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		Huawei is a global leader of ICT solutions. Continuously innovating based on customer needs, we are committed to enhancing customer experiences and creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises, and consumers. Our telecom network equipment, IT products and solutions, and smart devices are used in 170 countries and regions. We invest over 10% of our annual sales revenue into R&D and more than 45% of our 150,000 employees engage in R&D. Leveraging our experience and expertise in the ICT sector, we help bridge the digital divide and promote high-quality broadband connectivity for all. As an advocate of socioeconomic sustainability, we make every effort to support secure and stable network operations, and help customers and industries improve efficiency to drive low-carbon economic growth. By localizing our operations and building a global value chain, we help local innovators maximize their global value and share win-win outcomes. A better connected world is on the horizon. Working closely with partners, we endeavor to build an efficient and integrated digital logistics system which will enhance interconnectivity and interactivity – between people and people, people and things, and things and things – to spark infinite opportunities and potential for everyone everywhere and to move the world forward. For more information, please visit us at: www.huawei.com

		About Telefónica Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. With its best in class mobile, fixed and broadband networks, and innovative portfolio of digital solutions, Telefónica is transforming itself into a ‘Digital Telco’, a company that will be even better placed to meet the needs of its customers and capture new revenue growth. The company has a significant presence in 21 countries and a customer base of 319 million accesses around the world. Telefónica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy. Telefónica is a 100% listed company, with more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently comprises 4.938.417.514 ordinary shares traded on the Spanish Stock Market and on those in London, New York, Lima, and Buenos Aires.

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		At ADVA Optical Networking we're creating new opportunities for tomorrow's networks, a new vision for a connected world. Our intelligent telecommunications hardware, software and services have been deployed by several hundred service providers and thousands of enterprises. Over the past twenty years, our innovative connectivity solutions have helped to drive our customers’ networks forward, helped to drive their businesses to new levels of success. We forge close working relationships with all our customers. As your trusted partner we ensure that we're always ready to exceed your networking expectations. For more information on our products and our team, please visit us at: www.advaoptical.com.

		VLC Photonics is a company providing solutions for photonic integration, as a fabless chip design house. VLC Photonic members have a 12+ years expertise on the field, providing techno-economical feasibility studies and engineering consultancy, in-house PIC design, characterization and test, and full PIC prototyping through external manufacturing and packaging/assembly partners. VLC Photonics works with more than 15 photonic foundries, choosing the most suited substrate material for each application (Silicon-on-insulator, Silica/PLC, SiN/TripleX, InP/GaAs). VLC Photonics also works closely with foundries to contribute in the building of their Process Design Kits (PDKs), allowing external users to easily access their manufacturing ccapabilities

		FYLA Rises from the merge between a world leading Industrial group within the Laser sector and a world referred research group in the areas of Fiber Laser technology. As a result, FYLA has synergistic unified the manufacturing and industrialisation capacity with a full integration and control of the supply chain, with the excellence in R+D from a world top scientific group,becoming a unique One-Stop-Shop for generating the more powerful and novel Fiber Laser based Technologies for wide range of Industrial sectors, as well as for the Scientific community.

		Yenista Optics designs and manufactures fiber optic test and measurement equipment for a broad range of applications: from high bandwidth communications to a wide variety of scientific and research markets. The product portfolio includes an optical spectrum analyzer, tunable lasers, tunable filters, a passive optical component tester, variable attenuators and optical switches. The company also supplies optical modules and instruments on an OEM basis. The products are all designed and manufactured on-site in Yenista's state-of-the-art photonics manufacturing plant located at the headquarters in Lannion, France. Yenista has two subsidiaries; one in Newbury Park, California dedicated to the North American market and the other in Shanghai, for China.

		Anritsu is a leading supplier of test and measurement equipment for both Wireline and Wireless Communications. Best known, in the wireline transmission environment, for Signal Quality Analysers, OTDRs and Optical Spectrum Analysers, Anritsu provides a complete range of products for research and development, production test, as well as for installation, commissioning, maintenance and monitoring applications. Telecommunications are living a renewed push towards R&D, and Anritsu is at the edge of innovation, focusing on next to come customer needs for reduction in power consumption and cost efficiency. Anritsu this year introduces innovative and future proven test platforms for Next Generation Networks, High Speed Interconnect, Signal Modulation and Telecoms’ evolution to Silicon Photonics. More info at: www.anritsu.com

		Nature Photonics, the premier scientific journal in the optics area, is pleased to be sponsoring an award for the best post-deadline paper presentation at ECOC 2015. The award-winner will receive a certificate and a complementary 12-month subscription to the journal. http://www.nature.com/nphoton/