This ICTON Special Industrial Session is intended to promote the interactions between industrial and scientific communities of a mutual benefit, leading to a successful deployment of the Next-Generation All-Optical Networking. The program of the Session is composed of invited presentations from leading optical communication industrial organizations.

Confirmed invited presentations by:

Silvio Abrate, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy
Paving the Optical Future with Affordable Lightining-fast Links

Anna Borghesani, The Centre for Integrated Photonics, Ipswich, UK
Optoelectronic components for WDM-PON

Franco Docchio, University of Brescia, Italy
University-industry synergies in photonics and optoelectronics: the case of Brescia

Armin Ehrhardt, T-Systems Enterprise Services, Berlin, Germany
Next generation optical networks and new services: an operator's point of view

Yosef B. Ezra, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Applications of All-Optical Signal Processing in Modern Optical Communications

Madeleine Glick, Intel Research, Cambridge, UK
Electronic signal processing to improve system performance of optical interconnects

Zbigniew Kądzielski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Multimedia as a driving force for new optical infrastructure

Boris I. Lembrikov, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Analysis and Identification of Fast Transients in Optical Networks

Dan Sadot, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Vectorial MLSE equalizer for dispersion compensation in non-linear self phase modulation (SPM) induced optical channel

Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece
Dynamically reconfigurable transparent optical networking based on cross-layer optimization

Questions should be addressed to Dr. Uri Mahlab
at HIT (not HAIT) - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel, e-mail: uri@hit.ac.il,
or at ECI Telecom 30 Hasivim Street, Petah-Tikva , 49517, Israel, e-mail: Uri.mahlab@ecitele.com
or directly to Dr. Karin Ennser
at University of Wales, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK,
e-mail: k.ennser@swansea.ac.uk.