At this year’s event, we’re showcasing a whole new level of optical innovation. With live demos, a full speaking program and our latest technology, we have a lot to talk about. Fill out the form to book a meeting with our team.

Join Adtran at OFC 2025 to explore how our technology is shaping the future of connectivity. From high-capacity DCI and coherent pluggables to real-time fiber monitoring and 50G PON, our team will highlight the latest breakthroughs.

FSP 3000 open line system

Pluggables and subsystems

ALM

SDX 6400 Series

Discover an extremely compact and easy-to-use OLS for IPoDWDM interconnects with up to 1.6T optics.

Explore our versatile IP-to-DWDM solution, featuring 100ZR+ and 800G ZR+ use cases in this live demo. 

400ZR, OpenZR+ and 100ZR+ interoperability demos with our FSP 3000 OLS and Coherent 100ZR+ QSFP28. 

Showcasing our FSP 3000 OLS with ROADMs and automation, connecting Sunnyvale and San Francisco.

Monitor, identify and locate fiber issues in real time, such as cuts in dark fiber, P2P and PON.

See the market’s first tunable SFP56 enabling 50G connectivity up to 15km in a live demonstration.

Edge BiDi QSFP+ for bidirectional 10G up to 40km and Quattro-LR for 4x100G in a single QSFP-DD.

Experience 50G PON in action with a live demo.

8:30 a.m. PT

Short course

Optical transport SDN – architectures, applications and actual implementations

Achim Autenrieth: Senior director of advanced technology

Jörg-Peter Elbers: VP of advanced technology

8:30 a.m. PT

Short course

Secure optical communications

Helmut Grießer: Director of advanced technology at Adva Network Security

1 p.m. PT

Workshop  |  Rooms 205-206 (Level 2)

How to get more out of fiber access networks?

Vincent Sleiffer: Director of product line management at Adtran

1 p.m. PT

Workshop  |  Rooms 211-212 (Level 2)

Telecom and sensing living together: Is it a healthy relationship?

Florian Azendorf: Senior optics engineer at Adtran

8:30 a.m. PT

Short course

High-capacity data center interconnects for cloud-scale networking

Sander Jansen: GM of infrastructure monitoring at Adtran

2 p.m. PT

Open Networks Summit  |  Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

Open optical networks for 6G: Do we take the O-RAN path or blaze new trails?

Jörg-Peter Elbers: VP of advanced technology at Adtran 

2 p.m. PT

Live demonstration | Demo Zone – Room 303

Demonstration of end-to-end cross-border service provisioning and monitoring using TeraFlowSDN and Eclipse Dataspace Components connectors

Achim Autenrieth: Senior director of advanced technology at Adtran 

2 p.m. PT

Live demonstration | Demo Zone – Room 303

Real-time diverse fiber sensing multi-event detection using phase OTDR measurements

Konstantinos Alexoudis: Research engineer, infrastructure monitoring at Adtran

2 p.m. PT

Live demonstration | Demo Zone – Room 303

Trust-enhanced quantum key management system for meshed QKD networks

Jonas Berl: Engineer of advanced technology at Adva Network Security

2 p.m. PT

Symposium  |  Rooms 201-202

Hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks: Where does the fiber end and satellite take over?

Jim Zou: Director of global business development at Adtran

Achim Autenrieth: Senior director of advanced technology at Adtran

3 p.m. PT

Oral presentation  |  Room 215 

Low-complexity 100G burst-mode TDMA-CPON transmission achieving 38dB link budget

Ognjen Jovanovic: Senior engineer of advanced technology at Adtran

4:30 p.m. PT

Panel discussion  |  Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

Crafting fiber access networks for service excellence assurance

Ognjen Jovanovic: Senior engineer of advanced technology at Adtran

7:30 p.m. PT

Rump session  |  Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

If a global disaster struck and all the optical infrastructure was wiped out, would you rebuild with today’s mainstream technologies?

Jörg-Peter Elbers: VP of advanced technology at Adtran

9:15 a.m. PT

Oral presentation  |  Room 301

Improving end-to-end key security in trusted node-based QKD networks with secret sharing

Mario Wenning: Engineer of advanced technology at Adva Network Security

10:30 a.m. PT

Poster presentation  |  Room 303

Experimental validation of GOSNR estimation using polarization-resolved optical spectrum analysis on metro and long-haul WDM links

Steven Searcy: Principal system architecture engineer at Adtran

Sorin Tibuleac: Senior director of system architecture at Adtran

10:30 a.m. PT

Poster presentation  |  Room 303

Exploring telemetry collection interval and continuity in a six-month study of a pan-European network

Jasper Müller: DSP architect, infrastructure monitoring at Adtran

12:30 p.m. PT

Network Operator Summit Panel II  |  Theater I

Optical access, radio access networks, front- and backhaul

Stephan Neidlinger: VP of global business development at Adtran

Jim Zou: Director of global business development at Adtran

12:30 p.m. PT

Special event  |  Room 104

The journal review process: All you need to know!

Sorin Tibuleac: Senior director of system architecture at Adtran

2 p.m. PT

Panel discussion  |  Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

In future fixed access, is monitoring built in for free?

Sander Jansen: GM of infrastructure monitoring at Adtran 

Robert Conger: GM of software platforms and VP of strategy at Adtran

6:15 p.m. PT

Oral presentation  |  Rooms 301

Impact of pilot-aided signal schemes on practical CV-QKD security

Utku Akin: Engineer of advanced technology at Adva Network Security

8 a.m. PM

Panel discussion  |  Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

Weather-resilient communications of the future

Jörg-Peter Elbers: VP of advanced technology at Adtran

8:45 a.m. PM

Oral presentation  |  Rooms 213-214 

Autonomous service provisioning and self-healing in multi-band multi-domain IPoWDM networks

Achim Autenrieth: Senior director of advanced technology at Adtran 

11:30 a.m. PM

Panel discussion  |  Theater II 

Out of the darkness: A sneak peek at CableLabs’ CPON specifications

Jim Zou: Director of global business development at Adtran 

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