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OIF at ECOC 2025: Eliminating Barriers and Accelerating Innovation Through Industry-Wide Interoperability

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35 member companies join forces to demonstrate real-world interoperability across optical and electrical domains

FREMONT, Calif. — OIF returns to ECOC 2025, Europe’s largest optical communications exhibition, with a live, multi-vendor demonstration that showcases how its members are bridging critical gaps and accelerating innovation through collaboration and interoperable standards-based solutions.

Featuring 35 participating companies, the demo encompasses several of OIF’s core technical domains — optical, electrical, energy efficient and management interfaces — and highlights interoperability across key technologies including 400ZR, 800ZR, Multi-span Optics, Common Electrical I/O (CEI) CEI-448G, CEI-224G, CEI-112G, Co-Packaging, Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS), Energy Efficient Interfaces (EEI) and more.

The following companies spanning system vendors, component and module suppliers, test and measurement providers, semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) companies and leading connector and cabling manufacturers are participating in OIF’s Interoperability Demo at ECOC: 1Finity, Adtran, Alphawave Semi, Amphenol, Anritsu Corporation, AOI, Cadence Design Systems, Inc., CICT/Accelink, Ciena, Cisco, Coherent Corp., Eoptolink Technology, EXFO, Furukawa FITEL, HGGenuine, Juniper Networks (now part of HPE), Keysight Technologies, Lessengers, Ligent, Inc., Lumentum, Marvell, MaxLinear Inc., Molex LLC, MultiLane, Nokia, Nubis Communications, O-Net, Samtec, SENKO Advanced Components, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Synopsys, Inc., Terahop PTE Ltd., TE Connectivity, US Conec and Wilder Technologies.

New this year, CMIS will operate within a live, simulated network environment rather than as a standalone configuration. This shift reflects the specification’s maturity and its critical role in enabling plug-and-play integration across disaggregated systems delivering real-world value to both operators and system vendors.

“OIF’s interoperability work is grounded in collaboration — across suppliers, hyperscalers, system vendors and network operators,” said Mike Klempa, OIF Board and Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Interoperability Working Group Chair (Alphawave Semi). “This year’s demo reflects the depth and diversity of that collaboration and continues OIF’s mission of closing the gap between technology promise and practical deployment, especially for future-oriented AI architectures.”

The demonstration reinforces OIF’s role as the leading forum for accelerating the development and deployment of open, scalable network infrastructure — delivering implementation-ready solutions that the industry can count on.

Visit OIF at booth #C3425 or learn more about the OIF Demo at ECOC 2025 at: https://www.oiforum.com/meetings-events/oif-ecoc-2025/

About OIF
OIF is where the optical networking industry’s interoperability work gets done. With more than 25 years of effecting forward change in the industry, OIF represents the dynamic ecosystem of 160+ industry leading network operators, system vendors, component vendors and test equipment vendors collaborating to develop interoperable electrical, optical and control solutions that directly impact the industry’s ecosystem and facilitate global connectivity in the open network world. Connect with OIF on LinkedIn, on X, on Bluesky and at https://www.oiforum.com/.

PR Contact:
Leah Wilkinson
Wilkinson + Associates for OIF
leah@wilkinson.associates
703-907-0010

OIF Leads the Charge for Interoperability at ECOC 2024

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34 Member Companies to Showcase Cutting-Edge Solutions, OIF Experts to Speak in Three Market Focus Sessions

Fremont, Calif. – OIF today unveiled new details on its live interoperability demonstrations at ECOC 2024, highlighting advancements across critical areas such as 800ZR, 400ZR and multi-span optics; Common Electrical I/O (CEI) CEI-112G and CEI-224G; Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) and Energy Efficient Interfaces (EEI) & Co-Packaging.

The demonstrations showcased in Booth #B83 Sept. 23-25 in Frankfurt, Germany, feature collaboration among 34 member companies and highlight the organization’s leadership in interoperability across a range of cutting-edge technologies.

In addition to the demonstrations, OIF experts will lead Market Focus Sessions on Coherent Optics, CMIS and EEI.

