Prayson Pate looks ahead to a decade of virtualization with IEEE conference virtual panel

• Panel: Stephan Rettenberger, SVP, marketing and investor relations, ADVA; Brad Booth, principal engineer, Microsoft; Roderick Dottin, optical network architecture, Orange Business Services; Sterling Perrin, Heavy Reading (moderator)
• Topic: New revenue-generating opportunities for optical networks
• When: Wednesday, August 12, 10 a.m. ET (4 p.m. CEST)
  
• Where: Free webcast – Next-Gen Optical Network & Data Centre Connect Digital Symposium Day 2: http://spr.ly/6012GgpW8
  

Much of the optics focus centers on lowering cost per bit, but technology innovation also enables differentiated and brand new types of services. Examples of these include SDN control, machine learning, and artificial intelligence software coupled with hardware innovations like programmable DSPs, and all are enablers for a new era of optical and packet-optical services.

Join Stephan Rettenberger and the panel to explore new optical networking business opportunities as well as the associated applications and underlying innovations that are making them possible .