Optical network architectures [Series Editorial]

In the first quarter of this year, the optical communications industry´s major event, OFCNFOEC ´13, was held in Anaheim, California, with global participation (in excess of 12,000 attendees) in the conference´s technical program and exhibit (more than 550 exhibiting companies). More than 800 technical presentations covered a broad range of optical communications technologies from advances in high-speed optical transport, software-defined networking (SDN), silicon photonics to optical interconnects in future computing systems, as well as progress in optical test and measurement. As we have witnessed in the past years, a vibrant global optical communications industry was in display at this year´s OFCNFOEC.