Interview Series: Ulrich Dropmann shares Nokia’s expectations from the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from Nokia’s Head of Standardization and Industry Environment, Ulrich Dropmann, as he answers, “What are your expectations from IOWN Global Forum?”
Interview Series: Ulrich Dropmann shares Nokia’s vision and how it supports the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from Ulrich Dropmann, Head of Standardization and Industry Environment at Nokia, as he answers, “Tell us about Nokia’s vision and how it supports the IOWN Global Forum vision?”
Interview Series: Tomohiro Otani shares KDDI Corporation’s message to their peers in the industry

Hear from KDDI Corporation’s Deputy General Manager, Tomohiro Otani, as he answers, “What would be your message to your peers about the IOWN Global Forum?”
Interview Series: Tomohiro Otani shares how KDDI Corporation aligns with the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from KDDI Corporation’s Deputy General Manager, Tomohiro Otani, as he answers, “Tell us about technologies of interest that are aligned with the IOWN Global Forum.”
Interview Series: Tomohiro Otani shares KDDI Corporation’s expectations from the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from KDDI Corporation’s Deputy General Manager, Tomohiro Otani, as he answers, “What are your expectations from the IOWN Global Forum?”
Interview Series: Tomohiro Otani shares KDDI Corp.’s vision and how it supports the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from Tomohiro Otani, Deputy General Manager of KDDI Corporation, as he answers, “Please tell us about KDDI Corporation’s vision and how it supports the IOWN Global Forum’s 2030 vision?”
The IOWN Global Forum’s Member Meeting Advances Mission for Photonics Revolution
VANCOUVER – 15 May 2024
IOWN Global Forum 4th Annual Member Meeting April 2024 – Highlights
Executive Summary On 23-26 April, 2024, the IOWN Global Forum hosted its 4th Annual Member Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, welcoming 210 registrants from over 86 organizations, with an additional 137 online participants, from 14 different countries. Additional attendees joined both in-person and online on Thursday 25 April for the FUTURES event, the first ever Member […]
Interview Series: Gilles Bourdon shares how Orange aligns with the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from Orange Innovation’s Vice President Wireline Network & Infrastructure, Gilles Bourdon, as he answers, “Tell us about technologies of interest that are aligned with IOWN Global Forum”
Interview Series: Gilles Bourdon shares Orange’s expectations from the IOWN Global Forum

Hear from Orange Innovation’s Vice President Wireline Network & Infrastructure, Gilles Bourdon, as he answers, “What are your expectations from IOWN Global Forum and how do you plan to support the Forum’s activities?”
Interview Series: Gilles Bourdon shares Orange’s vision and how it supports the IOWN Global Forum

Gilles Bourdon, Vice President Wireline Network & Infrastructure, Orange Innovation on how Orange and IOWN Global Forum share a vision for the future.
IOWN Global Forum Announces First Public Event on Transformative Power of Photonics
VANCOUVER – April 3, 2024
Unlocking the full potential of the All-Photonics Network

Most of our modern communication technologies rely on electrons to transmit information. However this requires increasing power that generates heat and inefficiencies. In addition electrons present limitations that prevents us from achieving a near instantaneous, hyperconnected world that we have been waiting for. Photonics based technologies offer an alternative solution. At the IOWN Global Forum, […]
Open APN Flexible Bridging Service PoC
This document is a report on the results of Flexible Bridging Service PoC listed in the PoC reference document “Open APN Architecture PoC Reference v1.0“.
FUTURES – Powering Tomorrow with Photonics

Step into the future of communications & infrastructure at FUTURES – a public access session of the IOWN Global Forum Annual Member Meeting. Join 200+ leaders envisioning a photonics-driven world, sparking groundbreaking discussions!
IOWN Global Forum Unveils Photonics-Driven Future at Mobile World Congress 2024

BARCELONA—February 12, 2024
IOWN Global Forum attends ITU-T CxO Roundtable in Dubai to accelerate collaboration for international standards
DUBAI―ITU-T CxO Roundtable 2023―December 5, 2023
Investigation in Power Consumption of Mobile Fronthaul Solutions
The multiple number of mobile fronthaul solutions were implemented to meet the requirement of the emerging disaggregated radio access network for 5G and beyond. The intention of this Proof of Concept (PoC) is to demonstrate fixed WDM fronthaul solutions that currently work in SK Telecom’s 5G network and to verify their performance in terms of […]
Sensor Data Aggregation and Ingestion
In the Area Management Security Use Case of IOWN GF, the energy efficiency of computing infrastructure needs to be drastically improved for processing data in real-time image analysis of video streams from a massive number of surveillance cameras. As a solution to this problem, we conducted this PoC employing IOWN GF architecture such as Open […]
Mobile Front Haul over APN PoC Step1
As Step 1 of the PoC, we measured the level at which O-RAN KPIs can be met when an APN device is inserted into the mobile fronthaul between RU and DU. We demonstrated that the application of the APN solution to the mobile fronthaul is viable as a business use case. Based on the results […]
Industry Event: ICCE 2024
IOWN Global Forum will be presenting “Creating Our Future with Consumer Technology” panel session. This session presents experts’ view about two important topics for the evolution of computing and networking technologies. The first one is the coordination between radio networks and optical networks and the second one is the coordination between computing infrastructures and networks. The […]
Industry Event: OFC 2024

IOWN Global Forum will be presenting “IOWN Global Forum’s Open APN for the evolution of mobile networks and cloud-and-edge computing.” The session will review the Forum’s work to define Open All Photonics Networks (Open APN), which is an optical circuit-switched network that can be used for the closer integration of optical transport and radio access or […]
Industry Event: Mobile World Congress 2024

IOWN Global Forum will be hosting a Power90 Session of guest speakers and a group panel that will discuss the future of IOWN technologies, the work of the Forum, and how these efforts will impact the telecom industry.
IOWN Global Forum 7th Member Meeting October 2024 – Highlights

On 8-11 October 2024, the IOWN Global Forum hosted its 7th Member Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan