Optoplex Corporation proudly announces that its chief technology officer, Dr. Jay Hsieh, has been invited as a speaker at one of this year's OFC/NFOEC workshops, entitled Low-Cost ROADM: Wavelength Switching vs Tunable Filters, to be held on Monday, March 6 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA.

The ROADM market is the fastest growing segment of the resurgent optical networking market, as recently claimed by Infonetics Research. This workshop will provide opportunities to discuss and debate the latest reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technologies which enable remote traffic provisioning at the wavelength level in network nodes. These latest technologies allow the network operators to increase system efficiency and reduce operating expenses. Previously, ROADM deployment has been limited due to its initial costs. Under the scope of this workshop, industry experts will focus on two general technology categories: 1) The relatively simple, high performance, low cost, single-channel ROADM, based on tunable filters as currently produced by Optoplex; and 2) the more comprehensive and expensive counterparts, wavelength-selective switches.

We welcome ROADM users such as system integrators and equipment suppliers to attend the workshop and/or arrange individual discussion session with Optoplex at nearby meeting suites reserved by Optoplex.

For more information, please write to info@optoplex.com or call (510) 490-9930.