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Gazettabyte is asking industry figures for their thoughts after attending the recent ECOC show in Glasgow. In particular, what developments and trends they noted, what they learned and what, if anything, surprised them. Here are responses from Coherent, Ciena, Marvell, Pilot Photonics, and Broadcom.
Near the River Clyde in Glasgow, where ECOC was held, was once the shipbuilding centre of the world.
Julie Eng, CTO of Coherent
It had been several years since I'd been to ECOC. Because of my background in the industry, with the majority of my career in data communications, I was pleasantly surprised to see that ECOC had transitioned from primarily telecommunications, and largely academic, into more industry participation, a much bigger exhibition, and a focus on datacom and telecom. There were many exciting talks and demos, but I don't think there were too many surprises.
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