Service Providers
Mark Your Calendar to Attend OFC/NFOEC This March!

Why Should Services Providers Attend OFC/NFOEC
Kathy Tse, AT&T, Optical Network Applications and Services, Subcommittee Chair
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA, Program Chair
Hot Topic - Wireline-Wireless Networking
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA, OFC/NFOEC General Chair
Discover the latest innovations and practical solutions to your rapidly expanding bandwidth and network cost challenges.
Learn, Network, Make Connections, Do Business
OFC /NFOEC attracts over 11,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors from over 65 countries. At OFC /NFOEC you will learn about new products, services and industry trends, meet potential customers and do business. Attend comprehensive educational programming presented by experienced industry speakers and take advantage of valuable networking opportunities.
The Service Provider Summit is open to all Conference Attendees and Exhibits Pass Plus Attendees!
Join your colleagues for this dynamic program with topics and speakers of interest to CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists within the service provider and carrier sector. The program includes panel discussions, a keynote presentation, exhibit time and networking time. Read more about the summit sessions.
If phone vendors can make money from applications running on their devices, why can service providers not make money from applications running on their networks.
Your FREE Exhibits Pass Plus offers you:
- World-Class Exposition–Over 500 Exhibitors! Discover the latest innovations and practical solutions to deploying next-gen networks. See the latest in switches, IP, LAN and how these and other applications can be integrated with fiber networks. Mobile Labs, powered by Ciena, Nokia Siemens, Huawei and Infinera, will be featured on the show floor and offer you a hands-on experience.
- Valuable Networking Opportunities! Discuss fiber challenges with industry experts. Share ideas for optimizing networks, and get solutions to meet the bandwidth demands of new content. 11,000 attendees from around the world will be at OFC /NFOEC this March.
- Free Educational Programming! Learn about industry trends, emerging opportunities, and new products and services. Attend the Service Provider Summit, and other free programming by leading industry organizations.
- Key insights for maximizing the value of your growing fiber network and assets!
OFC/NFOEC Cloud Computing Program Highlights
- Cloud Computing as a Service - Stuart Elby, Verizon (Included in Your Free Exhibits Pass Plus)
- New Short Course! SC374 Cloud Computing and Dynamic Networks - George Clapp, Telcordia Technologies, USA; Douglas Freimuth, IBM Research, USA (Not Included in Exhibits Pass Plus, Extra Fee Required)
- Presentations
- NTh4E.1 - New Avenues of Revenues: Open Access and Infrastructure Virtualization
- OW1A.1 - Network Virtualization: A Tutorial
- OM2G.4 - Energy-Efficient Demand Provisioning in the Cloud
- JTh2A.33 - Free-running L-band VCSEL for 1.25 Gbps hybrid radio-fiber cloud optical interconnects
- OW1A.3 - Stochastic Virtual Infrastructure Planning in Elastic Cloud Deploying Optical Networking
- JTh2A.41 - Optical FlowVisor: An OpenFlow-based Optical Network Virtualization Approach