The Fiber Connect 2023 which was held in Orlando, Florida last August 20-23 is the latest buzz in the fiber optic community. The conference tackles

on the opportunities and challenges of internet service providers (ISPs) in not only passing homes with fiber, but also ensuring adoption levels.

The conference’s seminars focused on key panelist from the industry who provided their point of view and trends of where the industry is heading. Technology deep dives link research are designed to offer additional information on key trends and subjects.

One of the panelists was Sireesha Kora from Nokia. She is the Head of Cloud-Native SDN Controller Applications & Artificial

Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). She discussed on the following key points:

➸ how the fiber network infrastructure is morphing and evolving.

➸ automation towards what is happening on the network and do better things through software and networks with NDS controllers.

➸ Intent Based Network.

➸ Cloud native, closed loop automation, and open platforms.

➸ Wi-Fi 7 Power of SDN

➸ GPON fading out NGPON2 next phase.

➸ Nokia Quillon

➸ 25G in SFP, and 100G on the Danes principles Bell Labs

➸ Debunking the myth of bandwidth shortage.