ECOC 2025 industry reflections - Part 2

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.

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Challenges, progress & uncertainties facing the optical component industry

In recent years the industry has moved from direct detection to coherent transmission and has alighted on a flexible ROADM architecture. The result is a new level in optical networking sophistication. OFC/NFOEC 2012 will showcase the progress in these and other areas of industry consensus as well as shining a spotlight on issues less clear.

Optical component players may be forgiven for the odd envious glance towards the semiconductor industry and its well-defined industry dynamics. 

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