Another successful exhibition brings visitors from over 60 different countries the latest developments from the optical communications market

Nexus Business Media Ltd, organiser of the ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communications) 2013 exhibition, has today announced that this year’s show has again experienced an increase in visitors and a record number of presentations at the highly acclaimed Market Focus.

The show at the ExCel Centre in London last month attracted 5,600 industry professionals to view the latest optical communication solutions from more than 300 exhibitors and to hear the ever successful Market Focus presentations from a host of industry-leading executives.

BT, Ethernet Alliance, FTTH Council Europe and Oclaro pulled large crowds with their discussion-evoking seminars covering optical network agility, optical integration, high speed optical transmission and mass market broadband. The Market Focus seminars were once again a central attraction at the exhibition and this year saw an impressive 29 presentations from 37 leading industry speakers.

Beverley Lucas, Group Event Manager for Nexus Business Media Ltd, organisers of the ECOC Exhibition said “we are extremely pleased with the attendance figures.  The feedback so far has been extremely positive, especially in relation to the international appeal of the show and as a great platform for new product launches.”

“The Market Focus a great success once again and surpassed all expectations, attracting 1,800 attendees to the sessions, which was this year held over three days. There were fantastic presentations from leading companies including Tellabs, ClariPHY, Avago, Inphi, Optical Internetworking Forum and Verizon.”

Adit Narasimha Director of Active Optics at Molex commented “Molex finds ECOC an important part of its Marcom strategy for a number of reasons; we get to participate in the market focus presentations to showcase how our technologies fit into the market place. More importantly we get to see how the optical ecosystem is coming together and how technologies are evolving and how Molex plays a part in this."

Beverly Lucas added “next year we are heading to Cannes and we are expecting an even bigger turnout from visitors and exhibitors from around the world.”

Over 1000 delegates also flocked to the conference which had two special symposiums and a variety of plenary speaker sessions attracting industry leaders, scientists and academia from around the globe.

The ECOC 2014 Exhibition will be held in Cannes from 22nd to 24th September. Please see www.ecocexhibition.com for show highlights and further details.