The Moonlight Channel currently hosts 285 video presentations, the latest of which feature the following companies or organizations:

In this discussion, Alan Mitchell and Maarten Buchli of Vtesse Networks, a fast-growing UK private optical networking company, outline their need to cost-effectively replace large enterprise switches, while Andy Howard answers questions on deployment of the Transmode Ethernet Demarcation Unit (EDU).

Transmode CEO Karl Thedeen, after his first year in the role, discusses his view of the WDM market addressed by the company, and future plans including an expanded sales team, market and growth strategies and future product developments.

Starting with the history and original concept of the company, CEO Seamus Brennan gives an outline of CUSP's secure, scalable document management Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, including a discussion of the addressable market through its VAR partnership model.

Alex Schoenfelder, VP/GM Integrated Photonics at JDSU, explains how innovation at the photonic layer is creating the capabilities that allow integrated products for the Agile Optical Network, and gives details specifically of the applications of InP, LiNbO3, GaAs and PLCs.

Stephan Rettenberger, Marketing Director at ADVA Optical Networking, discusses the development of the telecom market in 2008 and ADVA's role of delivering bandwidth in the second mile, noting the company's key advantages of intelligence, scalability and simplicity.

Strategic partners ADC and Novera Optics share their views on the market drivers behind WDM-PON technology, the benefits and type of application for WDM-PON, and finally the competitive advantages of ADC's PONy Express solution, including pricing issues.

Starting with a look at the drivers behind NGNs, Jy Bhardwaj, VP/GM of JDSU's Agile Optical Networking unit describes the need for multiple ROADM solutions to address variable market needs and introduces JDSU's complete next generation ROADM portfolio.

Starting with an overview of the origins of Soapstone Networks, founder and CTO Larry Dennison discusses the applications and benefits of the company's Provider Network Controller technology as well as the partnership strategy and potential markets.

Larry Dennison, founder of Soapstone Networks, outlines the need of carriers for a virtual network approach to delivering Ethernet services and how the network operations of standard topology building blocks can be supported by the Soapstone Provider Network Controller.

ADVA Optical Networking's Christine Keck describes how new Ethernet services and traffic management capabilities, such as provided by ADVA's flagship FSP 150CCf-825 service demarcation device, offer business customers an alternative to high-cost dedicated or leased line infrastructure services.

A tour of JDSU's wafer fabrication facility in Silicon Valley, a Class 100 fab that employs 200-mm stepper-based lithography for the high-volume manufacture of PLC components such as AWGs, optical channel monitors, mux/demuxes and ROADMs.

Executives from Santur, Verizon and Ciena discuss how component suppliers, systems vendors and their service provider customers can work together to smooth the path and reduce the bottlenecks to achieve the high data rates demanded by end customers.

Verizon, Santur and Ciena executives consider some key challenges for the optical components industry, including tunability, pluggability and cost versus flexibility, and describe key breakthroughs they would like to see in the future.

Executive Chairman Gregory Koss discusses the strong growth of BTI Systems and the broadening product line driven by carrier requirements for high-bandwidth services, including the partnering and direct sales approach, customer support and future innovations.

Stefan Ekman, Founder and CEO of Proximion, a developer of optical modules and subsystems based on very long Fibre Bragg Grating technology, gives an overview of the company and the business environment in which it operates, noting the opportunities and challenges.

Tom Fawcett presents an overview of JDSU's investments in optical transceiver products for Ethernet, Fibre Channel and SONET/SDH applications, noting the benefits of the Picolight acquisition and the company's strong track record of delivering quality products in volume.

Dhrupad Trivedi, GM of JDSU's Transmission Modules Business, explains the role of tunability as a key enabler of agile optical networks and how JDSU believes it is well-positioned from a technology and operational perspective to drive smaller form factors and higher speeds in the tunable transmission space.