Acacia’s Co-Founder Benny Mikkelsen gave the plenary at ECOC 2025 where he discussed how coherent communications has transformed how the industry builds optical networking. His presentation highlighted key milestones over the last several decades, and also touched on the latest trends such as AI, which is driving huge capacity demands in all network segments. While the last decade focused on speed, performance, power and cost, the next decade will be around solving challenges in baud rate, fiber capacity, and power consumption. Click the video below to watch Benny’s full plenary presentation.
