Papers
March 16, 2025: MOPA Market outlook v26a
March 16, 2025: MOPA Requirements and Blueprints v26a
March 16, 2025: MOPA New technologies v26a
September 22, 2024 : MOPA Technical Paper Implementation considerations for tight sync v1.0
March 25, 2024 : MOPA Technical paper on Optical pluggable performance for tight synchronization v1.0
March 25, 2024 : MOPA Technical paper on Coherent Lite for Mobile Networks v1.0
December 18, 2023 : MOPA Introduction and Overview
Specifications
May 17, 2023 : MOPA Remote Monitoring Specification v1.0
Presentations
MOPA Workshop “Is hollow-core fiber ready for 6G? – Technologies and Standards”, at ECOC, September 28, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark:
- Hollow Core Fiber for Mobile, The fiber journey for Mobile, Philippe Chanclou, Orange, France
- The importance of optical networks for mobile systems, Stefan Melin, Telia Company
- 6G Transport Requirements and Its Progress Based on AR-HCF, Dong Wang, China Mobile Research Insitute, China
- Update on standards for mobile optics and opportunities with HCF, Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo Electric, USA
- Optical auto-negotiation for mobile fronthaul links, Ulf Parkholm, Ericsson, Sweden
- Long reach, low power fronthaul DWDM: quasi-coherent technologies, Jesper Bevensee Jensen, Bifrost, Denmark
- Accelerating 6G Deployment with Hollow Core Fiber Infrastructure Rich Baca, Relativity Networks / Creol UCF, USA
- Hollow core fibre/cable for 6G, David Mechin, Photonics Bretagne, France
MOPA Scientific program, f2f meeting at ECOC, September 28, September 28, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark:
MOPA Session “Optical Solutions for Open Cloud RAN with 6G”, at OFC, April 1, 2025, San Francisco, USA:
- Significance of Pluggable Specifications for RAN for Operators, Mark Watts, Verizon, United States
- Leveraging LPO for MOPA Fronthaul Blueprints Beyond 5G, Ryan Latchman, MACOM, United States
- Pluggable Optics Tight Sync: The Road to Systemization, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
- Optical Rate and Technology Auto-Negotiation for Mobile Fronthaul Links, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
MOPA Scientific program, f2f meeting at OFC, March 30, 2025, San Francisco, USA:
MOPA Scientific program, f2f meeting at ECOC, Sept 22, 2024, Frankfurt, Germany:
- Recent Advances in High Baud Rate IM/DD and Coherent Transmission, David plant, McGill University, Canada
- High symbol rate transmissions with SiP modulators, Armands Ostrovskis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
MOPA Workshop “MOBILE OPTICS FOR 6G AND OPEN CLOUD RAN: NEW CONCEPTS OR MORE OF THE SAME?”, at ECOC, September 22, 2024, Frankfurt, Germany:
- Optical-Wireless Cooperative Control with eCTI toward Beyond 5G and 6G, Kenji Miyamoto, NTT, Japan
- Optical Pluggables for Next Generation Mobile Fronthaul, Hongseok Shin, SK Telecom, South Korea
- The expected advances in fixed access networks for mobile networks, Philippe Chanclou, Orange, France
- Next Gen 100Gb/s Technologies for 6G Mobile Networks, Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo Electric, USA
- Optics for Cloud RAN, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
- Implementation considerations for tight sync; caveats and solution paths, Francois Fredricx, Nokia, Belgium
- High symbol rate transmissions with SiP modulators, Armands Ostrovskis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- SiP coherent modulators for energy-efficient metro/access networks, David Plant, McGill University, Canada
MOPA Session “Mobile Optics (MOPA) for the 6G Era”, at OFC, March 26, 2024, San Diego USA:
- Mobile Optics (MOPA) for 6G: Operator Requirements for 6GOperator advisory board, Philippe Chanclou, Orange, France
- Advances in Coherent Lite for Mobile Networks, