Articles from IOWN Global Forum

On Thursday April 24, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (the IOWN Global Forum) will host a public event in Sweden’s thriving tech capital to discuss its collaborative efforts to deliver photonics-driven technologies for the communications infrastructure of the future. FUTURES Stockholm will promote the Forum’s speed-of-light innovation, which transitions from using electrons to photons to deliver unparalleled data capacity, ultra-low latency, performance resiliency, and advanced sustainable solutions for diverse industry sectors.

At MWC Barcelona next month, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) will update on its progress in delivering a smarter world through next-generation communications infrastructure. The Forum will showcase its work through exhibits and explainers at its booth in Hall 2, Stand 2B40, and discussions at a half-day session in the afternoon of Tuesday, March 4. The program will explore how next-generation communications and infrastructure technologies play a key role in meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and future needs of business and society.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (the IOWN Global Forum) is celebrating five years of pioneering the development of high-capacity, ultra-low latency, and power-efficient photonics-based technology, designed to provide new services, foster sustainability and address societal needs worldwide. The Forum is marking this important milestone with a snapshot of its achievements to date and its future activities to support successful implementation.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (the IOWN Global Forum) and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) today announced a new collaboration to advance the development of cutting-edge optical technologies, principles, approaches and designs. This initiative is designed to accelerate the innovation of energy-efficient, low-latency network infrastructure, supporting the next generation of data-driven and communication-intensive applications.

Today, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (the IOWN Global Forum) announced NTT’s Open All-Photonic Network (APN) Proof of Concept (PoC) Project as the winner of its 2024 PoC of the Year. The award ceremony took place at the IOWN Global Forum’s members conference in Taipei, Taiwan, which shines a light on the work of the Forum to deliver the communications networks of the future.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (the IOWN Global Forum) is heading to high-tech capital Taipei to host its second public event to share its advances in photonics-driven technologies and their real world applications. Taking place on Wednesday, October 9, the hybrid half-day FUTURES conference will shine a light on the work of the IOWN Global Forum to deliver the communications networks of the future.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) has concluded its 4th Annual Member Meeting in Vancouver, celebrating its largest event in North America. Over 200 delegates from leading global companies gathered in the jewel of Canada’s west coast to participate in thought-provoking keynotes, discussions and workshops with their peers, and making progress towards the association’s Vision 2030 Roadmap.

In Vancouver this month, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) will host its first ever public event to envision a future enabled by photonics-driven technology. The hybrid half-day conference on Thursday, April 25, entitled FUTURES - Powering Tomorrow with Photonics, will provide exclusive insights into the mission and work of IOWN Global Forum to deliver a more secure and sustainable world, powered by light.

At MWC Barcelona this month, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) will set out its technology roadmap for 2030, creating a more secure and sustainable world powered by light. Founded in 2020, the association is leading the development of pioneering technology that augments and replaces electronics with photonics to transfer and process vast quantities of data at speeds previously considered impossible. Senior executives and technical experts from Ericsson, Fujitsu, Intel, KDDI, Nokia, NTT, Red Hat and SKTelecom will discuss at a MWC panel session how collaboration is required across the entire technology ecosystem to realize this vision. They will share exciting use case examples, ranging from the way we spend money to the way we are entertained, and the technologies that will meet their requirements in practice.

ITU-T CxO Roundtable 2023―Dr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe, President and Chairperson of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum), presented at the roundtable the importance of international connectivity based on Innovative Optical and Wireless Networks (IOWN). Following the presentation, the roundtable discussion focused on the need to formulate de jure standards for the global deployment of new networks, including in developing countries, based on IOWN technologies.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization focused on fostering innovation through open source, and the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum), which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, announced a new partnership to collaborate on integrating Linux Foundation software into the IOWN Global Forum platform. The common goal is to develop a collaborative infrastructure that enables higher performance, low latency, and energy efficiency to meet growing data delivery demands.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, recently hosted its third Annual Member Meeting, welcoming nearly 400 registrants from 78 organizations. Additionally, key sessions were live-streamed with over 175 members participating online from around the world.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum), which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, today announced its third annual member meeting to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 25-27 April, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Osaka.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum), which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, released a new version of its Vision 2030 White Paper that outlines the strategic direction and imperatives of the photonics industry to deliver a next-generation infrastructure for future use cases and business impacts. Ongoing engagement at last month’s Working Group Workshop, with over 100 attendees, continues to drive the momentum of the Forum toward its ultimate future vision of computing and networks.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, recently hosted its first in-person Member Meeting, welcoming 140 registrants from 44 organizations. Additionally, key sessions were live-streamed with over 300 members participating online from around the world.

The IOWN Global Forum continues to outpace expectations for momentum, technical deliverables, and membership growth now surpassing the 100 members milestone. Founded in January 2020 by NTT, Intel, and Sony to realize a new generation computing and communication infrastructure, the membership of the Forum includes leaders across a diversity of industries covering information technology, manufacturing, telecom, finance, chemical, printing, construction, and academia.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) which seeks to create a smarter, more connected world, last week hosted its second Annual Member Meeting welcoming over 460 registrants from 87 organizations. Since its previous Annual Member Meeting, the Forum has nearly doubled in membership, adding 44 new organizations in the past year. Also introduced at the Meeting were five recently elected Directors Brad Booth of Microsoft, Chris Wright of Red Hat, Hey-Chyi Young of Chunghwa Telecom, Per Beming of Ericsson, and Dr. Ulrich Dropmann of Nokia Corporation.

The IOWN Global Forum today announced the release of the organization’s Vision 2030 Roadmap. With the Roadmap’s release the consortium of almost 100 of the world’s most successful technology organizations has completed Phase 1 of its mission and is now moving onto Phase 2, which includes designing Proof of Concepts for some of the world’s most advanced communications technologies.

The Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) has released six technology reference documents, in support of its goal to provide reliable, high-speed, low-latency data and communications paths using an all-optical data transport architecture. The reference documents focus on methodologies for the provisioning of data and communications paths along with computing improvements which are designed to deliver more energy-efficient ways of routing network traffic than what is available today.