The lecture include: Needs of optical networks, Fiber maps around globe, Definitions of: Optical Communications, Light and Optics, Laser and Fiber, Fiber Communications and Free Space Optics. The lecture illustrates: Optical Communication System and Submarine Cables. This is followed by the description of the great revolutions in this field, which are: Optical Amplifier (~1990) 1st Revolution, Fiber Bragg Grating, FBG (~1985), 2nd Revolution, and Visible Light Communication, VLC ~ (2010), 3rd Revolution. Applications including Fiber-To-The-Home FTTH and Endoscopes or Fiber Scopes are also explained.

For more understanding, some videos are to be displayed showing optical fibers, fabrication, undersea cables, cables repair and VLC.

Wi-Fi (WLAN) has become a 2 Trillion USD market and is on its way to become 3 trillion soon¹. The economic value of Wi-Fi has become undeniable, up to a level the one of the key needs of life has become Wi-Fi accessibility in conjunction with battery life.

Wi-Fi also has become the mean of connectivity, far above mobile connectivity². The off-loading isn’t the Wi-Fi for the cellular networks, but the cellular has become the alternative, when there is no Wi-Fi available.

Through time, it seems that Wi-Fi and Cellular is doing a rat-race on who will become the leading factor in the end. The current 5G presented applications are somehow the same being presented when LTE was introduced, even when UMTS was announced^3,4. Still, the constant increase in applications needing internet access, keeps on changing the demand of each the technologies.

Instead of working against each other, we should start understand the end-user needs and related applications; each solution and ideal technology will deliver the capabilities. This won’t be only 5G, Wi-Fi or anything else.

The talk describes the idea of cooperative security for the Internet and 5G. The idea of cooperative security is that all good guys would cooperate automatically to mitigate all hacking over the Internet sharing evidence of misbehavior, constraining detected infected hosts and deploying security patches as quickly as they become available. The talk outlines the solution called Customer Edge Switching as an implementation of cooperative security. The talk discusses the design choices in the architecture and describes briefly some use cases under the constraints set by the network neutrality regulation. The technical details can be found in www.re2ee.org and naturally e.g. in IEEE Explore. Most concepts presented in the talk have been proven by Proof of Concept or running code level experimental implementation. Our current work is targeted to complementing the body of running code for further research and development. Code is published in GitHub/Aalto5G.

This summit will explore the question of how the ‘5G era’ will transform human existence, and the potential impact on markets, economies and society as a whole. The key technological and architectural enablers will be discussed, and predictions will be made for the future of all things. Connected vehicles will not only be driverless, but ownerless, especially in crowded urban areas, where cars remain unused 95% of the time and rapidly depreciating. In order to deliver a regular tailored service, partnerships are forming between media companies, automotive manufacturers and other ecosystem players. Increasingly, traditionally functional objects such as vehicles or homes are becoming adaptable enough to mould themselves to the preferences and tastes of their users. End user knowledge creates loyalty and regular custom. A lack of ownership does not have to mean a less personal experience. Arguably, items like cars are becoming an extension of one’s home and office, wherein they listen to the same music, experience the same connectivity and comfort. The implementation of technology allowing users to customize their shared car experience through music, car layout and even where they are located. The surge in self driving technology and the connected user will allow cars to provide a service entirely customized to the person riding it, their mood, time of day or even their destination.