Network X
14 - 16 October 2025
Paris Expo Porte de VersaillesParis, France

Ian Redpath
Practise Leader at Omdia
Speaker

Profile

Ian is the Practice Leader for Omdia’s components, transport and routing practice and is responsible for strategy, client, product, and team development. Managing a team of communications technology professionals, he covers how communications service providers, internet content providers, and enterprises utilize and deploy leading-edge optical networks, components, and routing technologies. Ian covers the data center interconnect, optical components, and optical networks systems markets. He also conducts custom research and consulting for clients. His team tracks market share for terrestrial and subsea optical networks, mobile xHaul, optical components, and service provider switching and routing vendors, and their latest research initiative is sorting how optical and routed networks will evolve for 5G. Ian is the 2019 winner of the NGON & DCI World People’s Choice Award and is a regular speaker at industry events. Ian received his MBA from Queen's University at Kingston in Canada and a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba.

Agenda Sessions

  • State of the Optical Network Industry

    15:00
  • Panel Discussion: All-optical Network in the Intelligent Era

    16:05
  • Chair’s Welcome Address and Omdia Optical Networks Update

    11:00
  • Fireside Chat: Beneath the Surface: Exploring the Role of Subsea Cables in Optical Networks

    16:15