Launched in 2020, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the exhibition, ECOC introduced its Exhibition Industry Awards. The winners were announced live at the event – this year in Frankfurt, Germany – in the Product Focus theater on Tuesday, 24 September, with some winners repeating the success from last year's event in Glasgow, Scotland.

After receiving a trophy in the innovative photonics component category last year, Coherent has won the 2024 ECOC Exhibition Industry Award for best product in the data center innovation category for its Datacenter Lightwave Cross-Connect (DLXTM) Optical Circuit Switch.

“We are honored that our innovative product has received this prestigious award,” commented Dr Sanjai Parthasarathi, chief marketing officer. “This acknowledgment underscores the pioneering work of our team in developing technologies that shape the future of optical networking, including next-gen AI deployments.”

Also on the podium again were China Mobile, this time for the most innovative PON / 5G /FTTx Product, Huawei now got the optical transport award, Lightwave Logic, repeating their success in hybrid PIC / optical integration platform, and Marvell, this year in the most innovative pluggable transceiver / co-packaged module category.

Also on stage were Nanoscribe for most innovative chip-scale packaging / optical sub assembly, NewPhotonics in the most innovative photonics component category, Source Photonics got the post-deadline award for their Compact 50G PON OLT/ONU SFP56 and SFP-DD product family, Sumitomo Electric Europe, winning the best fiber / fiber component prize, and Yokogawa as most innovative test equipment.

Further reading: Industry Awards at ECOC 2023, wileyindustrynews.com, 11 October 2023 • Julie Sheridan Eng (Coherent): “Datacom in the era of AI – introducing higher-speed transceivers at a faster pace than ever before”, PhotonicsViews 20(4), September 2023, p. 1