Symposium Program

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VICTORIES Project (Vertically Integrated Center for Technologies of Optical Routing toward Ideal Energy Savings) held International Symposium WIN² 2014 at AIST on Oct. 8, 9th, 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.

Oct. 8th,      Place: Auditorium at AIST Tsukuba Central
Session I: Presider: Tomohiro Kudoh (Director, Information Technology Research Institute, AIST)
1. Opening Remarks  10:00 - 10:10 : Toshihiko Kanayama (Vice President, AIST )
10:10 - 10:20 : Tadao Kanda (Director for Regional R&D Promotion, University-Industry                                                                       Collaboration and Regional R&D  Division, MEXT)
2. Introduction to VICTORIES  10:20 - 11:00  “Challenges for Dynamic Optical Path Network”            Shu Namiki (Director, Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)
3. Keynote Speech 1     11:00 - 11:30 “Enabling technologies for future sustainable optical network”            Tetsuya Miyazaki (Director General, Photonic Network Research Institute, NICT)
Keynote Speech 2      11:30 - 12:00 “Future optical networking technologies: capacity, energy, and flexibility”            Peter Winzer (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
Network Demos      13:00 - 15:30 “Demo Tour”
1. DOPN Demo     Junya Kurumida and Kiyo Ishii (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)     Hitoshi Takeshita (Green Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)
2. Clinical Applications Demo     Kiyoyuki Chinzei (Human Technology Research Institute, AIST)     Maki Sugimoto (Dept. Gastroenterology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine)     Ichiro Osawa (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST)     Isao Matsushima (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)
3. 8K SHV Live Demo     Takayuki Kurosu, Satoshi Suda and Hiroshi Kakibayashi (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)     Tsuyoshi Nakatogawa and Junichiro Kawamoto (Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK)
13:00 - 15:45 “Free Demos” : Please feel free to visit these at Multi-purpose room and Foyer.     F-1　Hierarchical Multi-granular Path Network Resource Management     F-2　Uncompressed 4K60p Video Conference System     F-3　Demonstration of 4K‐Video On‐Demand Service Using Optical Path Networks     F-4　Autonomous Optical Path Conditioner     F-5　Development of a prototype of wavelength converter     F-6　Ultrafast constellation monitor     F-7　Optical Multiplexing Technology Using Fiber-Optic Signal Processing     F-8　Silicon Photonics Optical Path Processors     F-9　5x5 Wavelength Selective Switch
Poster Presentation & Exhibition
Session II: Presider: Ken-ichi Sato (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University)
4. Invited Speech: Technologies for future optical networks      15:45 - 16:15 “An operator perspective on the energy efficiency of telecom networks”             Christoph Lange (Deutsche Telekom)
16:15 - 16:45 “Towards ultra-high bit-rate flexible optical transport networks”             Erwan Pincemin (France Telecom - Orange)
16:45 - 17:15 “Photonic integrated devices for future optical networks”             Chris Doerr (Acacia Communications)
17:15 - 17:45 “From layered to layerless networks - Software programmable optical networks”             Inder Monga (Energy Sciences Network)
17:45 - 18:15 “Ultra-high definition videos and their applications over the network”             Petr Holub (CESNET)

Oct. 9th,      Place: Auditorium at AIST Tsukuba Central
Session III: Presider: Hitoshi Kawashima (Deputy Director, Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)
5. Greeting     10:00 - 10:15 Ryoji Chubachi (President, AIST)
6. Keynote Speech 3     10:15 - 10:45 “8K Super Hi-Vision: the future of television”            Tomohiro Saito                (Head, Advanced Transmission Systems Research Division,                                              Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK)
Toru Kuroda (Director, Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK)
Keynote Speech 4     10:45 - 11:15 “Silicon photonics in the information technology supply chain”            Lionel C. Kimerling (MIT Microphotonics Center)
7. VICTORIES Session Presentation by Collaborating companies    11:15 - 11:45 “Recent progress and future vision of dynamic photonic network”            Atsushi Murase (Associate Senior Vice President, NTT Director,                                    NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group)
11:45 - 12:15 “Dynamic optical networking technology contributing efficient social infrastructure”            Shuichi Tahara (Vice President, Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)
Session IV: 8. Panel Session     13:15 - 15:30 “The future of optical switches: when, where and how? ”              Organizers: Hisato Uetsuka, Ken Tanizawa, Masao Tachikura (AIST)              Moderator:  Hisato Uetsuka (AIST)              Panelist:     Ken-ichi Sato (Nagoya Univ.)                                Hiroshi Onaka (Fujitsu)                                Richard Jensen (Polatis)                                Hiroyuki Tsuda (Keio Univ.)                                Philip N. Ji (NEC Labs America)                                Zhaowen Xu (I2R, A*STAR)                                Harm Dorren (Technical Univ. of Eindhoven)                                Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST)
Network Demos      15:45 - 18:15 “Demo Tour”
1. DOPN Demo     Junya Kurumida and Kiyo Ishii (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)     Hitoshi Takeshita (Green Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)
2. Clinical Applications Demo     Kiyoyuki Chinzei (Human Technology Research Institute, AIST)     Maki Sugimoto (Dept. Gastroenterology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine)     Ichiro Osawa (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST)     Isao Matsushima (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)
3. 8K SHV Live Demo     Takayuki Kurosu, Satoshi Suda and Hiroshi Kakibayashi (Network Photonics Research Center, AIST)     Tsuyoshi Nakatogawa and Junichiro Kawamoto (Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK)
15:45 - 18:30  “Free Demos” : Please feel free to visit these at Multi-purpose room and Foyer.     F-1　Hierarchical Multi-granular Path Network Resource Management     F-2　Uncompressed 4K60p Video Conference System     F-3　Demonstration of 4K‐Video On‐Demand Service Using Optical Path Networks     F-4　Autonomous Optical Path Conditioner     F-5　Development of a prototype of wavelength converter     F-6　Ultrafast constellation monitor     F-7　Optical Multiplexing Technology Using Fiber-Optic Signal Processing     F-8　Silicon Photonics Optical Path Processors     F-9　5x5 Wavelength Selective Switch
Poster Presentations & Exhibition (at Foyer) 15:45 - 18:30