14 - 16 October 2025

Paris Expo Porte de VersaillesParis, France

Kent Lidström
CTO at SmartOptics
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More than 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, he has held various positions at Transmode and Infinera including a 4-year assignment in the USA. Prior to this Kent had several assignments at Ericsson as a consultant.

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Smartoptics provides innovative optical networking solutions and devices for the new era of open networking. We focus on solving network challenges and increasing the competitiveness of our customers. Our customer base includes thousands of enterprises, governments, cloud providers, Internet exchanges as well as cable and telecom operators. We leverage modern software design principles and expand network horizons by having an open networking approach in everything we do. This allows our customers to break unwanted vendor lock-in, remain flexible and minimize costs. Our solutions are based on open networking standards and are used in metro and regional network applications that increasingly rely on data center services and specifications. The products we deliver are based on in-house developed hardware and software and enhanced through associated services. Smartoptics is a Scandinavian company founded in 2006. We partner with leading technology and network solution providers and uphold numerous certifications and approvals from major switching and storage solution providers such as Brocade, Cisco and Dell EMC. We have a global reach through our own sales force and more than 100 business partners including distributors, OEMs and VARs.

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PANEL DISCUSSION On the Horizon: Charting the Future of Optical Transport Networks
Oct 10, 16:10
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