Webinar - Freedom to Evolve: Flex-Grid ROADM Strategies for Multi-Vendor Growth
Join us as we dive deep into the technologies redefining modern optical networks and enabling operators to scale with confidence in an open, multi-vendor world.
In this webinar, hosted by Sean Buckley at Lightwave, Michal Naor, VP of Business Development at PacketLight Networks, covers the evolution of the ROADM (from fixed-grid systems to advanced Flex-Grid and Open ROADM architectures), and explores how operators can unlock greater agility, efficiency, and spectrum utilization across growing, dynamic networks.
Topics Covered
• ROADM market trends and global adoption
• What ROADM is and how it works (WSS, OCM, amplifiers, NMS)
• Evolution from fixed-grid to Flex-Grid and fully open CDC-F architectures
• Operational benefits: colorless, directionless, contentionless, flexibility
• Why Flex-Grid is essential for scaling to 400G, 800G, and 1.6T
• How modern networks support mixed-rate wavelengths on the same fiber
• Implementation challenges and real-world ROADM design examples
• Multi-vendor strategies for seamless network growth
Stay tuned for more insights from PacketLight Networks as we continue to innovate in open optical networking.
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