ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards
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Sep 04, 2024 07:56PM
Launched in 2020, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the event, ECOC introduced the ECOC Exhibition Industry Awards, in conjunction with Optical Connections.
The Awards return in 2024 and will once again highlight significant achievements in advancing the business of optical communications, transport, networking, fibre-based products, photonic integration circuits and related developments.
Awards ceremony: Tuesday 24th September from 11:45 in the Product Focus theatre
At Market Focus we attract the world’s leading technology companies to submit entries for the prestigious Market Focus Awards. In 2023, we noticed that many companies developing the last products, either announced their products at the ECOC Exhibition, or released information on them via Press Releases just a few days before the ECOC Exhibition started.
Starting in 2024, the Awards Committee are establishing a new competition of Post Deadline Awards where applicants can submit their entries in 2 broad value-chain categories:
Optical materials, components, packages, modules etc.
Optical Systems, networks, standards, architecture etc.
Post Deadline Awards will open on 2nd September (three weeks before ECOC Exhibition) and close on 16th September, one week before the event takes place. The winners will be announced live at the exhibition in the Product Focus theatre on Tuesday 24th September.
A key criteria for the Post Deadline Awards is ‘world class’ products and technology. Results need to demonstrate that the product or technology is clearly state-of-the-art and best-in-class.
Further details will be released and how to enter, will be released later in the year.
Timeline for Post-Deadline Awards: Nominations open 2nd September| Nominations close 16th September | Winners announced 24th September at ECOC in Frankfurt
We are pleased that the committee have now reviewed all nominations and we can announce the shortlist for each award.
The award winners will be announced live at Product Focus on Tuesday 24th September. Register now to join us at ECOC Exhibition this September in Frankfurt, Germany.
Best Fibre/ Fibre Component Product Award Shortlist: |
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Sumitomo Electric Europe Limited |
2C Z-PLUS Fiber ULL |
Teramount LTD |
TeraVERSE |
Formerica OptoElectronics Inc. |
OSFP 800G, QSFP-DD 400Gb and QSFP28 100Gb optical transceivers and sealed optical cables for immersion liquid cooling |
Data Centre Innovation/Best Product Award Shortlist: |
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Coherent Corp |
Coherent Datacenter Lightwave Cross-Connect (DLXTM) |
Huawei |
Huawei OptiXtrans DC908 Pro |
Ciena |
Waveserver |
Cadence Design Systems |
224G Long-Reach (224G-LR) SerDes PHY IP |
Most Innovative PON/5G/FTTx Product Award Shortlist: |
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China Mobile |
50G PON |
Infinera |
Infinera ICE-X 400G Single Fiber delivering High-Speed Business Services over existing PON |
Source Photonics |
Source Photonics 200Gb/s PAM4 based 800G and 1.6T Transceivers |
Most Innovative Product: Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical integration Platform Award Shortlist: |
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Lightwave Logic Inc |
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Avicena |
µLED-based interconnect technology |
POET Technologies |
POET Optical Interposer |
Most Innovative Product: Most Innovative Photonic Component Award Shortlist: |
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NewPhotonics |
NPG102 PIC Transmitter on Chip with integrated Optical Equalizer for LPO-based connectivity modules |
Coherent Corp |
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Huawei |
Huawei’s C+L Integrated WSS |
Most Innovative Product: Most Innovative Pluggable Transceiver/Co-Packaged Module Award Shortlist: |
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Marvell |
Marvell® COLORZ® 800 family |
Coherent |
High Transmitter Optical Output Power, L-Band 800G coherent pluggable DCO module in QSFP DD form factor |
Intel Corporation |
Intel OCI optical I/O chiplet |
Most Innovative Product: Most Innovative Test Equipment Award Shortlist: |
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Yokogawa |
Yokogawa AQ6370E Optical Spectrum Analyzer |
EXFO |
EXFO’s FTBx-88800 Series |
EXFO |
OPAL-MD probe station for PIC testing |
Optical Transport Award Award Shortlist: |
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Huawei |
OptiXtrans E6600 series |
VIAVI Solutions |
VIAVI Solutions ONE LabPro™ Testing Platform |
Precision Optical Technologies |
Genesee™ |
The awards will once again be run in conjunction with Optical Connections and will be announced at the ECOC Exhibition Product Focus sessions on Tuesday 24th September 2024. Nominations for the 2024 Awards close on 24th May.
Timeline for Awards: Nominations close 24th May | Shortlisted companies announced early August | Winners announced 24th September at ECOC in Frankfurt