“Live interoperability demonstrations are essential for the industry to witness firsthand the seamless integration of technologies,” said Dave Brown, OIF Director of Communications, and Nokia. “OIF’s demos at ECOC, featuring contributions from system, component and test-equipment vendors, underscore OIF’s leadership in interoperability across key technologies that are crucial in shaping the standards that will define the next decade of our industry.”

Interoperability Demonstrations at Booth #B83

800ZR, 400ZR and Multi-Span Optics – Unveiling Optical Breakthroughs: The pluggable coherent optics demonstration will showcase progress in the latest advancements in 800ZR, 400ZR and ZR+ optics interoperability, offering a comprehensive view of their capabilities and applications. The demo highlights include the first public 800ZR multivendor DSP interop; OpenZR+, 100ZR and OpenROADM/ITU-T, all over multiple, multi-span networks; and OIF’s foundational 400ZR collocated on the same single-span network as 800ZR.

CEI-112G-Linear & CEI-224G Interoperability – Fast-Track to the Future: OIF is accelerating electrical interface interoperability with a suite of 224Gbps and 112Gbps CEI multi-vendor demonstrations spanning a variety of applications that form the foundation of next-generation optical connectivity. The CEI-224G demonstrations include a diversity of link types from Very Short Reach (VSR) to Long Reach (LR) and linear interfaces leveraging specifications spearheaded by the OIF. The CEI-112G demonstration displays the breadth and depth of linear pluggable optics with interoperability from multiple vendors over various link types.

CMIS – Path to Plug & Play: OIF members will demonstrate physical layer management interoperability across diverse network equipment and pluggables enabled by CMIS. The demonstration includes the CMIS industry-standard management interface for a common network control platform, showing interoperability among different plug types, switches/routers and test-measurement equipment, all operating with CMIS.

EEI and Co-Packaging – Revolutionizing Connectivity: OIF members will display a conceptual demo of AI compute and live PCIe optical links, all using next-generation EEI, as well as live demos showcasing the latest advancements for ELSFP, external laser source faceplate pluggable, for co-packaging.

Participating member companies include:
Adtran, Alphawave Semi, Amphenol, Anritsu, AOI, Astera Labs, Cadence Design Systems Inc., CICT/Accelink, Cisco, Coherent Corp., EXFO, HG Genuine, Hisense, Infinera, Innolight, Juniper Networks, Keysight Technologies, Lessengers, Linktel Technologies, Lumentum, MACOM Technology Solutions, Marvell, Molex, MultiLane, Nokia, O-Net Technologies, Samtec, Semtech, Senko Advanced Components, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Synopsys, TE Connectivity, US Conec and Wilder Technologies.

OIF Experts to Share Insights in Market Focus Sessions

In addition to the live interoperability demonstrations, OIF experts will contribute their knowledge in three Market Focus Sessions, offering insights into key industry trends and technological advancements:

  • “Coherent Optics in the Datacenter”

Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, from 1:20 pm-1:35 pm CEST

Presenter: Karl Gass, OIF Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Working Group (WG) Optical Vice Chair

  • “CMIS – Is Plug-and-Play Possible?”

Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, from 2:20 pm-2:35 pm CEST

Presenter: Doug Cattarusa, OIF Editor, Cisco

  • “Energy Efficient Interfaces for the Next Generation of AI Compute”

Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, from 11:20 am-11:35 am CEST

Presenter: Jeff Hutchins, OIF Board Member and PLL WG EEI Vice Chair, Ranovus

For further details, please visit: https://www.oiforum.com/meetings-events/oif-ecoc-2024/

 

About OIF

OIF is where the optical networking industry’s interoperability work gets done. With more than 25 years of effecting forward change in the industry, OIF represents the dynamic ecosystem of 150+ industry leading network operators, system vendors, component vendors and test equipment vendors collaborating to develop interoperable electrical, optical and control solutions that directly impact the industry’s ecosystem and facilitate global connectivity in the open network world. Connect with OIF on LinkedIn, on X at @OIForum and at https://www.oiforum.com/.

 

PR Contact:
Leah Wilkinson
Wilkinson + Associates for OIF
leah@wilkinson.associates
703-907-0010