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The OTN Expansion: The Next Carrier Upgrade Cycle

  • September 17, 2013

Bruno Giguère

Senior Product Line Manager, EXFO

Bruno Giguère was nominated to EXFO’s CTO Office in 2006. As Sr. Advisor, he is instrumental in analyzing market dynamics and implementing corresponding technical strategies for the Transport and Service Assurance Division. He is EXFO’s representative to many standard organizations including the Metro Ethernet Forum, the International Telecommunication Union and the Broadband Forum. Mr. Giguère is also the Canadian National Study Group Chairman for ITU-T Study Group 12 and the current Editor of ITU-T  Y.1564 and MEF 48. Mr. Giguère holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the École de technologie supérieure in Montréal, Canada.

NEMs and Lab WDM/SONET/OTN transport testing

Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) are one of the fastest-growing segments of the optical market, making up nearly half of all 2011 optical equipment spending as confirmed in Infonetics’ OTN and Packet Optical Hardware report. As carriers refresh their transport infrastructure, there’s an opportunity to roll in new functions like OTN switching to fill these new, fat 100G pipes. This webinar will look at transport network deployment plans for the next five years and the role that OTN switching will play in this expansion.