ECOC 2025: industry reflections

Gazettabyte is asking industry figures for their thoughts after attending ECOC 2025 in Copenhagen. Here are the first contributions from LightWave Logic's Yves LeMaitre, Maxim Kuschnerov of Huawei, and LightCounting's Daryl Inniss.
The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen
Yves LeMaitre, CEO of LightWave Logic
The optical centre of gravity has shifted towards AI networking; everything else is becoming an afterthought. Even data centre interconnect/ ZR coherent optics, a major topic at OFC2025, is relegated to a secondary topic.
The achievement of 400G/lane is happening faster than everyone thought. The race to chiplets, co-packaged optics, integration and the co-packaging of Electronic and photonic ICs (EICs/PICs) is what will define the winners of tomorrow. Winning in the transceiver world might feed you today, but you'd better adjust quickly to the new AI world order.