Wavelengths EMEA-LAT
21-23 April 2026
Madrid, Spain
Wavelengths EMEA-LAT 2026
Madrid, Spain
Join us during the exhibition hours noted below and immerse yourself in a series of captivating demonstrations specially prepared for you. Discover interactive displays, live presentations, and hands-on experiences that will leave you inspired and informed.
Exhibition hours
Tuesday, 21 April
12:00 – 20:00
Wednesday, 22 April
10:30 – 18:00
Thursday, 23 April
9:00 – 15:00
Demonstrations
Explore Nokia optical subsystems and the foundation of Nokia vertical integration. The demo consists of four 60x60cm acrylic panels that display real, static subsystems hardware. These include optical front-ends such as InP with PIC, SiGe, ICTR70/140, and SiPh featuring coherent driver and modulator, receiver, CSTAR 200/400, CSTAR 800. Additionally, pluggables digital coherent optics (DCO) are showcased.
Don’t miss the opportunity to explore the cutting-edge technology behind Nokia’s ICE-X 800G ZR/ZR+ pluggable, OLS/RD66 and the journey to reduce pluggables power consumption. Join us and feel free to invite your customers to attend this interactive demo. Step into an immersive Augmented Reality experience that brings to life nano technologies that are often impossible to see with the naked eye, including ICE-X 800G ZR/ZR+ pluggable, OLS/RD66 C+L ROADM, and the journey of reducing pluggables power consumption with ICE-D. Each demo lasts approximately 15 minutes.
Explore the 1830 GX compact modular platform optimized for subsea and SLTE applications. The demo showcases the latest 1.2 Tb/s per wavelength ICE-7 optical engine, delivering maximum capacity per fiber. Experience the CHM7X 1.2 Tb/s transponder in the G32 chassis, enabling up to 4.8 Tb/s WDM and 4.8 Tb/s client capacity per RU. Additionally, the demo highlights the 1830 GX G32 as an SLTE/OLS solution, supporting 20-degree ROADM (RD20), colorless add-drop (CAD10), ASE insertion, high-resolution Optical Channel Monitor (OCM), and OTDR, all within a compact 2RU chassis.
Compact Metro Edge configuration featuring the 1830 PSS-8 with S13X400(H or E) mated to 18CE300 and the 1830 PSS-4II with 18CE300 and 100G-ZR. Accurate synchronization distribution and recovery are supported across all types of UNI interfaces, including 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, and 100GbE. The demo highlights the new SYNCTL card, in-band PTP transport over 100G-ZR DCO, synchronization at the edge on PSS-4II with 4EC3T in a static display, and in-service measurement of Ethernet protection switching time.
Stay connected with our compact solution designed for the metro access area. The PSS4II shelf, with a size of just 2RU, enables CPE-like deployments while supporting the same range of service cards as its larger counterparts (PSS8/16ii/32). It features ODUk switching with SNCP, 4EC3T class C and D timing mock-up, and 12P120S support in PSS-4II (R25.12). Discover the new state-of-the-art PSS-8 NG shelf (mock-up), paving the way for future high-speed cards.
Introducing the next-generation network interface device architecture designed to be compact, multi-service, high-density, and low-power. Our 1830 PSD-200 is a 100G OTN NID offering a multiprotocol 100G muxponder with L1 encryption optimized for metro edge and access applications.
This live “attack–defender” demo illustrates the weaknesses in the privacy of daily communications and demonstrates the optical network's capabilities to mitigate and remediate these vulnerabilities. The security officer operates within its SOC, evaluates risks, and defines strategies to secure communications by leveraging NI-ON automated defenses to detect and localize potential attacks while increasing communication protection. Meanwhile, a Man in the Middle (MITM) attacker attempts to steal sensitive data and network information. The demo showcases various attack scenarios such as fiber tapping, crypto break, data-in-transit theft, data-in-transit tampering, and communication and network discovery. It also highlights layered defenses, including what-if encryption analysis to define strategies, intrusion detection and localization using OID and OTDR, and measures to protect communications by enhancing crypto strength, agility, resilience, and isolation.
This bench demonstrates QS Layer 1 encryption enabled by the Nokia QSN solution, showcasing the various hardware and software product components (NE & NM). It features a compact CPE configuration with the 1830 PSD and S13X400E in the 1830 PSS4-II. Layer 1 encrypted L1/L2 MEF Ethernet (100GE to GE) and Fiber Channel services are established to connect both ends. The 1830 SMS framework enables multitenant key management functions, orchestrating the generation and distribution of QS keys across the network. A true Quantum Key Delivery Network (QKDN) is implemented with two links from different suppliers, providing robust QS keys derived from physics randomness, whether classical or quantum, to secure communications as math-based cryptography evolves.
This immersive purpose-driven security demo showcases on a 3D-printed playground how Nokia NI protects strategic mission-critical networks against advanced threats such as eavesdropping, sabotage, and DDoS attacks. Combining digital and physical elements, the demo provides a simplified yet intuitive and realistic representation of a real end-to-end communication infrastructure within a specific segment use case, such as defense. It presents various scenarios, including eavesdropping, sabotage, and DDoS attacks, and demonstrates how Nokia technologies like fiber sensing, Quantum-safe networking, and data center networking can not only assess and protect but also react to these threats, ensuring the highest level of privacy, reliability, and resiliency for strategic communications.
