ECOC 2025 industry reflections - Part 2
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 2:09PM Part 2: More industry figures share their thoughts after attending ECOC 2025 in Copenhagen: Lumentum's Rafik Ward, Scintil Photonics' CEO, Matt Crowley, Rob Shore of Nokia, and Jeff Hutchins of the OIF and Ranovus.
Nokia's stand at ECOC.
Rafik Ward, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Lumentum
At ECOC 2025, I saw a nice uptick in the discussion about co-packaged optics with a clearer view to commercialisation.
While co-packaged optics has been discussed for nearly a decade, we are moving from a world of pretty slides and architecture diagrams to one where increasingly large statistical data sets are shown. Meta showed co-packaged optics data over 15 million port hours with significant improvements with regard link failures. Similarly, Broadcom has been showing statistical performance across increasingly large datasets in the last year.
