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Ciena at OFC 2026

March 15–19 | Los Angeles, CA | Booth #1927

Turn AI ambition into advantage

Learn how to turn demand into revenue with innovative network services powered by the industry’s fastest solutions, from 1.6T coherent optics to hyper-rail photonics. Plus, see how you can accelerate AI deployments across all DCI use cases, from scale across to submarine, as well as inside the data center with purpose-built scale-up and scale-out solutions.

Look for us on the agenda

04:30pm–06:30pm
Panel: Probabilistic amplitude shaping after 10 years - Where are we now, and what is to come?

| Georg Böcherer, Research Scientist Engineer
| Ian Roberts, ASIC Engineer

04:00pm–05:00pm
Panel: Future photonics for AI - From PICS to pods to factories

| Karen Liu, Senior Advisor, Product Line Management

08:00am–10:00am
Co-design of electronic and photonic systems for future LPO, NPO, and CPO

| Guilhem de Valicourt, Senior Director, xPO Interconnects

10:45am–11:15am
Technology showcase: Designing for density - Direct-to-plug liquid cooling for next-generation pluggable optics

| Bilal Riaz, Senior Director, Interconnects Product Line Management

AT THE BOOTH

Demonstrations

Stop by our booth to learn more about our innovations.

Intra-data center networking

Deliver more bandwidth while using less power. Explore copper, co-packaged optics, and liquid cooling technologies built for AI scale, so you can accelerate scale-up and scale-out data center networks.

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Advanced coherent pluggables

Secure high capacity across metro, edge, and long-haul networks—from efficient Waveserver® E-Series aggregation and 1.6T quantum-safe encryption to full-spectrum transponder solutions.

Explore
Optical transport

Scale inter-data center capacity with pluggable simplicity, from WaveLogicâ„¢ 6 Nano 800G PKT-MAX to 1.6T Coherent-Lite and the building blocks enabling next-gen 1600ZR/1600ZR+.

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Programmable photonics

See how Reconfigurable Line System Hyper-Rail and new C&L-band point-to-point configurations power efficient scale-across applications—plus compact ROADMs for metro and edge flexibility.

Dive deeper
Routing and switching

Gain more capacity and reach with more control. Combine coherent routing, edge-to-access infrastructure, and secure data center management to scale services and boost network resilience.

Discover
Navigator Network Control Suite

Accelerate service delivery, speed issue resolution, and reduce operational risk with AI-driven troubleshooting, digital-twin validation, and automated deployment optimization.

Gain insights

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OFC 2026

  • March 17–19
  • Los Angeles Convention Center
    1201 S Figueroa Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90015
  • Booth #1927