Speaking on the opening day of ECOC 2017 the President of Consortium for On-Board Optics (COBO), Brad Booth, highlighted next-gen technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT) stand to benefit from equipment manufacturers’ adoption of on-board optics. Booth explained how the data centre infrastructure will need new approaches such as on-board optics to better cope with the large increases in traffic...