to the Edge: Fibre for any-haul in 5G access networks
Date: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Time: 14:00 (CET) Online
Speakers:
– Dr. DeChao Zhang, China Mobile
– Andrew Lord, Senior Manager of Optical Research at BT.
– Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, LightCounting Market Research
– David Binder, Business Development Manager Data Networking, Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland
– Stefan Dahlfort, Product Development Leader, Ericsson
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About this webinar
The webinar will bring together key companies that are influencing the direction of the technology, products, and manufacturing. The goal is to review what is hot and topical today but also with a view on the next 5-10 years as enablers to maintain competitiveness in the segment. Included will be perspectives on standards/MSA as well as the market environment.
Already, we are seeing key metrics such as high volume, integration, low power consumption, high speed, electronic enhancement and support of photonics (coding, FEC, dispersion, timing etc) with DSPs to name a few; become important to all stakeholders up and down the value chain of the industry. Further, as everything advances as we would expect, the make-up and nature of the industry will evolve quickly and these webinars will review not only the technology perspective but also how the industry can meet future challenges and opportunities over the next decade.
We will complete the webinar with a panel session of the speakers and provide thoughtful questions by the moderator/session chair on issues both today and in the near future.
Speakers
 Andrew Lord, Senior Manager of Optical Research at BTAndrew joined BT in 1985 after a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He has worked on a wide range of optical network systems, including long haul subsea and terrestrial DWDM. He currently heads BT’s optical research including quantum communications. He has published over 100 research papers. He was General Chair for the Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2017 in Los Angeles. He is Visiting Professor at Essex University, a Senior Member of IEEE and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Lightwave Technology. He won the BT Martlesham Medal in 2018. He is project manager for the EU Metro-Haul Project |
 Stefan Dahlfort, Product Development Leader, EricssonStefan has worked in the telecom industry for more than 25 years. He worked at an incumbent telecom operator and founded a start-up before joining Ericsson in 2007 as a manager for fiber to the x research. Having held different management positions in Research and Networks Systems & Technology in the transport area, he is now based in Santa Clara in Silicon Valley as a product development leader. He holds an M.Sc.in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in optical networking from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. |
 Dr. DeChao Zhang, China MobileDr. DeChao Zhang is Fellow of China Mobile Research Institute, principle researcher, technical manager of transmission and access network, department of network and IT technology, experienced in optical transport and access, including in OTN/WDM, PTN/SPN, PON and time synchronization. Act as ITU-T editor, ORAN WG9 co-chair, published more than 20 papers, obtained several provincial-level prizes. |
David Binder, Business Development Manager Data Networking, Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland |
As an advisor to startups, service providers, vendors, and the investment community, he helps clients identify new market opportunities, as well as provides due diligence and advises on positioning, product development, business plans, and M&A activity. A highly sought thinker and speaker, Mr. Téralis quoted in prestigious publications such as The Economist, Le Monde, Les Echos, L’Usine Nouvelle, Barron’s, and The Wall Street Journal, and chairs and presents at events worldwide, including Carrier Network Virtualization, Brooklyn 5G Summit, 5G World and Self Organizing Networks World and Telco AI Summit. He has been a frequent expert judge for industry and technology innovation awards, such as the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Telco AI Summit, and 5G World. In 2006, he joined Infonetics Research, now IHS Markit/Informa Tech. Previously, he was with analyst firm RHK, where he developed their European optical coverage and helped carriers migrate from PSTN to next-generation networks. Prior to RHK, he was an R&D engineer and project manager with Alcatel, where he deployed the CATV optical networks that allowed the 1992 Olympics and the grand opening of Euro Disney to be televised using fiber optics for the first time. Stéphane Téral was a McGowan Scholar at the McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco, United States, where he received his MBA, and has an engineering degree in telecommunications from Télécom Sud Paris now known as the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. |
Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, LightCounting Market ResearchPresentation summary
BT – Andrew Lord, Senior Manager of Optical Research at BT
5G is already happening, but we all hope that the technology will form the bedrock for exciting new applications, requiring more than just high bandwidth. My talk will compare optical transport solutions for macro and micro cells including optical point-multi-point architectures like WDM PON or the new XR technology. I will also describe integration with future edge data center functions. I will show how a dynamic end-to-end control plane will be essential. Finally I will discuss the potential impact of newly developed Hollow Core Fibre to ease latency requirements.
LightCounting Market Research – Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst
This presentation will look at the implications of 5G on transport networks and particularly why fiber is becoming more important. It will cover 3GPP splits leading to fronthaul and mid-haul; open RAN, vRAN and open vRAN; emerging technologies such as integrated access backhaul (IAB), which was standardized in 3GPP’s Release 16 as well as developing trends in disaggregation from cell site gateways and routers all the way to core routers.
Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland GmbH – David Binder, Business Development Manager Data Networking
In the global 5G rollout, both technical and geopolitical factors apply. A 5G front-end unit may have a different hardware spec in China than in the EU. Narrowed down to the pluggable I/O transceiver interface we expect SFP(x) to dominate in the EU, and NGSFP in China. Yamaichi Electronics developed a “one fits all” pluggable I/O host connector, complying with SFP(x), DSFP and NGSFP – aiming to seize the combined quantity potential of the Chinese and European roll out. In this webinar, we would like to introduce our host connector, which is backwards compatible, cross-compliant and future ready up to 112G-PAM4/Ch
Ericsson – Stefan Dahlfort, Product Development Leader
Authors: (Ericsson) Stefan Dahlfort, Antonio Tartaglia, Fabio Cavaliere, David Sinicrope, (Nokia) Ole Reinartz, Francois Fredricx, Lieven Levrau, Ronald Heron
As more 5G spectrum is being unlocked and the number of live networks globally are well above 100, it’s critical to focus on the right optical solutions and the right time and cost for the evolving radio access networks and accompanying transport systems. This talk will outline the key requirements and some of the most important deployment use cases, called mobile optical blueprints, with the optical pluggables as the key building blocks. The case is made that this approach allows the industry to better focus its efforts.