Ognjen Jovanovic explores future fiber MAC designs at OFC 2025
Session will examine IEEE and ITU-T fiber access standards, scalability beyond 100Gbit/s, advanced PONs and network convergence strategies
- Speakers: Ognjen Jovanovic, senior engineer of advanced technology at Adtran; Philippe Chanclou, team manager of the Fixed Access Networks unit at Orange; Frank Effenberger, fellow at Futurewei Technologies; Zhensheng Jia, fellow at CableLabs; Ryo Koma, NTT; Mark Laubach, systems design architecture engineer at Ciena; Bhushan Padhiar, principal member of technical staff at AT&T; Yue Sun, China Unicom
- Topics: Crafting fiber access networks for service excellence assurance
- When: Tuesday, April 1, 4:30 p.m. PT
- Where: OFC, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/
Fiber access networks must continuously evolve to support rapidly increasing data rates, service demands and user expectations. With emerging applications pushing networks beyond 50Gbit/s – and soon, past the 100Gbit/s mark – operators face complex decisions about system design, protocol standards, scalability and seamless convergence of multiple access services within a single infrastructure.
In this session, Ognjen Jovanovic joins a panel of industry experts who will explore the intricacies of designing robust access networks, focusing on IEEE and ITU-T MAC designs, advanced resource allocation strategies like dynamic bandwidth allocation and wavelength division multiplexing, and critical protocol extensions. They will also address interoperability and the evolution of PON technology.