Optical Interconnects Conference 2017

The sixth IEEE Photonics Society Optical Interconnects Conference facilitates collaboration to drive new interconnect architectures and technologies from concepts in research labs to commercial realities. The conference covers the complete spectrum of high performance optical and electrical interconnect challenges for Computer Com and Network Systems. This conference focuses on emerging trends and challenges in high performance interconnect such as operating at higher speed >50 Gb/s, advance modulation, FEC, improved energy efficiency, advance packaging of photonics with electronics, and manufacturability.

Hot topics tackled this year include the pros & cons of on-board optics in datacenter hardware, and how will the urgent need for 100Gb/s will be met in backplanes and chip-to-chip.

The interconnect strategy is crucial in peta- and exa-scale platforms in datacenters and supercomputers. So we look forward to the participation of hardware technologists, network and system architects of peta- and exa-scale platforms in datacenters and supercomputers. We also welcome software application architects, to discuss how physical connectivity relates to application workload distribution.