VICTORIES will put up a display booth at CEATEC Japan 2017 (No. S40-10).

VICTORIES put up a display booth at FOE2017 / VCOM2017 at booth No. 31-16.

OFC 2017 was held at Los Angeles Convention Center, USA. VICTORIES will put up a display booth at #3039.
The theme is ”Optical Layer Challenges to Network Softwarization: Resource Management; Hardware Virtualization; Open Disaggregation”
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[Posters]
1. Open & Disaggregated Node for Optical Path Network proposed by VICTORIES Project(PNG:1.4MB)
2. Fast Protection Switching in Disaggregated Optical Nodes by Inter-blade Cooperation(PDF:618KB)
3. Performance-assured Network Function Virtualization for Open and Disaggregated Optical Transport Systems(PDF:520KB)
4. Highly Integrated Silicon Photonics Switches(PDF:1MB)

InterBEE 2016 was held at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo. VICTORIES put up a display booth at No. 5508.

OECC/PS2016 was held at Niigata, Japan. VICTORIES will put up a display booth at No. B22.

VICTORIES put up a display booth at FOE2016 , No. E30-16.
Thank you for coming to our booth.

ISUPT/EXAT2015, co-organized by VICTORIES, was held at Kyoto, Japan. VICTORIES will put up a display there.

VICTORIES put up a display booth at FOE2015. Thank you for visiting us.

VICTORIES put up a display booth at FOE2014. 

ISUPT2013, sponsored by VICTORIES was held at University of Rochester, USA. 

VICTORIES and ESPRIT(Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, AIST) will hold the Joint Symposium at Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. 
Theme: "Photonics for Super Smart Society (Society 5.0) ~ Ten years of VICTORIES and the new horizon of optical networking"

The 9th VICTORIES Symposium was held at Tokyo, Japan.  (Nov. 1, 2016).
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The 8th VICTORIES Symposium was held at Tokyo, Japan.

The 7th VICTORIES International Symposium & Workshop were held at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan (Oct. 8-9, 2014). See details. 

The 6th VICTORIES Symposium was held at Akihabara. --> for details.

The 5th VICTORIES Symposium was held.

The 4th VICTORIES Symposium was held.

VICTORIES successfully passed the intermediate examination, and has been awarded further funding for fiscal year 2011 to 2017 with a new and expanded research topics and collaborating companies.

The 3rd VICTORIES Symposium was held.

The 16th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting will be held.

The 15th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting was held.

The 14th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting was held.

The 13th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting were held.

The 12th Steering Committee Meeting and the 21st Advisory Committee Meeting were held.

The 23rd Executive Committee Meeting was held.

The 12th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting was held.

The 11th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting was held.

The 20th Advisory Committee Meeting and the 22nd Executive Committee Meeting were held.

The 10th Network Architecture Study Group3 (NASG3) Meeting was held.

IEEE Certifies that Dr. Shu Namiki, a chairman of the executive committee of VICTORIES,  has been elevated to the grade of Fellow for contribution to optical amplification.  Honorary Certificate

VICTORIES uploaded a new video「Dynamic Optical Path Network with ultra-high capacity, ultra-low energy consumption and ultra-low latency」

VICTORIES' Executive Chair, Shu Namiki, served as a program co-chair at OFC2015 held in Los Angeles, 22-26 March 2015. 

VICTORIES uploaded a summary video of  The International Symposium WIN2 2014. Introducing optical network technologies, many events such as lecture, panel session, poster session, exhibition by collaborating companies, Dynamic Optical Path Network (DOPN) demonstrations of element technology, testbed and coexistence applications were held.

VICTORIES PR video has been revised.

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VICTORIES PR video (ver.1) was released.  

Post-doctoral position was filled.

Job opening for Postdoctoral Positions.

Research paper by AIST researcher was selected for the Post Deadline Paper at OECC 2017 held in Singapore, July 31-August 4, 2017. "Ultralow-Crosstalk and Broadband Multi-Port Optical Switch Using SiN/Si Double-Layer Platform", Keijiro Suzuki, Ryotaro Konoike, Ken Tanizawa, Satoshi Suda, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Shu Namiki, Hitoshi Kawashima (AIST)．

The research paper on VICTORIES research result by Dr. Tanizawa, AIST, is introduced in the news release page of OFC 2017 as a noteworthy research result.
“Fully Integrated Non-Duplicate Polarization-Diversity 8 × 8 Si-Wire PILOSS Switch”, Ken Tanizawa, Keijiro Suzuki, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Shu Namiki, and Hitoshi Kawashima, AIST.
(This topic was mentioned in "LIGHTWAVE online news" on February 2, 2017)

Dr. Cong Guangwei, AIST researcher, was selected for the Best Poster Award-Silver Award at 13th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (Shanghai, China), 2016.8.24-26. Poster title: "High-efficiency and High-speed Silicon Optical Modulator Based on Amorphous Silicon Loaded SOI Waveguide"

The research paper by Nagoya University, NTT and AIST, was selected for the Best Paper Award at OECC/PS 2016 held in Niigata, 2016.7.3-7.7. "Demonstration of 1,440x1,440 Fast Optical Circuit Switch for Datacenter Networking" Koh Ueda(1), Yojiro Mori(1), Hiroshi Hasegawa(1), Hiroyuki Matsuura(2), Kiyo Ishii(2), Haruhiko Kuwatsuka(2), Shu Namiki(2), Toshio Watanabe(3), Ken-ichi Sato(2,1)

Research papers by AIST researcher, were selected for the Post Deadline Paper at OECC 2016 held at Niigata, Japan July 3-7, 2016.
(1)"Silicon Photonic 32 × 32 Strictly-Non-Blocking Blade Switch and Its Full Path Characterization", Ken Tanizawa, Keijiro Suzuki, Satoshi Suda, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Shu Namiki, Hitoshi Kawashima(AIST)
(2)”Low Noise, Regeneration of Optical Frequency Comb-Lines for 64QAM Enabled by SBS Gain”, Mark Pelusi, Amol Choudhary, David Marpaung, Benjamin Eggleton(CUDOS, The University of Sydney), Takashi Inoue , Hung Nguyen Tan, Karen Solis-Trapala, Shu Namiki(AIST)

【Invited】"Multi-port Optical Switch Based on Silicon Photonics", Hitoshi Kawashima, Keijiro Suzuki, Ken Tanizawa, Satoshi Suda, Guangwei Cong, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Shu Namiki, Kazuhiro Ikeda, OFC2016, Anaheim USA

Fujitsu Limited, VICTORIES collaborating company, Significantly Expands Its 1FINITY Series of Optical Transmission System Equipment. -Uses disaggregated architecture to offer individual functions as separate blades -

World-fastest tunable dispersion compensation achieved by VICTORIES
VICTORIES has succeeded to demonstrate a microsecond-response tunable dispersion compensation through AIST's original 'Parametric Tunable Dispersion Compensation (P-TDC)' scheme.