Wavelengths Americas

Join us for lunch in the exhibition.  Take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.

Prepare for the future of network security by joining our seminar on quantum-safe networks, where we’ll explore the transformative impact of quantum computing on telecommunications. Gain a solid understanding of quantum cryptography fundamentals, including key generation, entropy, and encryption, while learning how emerging quantum technologies pose new risks to traditional network security. The seminar will cover key strategies such as Public Key Cryptography (PKC), Pre-Shared Keys (PSK), Quantum-Key Distribution (QKD), and defense-in-depth, offering critical insights into safeguarding telecommunications networks. Additionally, participants will get an overview of the Nokia 1830 Security Management Server (SMS), a crucial enabler of quantum-safe networks, and how it integrates with encryption-capable transponders.

Designed for telecommunications professionals and anyone interested in securing their systems for the future, this seminar is accessible to all, with no advanced expertise required. Attendees will leave with knowledge of crypto-agility, layered protection, and building trust in a quantum-ready world.

Hear directly from leading utilities as they share real-world use cases and lessons learned from their network modernization and digital transformation initiatives. This interactive forum will showcase how utilities are leveraging secure, resilient, and mission-critical communications networks to support grid modernization, digital substations, advanced automation, AI-driven operations, and enhanced reliability. Nokia specialists, partners and your fellow utilities will provide insights on the communications infrastructure, expertise, and services that help design, deploy, and manage the critical networks enabling these initiatives. Connect with your peers, exchange ideas, and explore the latest trends shaping the future of utility communications.

Detailed agenda:

2:00-2:15 pm Introduction
2:15-2:30 pm IP welcome message
2:40-3:00 pm One foundation, many missions
3:00-3:30 pm Building a functional test lab to validate the next-generation OT network
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-4:30 pm On demand digital twin with NSP
4:30-5:00 pm Lessons learned from TDM and MPLS coexistence
5:00-5:15 pm Thank you and forum wrap-up
 

Start your journey toward optical network automation with an overview of network automation applications and areas that can benefit from automation.  We'll explore Nokia's optical network automation ecosystem, including WaveSuite applications and custom implementations designed to meet specific customer needs. The framework is built around several key components that support three core automation pillars, defining various categories of use cases. Within these categories, you'll discover real-world examples and learn how to enable them using the appropriate WaveSuite applications.

These use cases include optical network rollouts and transformations, network upgrades, flow-through provisioning, closed-loop operations, spectrum defragmentation, advanced network analysis and diagnostics, bandwidth on demand, calendaring, secure communications, and many others.

After a full day of hackathons, masterclasses and user groups, we invite you to join us for our welcome reception in the exhibition.  Explore the many demonstrations prepared for you, forge connections and embrace the spirit of the SReXperts community.  Join us for an evening filled with great conversations, delicious food, and opportunities to connect with fellow professionals.

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Join Osvaldo DiCampli, SEVP and head of GSCO Global NI Segment, as he kicks off Americas Wavelengths 2026. In addition to welcoming everyone, Osvaldo will remind us how together we will advance connectivity in the AI era.

As the head of Optical Networking, Ron Jonson has witnessed significant changes over his decades-long career. Hear how that experience has shaped his perspective regarding the dynamic trends driving the industry and how optical networks must continue to evolve and innovate to meet the needs of the AI supercycle.

In this session, Alan Weckel, 650 Group, will share his unique industry insights and perspectives on data centers, accelerated computing and the network infrastructure needed to interconnect it.

Join us for lunch in the exhibition.  Take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.

The AI supercycle is creating great opportunities for service providers. As AI workloads evolve from centralized training clusters to highly distributed inferencing environments, service providers are uniquely positioned to play a critical role in the emerging AI economy. Key opportunities include high-capacity data center interconnect (DCI), managed optical fiber networks, edge AI infrastructure, colocation services, GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), and secure AI-enabled connectivity.

What will optical networks look like in the AI era? Join Julia Larikova for an overview of the market forces and technology innovations transforming optical transport, including data center interconnect, coherent optical engines, advanced line systems and the roadmap to higher-capacity, more sustainable networks.

Nokia's market leading end-to-end optical portfolio is spanning access, metro, long-haul, subsea, and data center interconnect applications, including the latest advancements across the 1830 PSS, GX, and photonic engines. We will highlight recent developments in coherent optical engines, optical line systems, network automation, quantum-safe networking, and AI-driven operations that are enabling network operators to maximize performance while reducing cost, power consumption, and operational complexity.

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In this moderated session, we will explore how telecom providers are approaching both the challenges and opportunities in the AI super cycle.  What is top of mind for each of them? Where are they being cautious and where are they leaning in as they share their unique perspectives and plans for winning the future? 

