Ciena Showcases Optical Leadership at OFC 2025

　　At OFC 2025, happening March 30–April 3 in San Francisco, Ciena will demonstrate how its innovations—including the industry’s only coherent 1.6Tb/s solution—are powering AI networks. Visitors to Ciena’s booth (#2443) will learn how to set new performance and economic benchmarks, achieve new levels of scalability and flexibility in data center design, and use intelligent software control and disruptive photonic layer innovations to thrive in the AI era.

　　Speaking Sessions

　　Ciena CEO Gary Smith will take part in the CEO Panel at the Optica executive Forum on Monday, March 31, at 2:30 PT, which will discuss optical networking industry trends and economics.

　　Additionally, Ciena’s subject matter experts will participate in various speaking sessions and panel discussions throughout the conference. See here for the full agenda.

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　　Demonstration Highlights

　　New innovations in and around the data center: Featuring industry-first coherent optical and IMDD technologies, such as 1.6T Coherent-Lite pluggable transceivers and 448Gb/s PAM4 transmission, that bring new levels of scale and flexibility to data center designs.

　　Programmable photonics from edge to core networks: Showcasing the highly instrumented, massively scalable ELS and RLS photonic line systems.

　　Highest connectivity optical transport: Demonstrating leading performance for AI traffic growth with WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 1.6Tb/s coherent networking and sustainable, multi-vendor interoperability with WaveLogic 6 Nano (WL6n) 800G coherent pluggable transceivers.

　　Liquid cooling: Featuring coherent pluggable transceivers with integrated cold plate/liquid cooling in an advanced technology demonstration.

　　Coherent routing and broadband: Showing live demonstrations of:

　　WL6e 1.6Tb/s interoperability between WaveRouter and 6500, enabling highest capacity connectivity across converged IP/optical networks

　　25GS-PON broadband service supporting enterprise and campus environments

　　AI-driven multi-layer operations: Demonstrating AI-enabled, automated, lifecycle operations featuring simplified capacity planning and management of pluggable coherent optics across multi-vendor converged networks with Navigator Network Control Suite (Navigator NCS).

　　Ciena Services: Presenting robust capabilities that ensure peak network capacity and performance plus multi-vendor process automation for quicker issue resolution.

　　OIF (booth #5745): Supporting OIF’s 800ZR, 400ZR, OpenZR+, and Multi-Span Optics and Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) interoperability demos with Ciena’s 8192 coherent router, WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) 400G coherent pluggable transceivers, and Navigator NCS. Additionally, Ciena is participating in the Common Electrical I/O demos, showing live 448Gb/s PAM4, PAM6, and PAM8 transmission, helping drive industry direction toward optimal rate adoption for 448G SerDes.