Joint meeting of NPL Optical Technologies & Measurement Network FOToN Working Group & South East Photonics NETwork (SEPNET)


Optical Fibre Measurements and Communications: What is the Current State of Play?

National Physical Laboratory, 17th July 2008

Chair: Neil Haigh, Blueside Photonics Ltd, Chair FOToN Working Group & David Ives, NPL

Agenda

Time

   

Topic

   

Speaker

 

10:00 Registration, Coffee & Exhibition
 

10:30

UK Photonics Outlook

N Haigh, Blueside Photonics Ltd

 
11:00 10GbE: optical vs copper, 40GbE and 100GbE future multimode challenges Mike Gilmore, The Cabling Partnership
 
12:00

Fibre Optic Standards:

   IEC / CENELEC

   IEC TC86 WG4

 

Philip Longhurst, Lemo

David Ives, NPL

12:15 Conference Reports / discussion primer
 
12:30 Lunch & Exhibition
 
13:30 Discussion future topics and DONM
 
13:45 FTTH, BT's perspective Malcolm Campbell, BT Design
 
14:15 Testing installed cabling - recent developments in international standards from ITU, IEC and ISO/IEC R Ednay, Optical Technology Training Ltd
   
15:00 Tea & Coffee
 
15:15 Diversifying applications for fibre components and implications for company development Andy Robertson, Fibre Optics, Gooch & Housego
(on behalf of Paul Ellis, Fibre Optics, Gooch & Housego)
 
15:45 Introduction to the UKCPO and SEPNET
Mike Phillips | John Lincoln
Mike Phillips, SEPNET Director & President Elect UKCPO
Ian Tooley, UKCPO
John Lincoln, SEPNET

16:15

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