OFC 2026 sets network performance path

As the optical industry moves from 800G to 1.6T, OFC 2026 will highlight the importance of network performance over raw speed. We're also tracking Shentel and Cable One's takes on broadband consolidation and FiberLight's expansion. Sean Buckley, Editor in Chief of Lightwave, breaks it down in this new Friday Five video. 

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Sean Buckley

Sean Buckley

Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove. 

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