Discover the new Enhanced PSE6s cards with superior performance and advanced features in the “E” series. These include 5x400GE client split over two 1T lambdas (DMAT6E), 400GE encrypted transport (DMAT6E), and transverse compatibility with all PSE-6s cards across PSS, PSI-M, PSS-24x, and the new PSS-hc in both C and L bands. The cards support 800GE transport (800GBASE-DR8 as per IEEE802.3df), C+L OMSP (multiplex protection), and a simplified C-F ROADM without fiber shuffle. They enable PSS-24x 400GE transport over PSE6s (OTUC4 on 2UC1TH) and 400GE client protection (PSE-6s, PSE-Vs, PSE-Vc). Additional features include ODUk SNCP interworking of S13X400H ADM with PSS-x, 100G ZR client support (e.g., S6AD600H connected to a remote 100G ZR endpoint), and the MCS44 mockup (4x4 MultiCast Switch for small CDC-F nodes).
Nokia optical solutions provide seamless and interoperable CPE-to-core connectivity through an end-to-end portfolio designed for unified management across all network segments, including access, metro, long-haul, and core. The 1830 PSS/PSS-x/PSD platforms ensure application-optimized performance with cross-platform compatibility, enabling a unified and scalable infrastructure across the entire network footprint. Integrated multi-layer networking delivers a versatile multi-service optical transport solution, seamlessly combining WDM transport and OTN for aggregation and switching, optimizing network scalability and efficiency.
The next-generation platform is adesigned to address metro, long-haul, and DCI applications, offering carrier-class capabilities tailored to existing CSP deployment practices. It is a future-proof solution supporting current and upcoming coherent generations and applications beyond PSE-6s and 800ZR+. With a high-capacity pay-as-you-grow model, it features a pluggable architecture scaling up to 48Tb/s in 6RU and up to 120Tb/s in 15RU. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing 1830 PSS networks, ensuring compatibility and scalability for evolving network demands.
The Nokia Thin Transponder portfolio is showcased in both 300mm (PSS) and 600mm (GX) environments, featuring CHMQ6 and S2AD800H modules. It highlights 800G coherent pluggables with live traffic, demonstrating market-leading multi-haul coherent optics. The solution is designed to utilize different line systems, including PSS and GX, ensuring flexibility and interoperability across diverse network environments.
Nokia delivers effective and operationally friendly DCI solutions that scale seamlessly across applications. The portfolio showcases the highly integrated C+L band OLS for hyperscale operations, the innovative multi-rail ILA (passive), and coherent routing with 800G coherent pluggables integrated into Nokia routers. Additionally, it highlights lower capacity, shorter distance, and cost-effective DCI solutions enabled by FOADM configurations, ensuring flexibility and efficiency for diverse deployment needs.
The “Mix and match your preferred transponders with WaveSuite or Transcend” demo showcases the network automation platforms enhancements to support 1830 GX optical transponders onto 1830 PSS line systems and 1830 PSS transponders onto 1830 GX line systems, respectively. Support for network automation such as analytics, AI, and infrastructure optical planning will also be shown.
The “Extend control and extract insights with multivendor IPoDWDM management” demo showcases the capabilities of an optical-domain controller to execute read/write actions on coherent pluggables hosted on a 3rd party router using either Transcend Open Wave Manager or WaveSuite southbound interface acting independent from the IP network layer.
The “Smart energy management: Elevating optical networks for sustainability and efficiency” demo highlights the advancements in WaveSuite. It includes Automatic Power-Enabled configuration, where transponders automatically switch to a Power-Enabled state when new connections are provisioned. It also features Automatic Power-Disabled configuration, where transponders automatically switch to a Power-Disabled state when connections are fully de-provisioned. Additionally, Power-consumption Savings Reporting quantifies the energy savings achieved through smart energy management.
Using the GMPLS control plane, in failure scenarios where a backup path cannot support the full bandwidth of a wavelength, restoration fails, resulting in a traffic outage. Elastic restoration enables the wavelength to be restored at the maximum available capacity. This approach provides higher availability, as partially restored traffic is better than none, and lower costs through more efficient use of restoration resources and reduced resource requirements.
The “Accelerate service delivery with optical NaaS and multi-network management” demo showcases multiple independently managed service provider networks used for both spectrum and wholesale services.
The demo focuses on multiple use cases:
- an automated AI and Cloud provider spectrum service fulfillment and assurance reporting process to rapidly deliver high-capacity DCI services
- network resource insights for Managed Optical Fiber Network (MOFN)
- end-to-end service provisioning across multiple networks
The “Achieve one day service delivery and optimize your supply chain” demo showcases the capabilities of a customized closed-loop fulfillment and planning workflow operation to build Layer1 infrastructure and service connectivity in the transport layer. The demo highlights how operators can accelerate time-to-market, shorten inventory re-stocking cycles using just in-time processes and simplify their service provisioning lifecycle.
The “Rapidly resolve faults with AI-assisted troubleshooting” demo showcases the capabilities of WS AI to process alarm storms, diagnose root-causes, and provide maintenance recommendations to resolve network faults and maintain SLA compliance. The demo highlights how operators can accelerate time-to-repair and simplify network operations.
The “Optimize the network with AI-driven defragmentation, implementation and commissioning” demo showcases the ability to free-up optical spectrum in a congested route onto a deployed network. A simplified instructional constraint-based contextual language prompt interface will be used to fulfill the request and maintenance action. The demonstration also showcases the automation tool to rapidly commission new shelf nodes to fulfill the requested capacity demand.
Data center solutions require both high capacity and low latency to support the full AI lifecycle. Hollow-core fiber (HCF) is a strong candidate for enabling these capabilities in a scalable way compared with legacy solid-core fibers. This demo shows the advantages of deploying HCF for distributed data‑center environments over standard single‑mode fiber (SMF) in a bidirectional C‑band transmission.
This demonstration compares the transmission performance of a 60‑km bidirectional link using HCF and SMF. The evaluation focuses on optical signal‑to‑noise ratio (OSNR) and latency.
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Event details
21-23 April 2026
Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel & Conference Centre
Madrid, Spain
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