Nokia at OFC 2026
17 Mar 2026 - 19 Mar 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, CA
United States
The next wave of AI‑driven growth will be led by those who accelerate network innovation now.
Join Nokia at OFC 2026 (booth #1625) to see how industry‑leading optical network innovations are enabling scalable, secure infrastructure for AI‑powered applications.
Are you ready to Rock and Roll? Nokia is the host of the Full Spectrum Rock N’ Roll party and concert on March 18. Open to all OFC 2026 attendees. Visit the Full Spectrum website for full details.
The Nokia OFC demonstrations will showcase advanced optical networking technologies through live demos and real‑world deployment use cases, including:
Edge-to-core networking
Discover how our end-to-end optical and routing solutions seamlessly connect metro, long-haul and subsea networks to access-layer fiber, delivering high-capacity, secure connectivity from the edge to the core.
Data center interconnect and Scale-across
Experience ultra-high-bandwidth links that unite data centers with scalable optical transport, coherent routing and next-generation fiber technologies that deliver unprecedented capacity, reach and bandwidth.
Intra-DC low-power pluggable
See a compact, ultra-low power pluggable module that provides multi-terabit throughput for intra-data center connections, combining energy efficiency with massive scalability.
Data center fabric
Explore a full-stack fabric architecture that unifies routing, switching, gateway functions and spine-leaf topology, offering a flexible, high-performance backbone for any workload.
AI network automation
Dive into AI-driven use cases that automate the network lifecycle, optimize traffic with predictive policies, enable on-demand spectrum services, detect anomalies via fiber sensing, and streamline provisioning and commissioning.
Augmented reality
Experience immersive AR that visualizes intra-DC connectivity and next-gen optical transport.
Featured speakers and presenters
Below is a list of Nokia thought leaders addressing a broad range of industry trends and technologies at OFC 2026. For the full schedule of Nokia and Nokia Bell Labs presentations in the OFC conference, visit the OFC event page.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Optica Executive Forum
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
Tim Doiron - VP, Solution Marketing
Optica Executive Forum
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
David Heard - President, Network Infrastructure
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Optica Executive Forum
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
Tim Doiron - VP, Solution Marketing
Optica Executive Forum
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE
David Heard - President, Network Infrastructure
Show Floor
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PST
Expo Theater II
DCS Panel: Data Center Interconnect Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in the AI Era
Tim Doiron – Vice President, Solution Marketing
Rodney Dellinger - Webscale CTO & Head of Web Architecture