Cisco Live Melbourne 2025
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-13 | Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, VIC 3006, Australia
The Cisco Live community comes together annually for an experience that delivers the latest technical education, insights, and inspiration to support your personal and professional success.
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Acacia Experts Presenting at Cisco Live Melbourne
Unlocking Hyperscale Connectivity: The rise of managed optical fiber networks.
Speaker: Anuj Malik, Director, Product Strategy & Management, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025; 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM AEDT
Location: Room 213
With the exponential growth of cloud computing, AI workloads, and hyperscale data center interconnects, Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN) have emerged as a transformative solution for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective optical transport. This session explores the global market drivers behind MOFN adoption, key use cases (including recent wins with hyperscalers), and Cisco’s innovative approach to delivering high-performance, vendor-managed optical networks. Attendees will gain insights into architecture, deployment models, and the business benefits of leveraging MOFN in today’s bandwidth-hungry landscape.

Lightwave Webinar: AI Infrastructure at Scale
2025-12-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
As AI workloads grow exponentially, understanding how to architect the networking infrastructure at scale is critical for delivering performance, efficiency, and security. This webinar will explore the latest trends in AI infrastructure and their impact on optical interconnects, including:

Scale Up: Enhancing the capacity of individual systems by increasing compute power, memory, and storage within a single node to handle demanding AI training and inference tasks.
Scale Out: Expanding capacity horizontally by connecting multiple nodes into clusters, enabling distributed AI workloads and parallel processing.
Scale Across: Extending high-performance networking across multiple data center locations to support AI workloads.

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Cisco Live Amsterdam 2026
2026-02-09 - 2026-02-13 | RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
For over 35 years, Cisco Live has been the premier destination for the best and brightest minds in IT to learn, experience the future of technology, build community, and celebrate one another.
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Acacia Experts Presenting at Cisco Live Amsterdam
Advancements and Applications of Coherent Pluggable Technology in High Bandwidth Transport Networks
Speaker: Anuj Malik, Director, Product Strategy & Management, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Date: Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026
Time: 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM CET
Coherent pluggable technology has emerged as a pivotal solution, integrating coherent optics into pluggable transceivers. This innovation offers a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective approach to meet the increasing demand for bandwidth. This presentation will delve into the technical underpinnings of coherent pluggable technology, including key components such as tunable lasers, high-speed ADC/DACs, and sophisticated DSP algorithms. It will also explore the performance metrics, such as data rates, reach, and power consumption, comparing them with traditional coherent solutions. Furthermore, the session will highlight real-world deployment scenarios, case studies, and future trends, underscoring the transformative impact of coherent pluggables leading to convergence of IP and Optical layers.

OFC 2026
2026-03-15 - 2026-03-19 | Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
As a global event, OFC provides startups with the opportunity to debut while industry leaders set the pace for the future. It includes unveiling pioneering trends that will define the industry’s trajectory and offer solutions to critical global issues such as quantum networking, artificial intelligence (AI), space optics and data center connectivity.
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Acacia Experts Presenting at OFC 2026
Workshop: Will Coherent Pluggables Take Over Everything
Acacia Speaker: Timo Pfau, Principal Engineer
Date/Time: Sunday, March 15; 13:00-15:30 pm
Location: Room 408B
Optica Executive Forum: Scale Across Data Center Networks
Acacia Speaker: Tom Williams, VP of Marketing
Date/Time: Monday, March 16; 8:50-10:10 am
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles
Invited Speaker: Transmission Systems: Next-Generation Coherent Optical Transmission Systems and Practical Optimizations
Acacia Speaker: Wenting Yi, Optical Engineer
Date/Time: Monday, March 16; 10:30-11:00 am
Location: Room 408A
Symposium: Beyond the Atmosphere: Architectures and Technologies for Optical Space: Commercial Transceivers for Spaceborne Optical Networks
Acacia Speaker: John Jacobs, Senior Product Manager
Date/Time: Monday, March 16; 17:30-18:00 pm
Location: Room 515A
NOS Panel: Realizing IP over DWDM: Benefits, Challenges and Customer Deployments
Acacia Moderator: Anuj Malik, Director, Product Management & Strategy
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18; 10:45-12:15 pm
Location: Expo Theatre I
Special Event: Advanced Packaging and Co-Packaging for Efficient Optical Systems
Acacia Speaker: Ricardo Aroca, Distinguished Engineer
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18; 14:15-15:45 pm
Location: Expo Theatre I
Special Event: Architecting the AI Network Infrastructure at Scale
Acacia Speaker: Tom Williams, VP of Marketing
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18; 16:00-17:00 pm
Location: Expo Theatre I

Cisco Live Las Vegas
2026-05-31 - 2026-06-04 | Mandalay Bay Convention Center, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, 89119, United States
For over 36 years, Cisco Live has been the ultimate destination for IT practitioners. Supercharge your skills, explore the future of tech, build your network, and celebrate one another! Every year, the Cisco Live community unites for an event like no other. Packed with cutting-edge technical education, game-changing insights, and inspiration to help you achieve your personal and professional goals
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China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2026)
2026-09-09 - 2026-09-11 | Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center, Shenzhen China, No. 1 Zhancheng Road, Fuhai Street - Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 518133, China
As a premier event covering the entire optoelectronics industry chain, CIOE gathers over 3,800 top exhibitors from 30+ countries and regions. Co-located with eight events covering sectors such as information and communication, precision optics, laser and intelligent manufacturing, infrared, intelligent sensing, display technologies, AR & VR, photonic innovation etc. CIOE serves as a one-stop efficient procurement platform for industry professionals to source materials, components, equipment, and solutions. It is also an ideal trade hub for precise business matching, networking, and discovering the latest industry trends.
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ECOC 2026
2026-09-21 - 2026-09-24 | FYCMA (Malaga Trade Fairs and Congress Centre), Av. de José Ortega y Gasset, 201 – 29006, Málaga, Spain
The ECOC Exhibition is the largest optical communications exhibition in Europe, held each September in a different European city. The event is the key meeting place for decision makers from across the fiber optic communications technology industry.
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