As AI-driven traffic and services put more and more demand on network operations, automation is becoming a necessity and a source of competitive advantage. This session explores the evolution of optical network automation from closed loop to self-healing, including how AI, digital twins and cross-domain orchestration can help imporve efficiency, speed service delivery and improve overall network operations.

Subsea cables and terrestrial backhaul networks are increasingly operating as a unified fabric - connecting people and applications to data centers and each other globally. Learn how new approaches to network architecture, C+L-band transport and coherent pluggable optics are helping telecom providers, AI and cloud providers and subsea consortiums maximize capacity, simplify operations and build more efficient global connectivity networks for the AI era.

After a full day of sessions and before you head out for the evening, join us for drinks back in the exhibition. It's the perfect chance to relax, continue conversations, and connect with peers in a casual setting.

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AI has moved beyond experimentation and entered a phase of unprecedented global investment, reshaping industries, economies, and digital infrastructure at an extraordinary pace. From hyperscalers and cloud providers to governments, telecom operators, enterprises, and emerging AI-native companies, organizations around the world are committing trillions of dollars to build the computing, networking, and energy infrastructure required to support the AI era. Examine where investments are flowing, who the key players are, and which application trends are creating the next wave of opportunities.

Data center interconnect is the hottest market today. Traditional DCI and moreover the interconnect of AI clusters (scale-across) require massive capacities for interconnects. Transponder and line systems are becoming more optimized for these applications. We'll review the latest DCI solutions and the value and benefits they can deliver. From metro and regional deployments to long-haul and subsea connectivity, DCI is the critical foundation that enables distributed AI.

How do we evolve from scripted automation to autonomous network operations? This presentation looks at the technologies, operational frameworks and AI-driven capabilities that are transforming optical networking, including predictive fault detection and intelligent troubleshooting, along with automated service delivery and self-healing network operations.

Optical networks are already the backbone of our modern digital society, but beyond simply carrying data, they can act as powerful sensing platforms that can monitor conditions along thousands of kilometers of fiber. Uncover how advances in coherent optics, signal processing and AI-powered analytics make new approaches to network diagnostics, environmental monitoring and infrastrucure sensing possible, and how to use these capabilities gain additional network insights and develop new applications and services.

Telecom service providers are continually challenged by growing network complexity, increased traffic demands and pressure to do more with fewer resources. Fortunately, AI and automation solutions are now mature and robust enough to help. Explore how AI-enable services, digital twins, test automation and closed-loop operations can streamline optical network planning, deployment and operations on the road to more autonomous networks.

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Enterprise and mission-critical networks are preparing their optical infrastructure for AI-driven applications and the next wave of digital transformation. Join Puneet and enterprise vertical experts as they share the unique challenges and opportunities facing enterprises and the wholesale telecom providers that support their connectivity demands.

Resolving optical networking issues quickly is important, but preventing them is even better. Learn how Intelligent Care, in the form of AI-powered network services, helps move from reactive support to proactive service assurance through earlier detection, faster diagnosis and expert-guided resolution. The result is improved service continuity, reduced operational risk and greater confidence in network operations.

Technology and our opertional environments are changing rapidly and its difficult to keep up. Join Karen Lennon to see how Nokia learning and development can enhance your knowledge, skills and certifications to succeeed in the AI supercycle.

Advances in quantum computing are creating a new security challenge that could fundamentally disrupt today's encryption methods, requiring organizations to rethink how they secure their networks and digital assets. Explore technologies such as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Symmetric Key Infrastructure (SKI), and various deployment models.

Join us for lunch in the exhibition—take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.

Many AI applications cannot tolerate the latency, data movement and operational constraints of traditional cloud architectures. Discover how AI Grid architectures distribute intelligence across networks, edge locations and data centers, and learn about the key deployment considerations required to support real-time, mission-critical and sovereign AI services.

Behind every high-capacity transport system, coherent pluggable, and data center interconnect solution lies a sophisticated ecosystem of optical engines, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), lasers, modulators, and advanced packaging technologies. These foundational innovations are enabling the next generation of optical networks. See an inside look at the latest advancements in optical subsystems and components that are redefining performance, power efficiency, scalability, and integration across optical networking applications.

AI is quickly moving from theory to practice in optical networks. Learn how AIOps that combines AI agents, domain-specific intelligence and automation frameworks can accelerate fault detection, root-cause analysis and network optimization to improve efficiency, resilience and operational decision making.

Join Tod Sizer, Nokia Bell Labs, and Walid Wakim, CTO office, for an exciting look ahead at the breakthrough technologies, research areas and innovations that will shape the future of our connectivity networks. Amongst other things, we'll consider the impacts to architectures, operations and economics.

Join us for the closing session as we wrap up the event, share some exciting news about next year, and draw the winners of our door prizes. Don’t miss your chance to win and be among the first to hear what’s coming next!