Special Session - MOPA Optics for Wireless

Co-organisers: Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, Italy,  Stefan Dahlfort, Ericsson, US

MOPA is a multi-lateral industry-driven initiative, created to provide a common industry view of the relevant optical solutions for 5G mobile transport, to facilitate network evolution for mobile operators and mobile transport network equipment manufacturers.  

The focus of MOPA is describing all relevant high-level requirements for optical solutions for 5G mobile transport. Examples of topics covered in the MOPA Technical paper 2.1 are: 50 Gb/s WDM 15 km systems for fronthaul, remote optical module management, impact of optical pluggables on synchronization, and so on. Recently, leading mobile operators joined the newly formed MOPA operator advisory board. 

The workshop will be organized in two panel sessions. In the first sessions, four mobile operators will tell system and pluggable vendors what technologies they need to meet their requirements and challenges in the evolution of their networks. In the second session, four vendors will tell us what technologies they are developing for meeting the 5G requirements, discussing the challenges in meeting cost and performance at the same time.

Speakers

Jun-ichi Kani, NTT

Albert Rafel, BT 

Mark Watts, Verizon 

Hongseok Shin, SKT

Vendor panel

Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson

Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo

Francois Fredricx, Nokia 

Gert Sarlet, Coherent)