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The StarLight Consortium participates in leveraging the OFCnet testbed for demonstrations in 400 Gbps WAN transport and for quantum networking. The annual OFC conference usually took place in March at the San Diego Convention Center, showcases optical, photonic, and fiber communications technology. In 2025, OFC was hosted in San Francisco, with plans to hold the conference in LA 2026-2028. Recently, the conference organized a testbed, OFCnet as part of the Exhibition floor to allow research experiments and demonstrations both within the convention center and through an external gateway with up to 34 Tbps of bandwidth. The gateway provides access to both CENIC and ESnet. As part of this initiative, OFC created a separate quantum track (SC-Q) within its technical program. The SC-Q track includes papers related to devices, systems and networks for quantum communications.
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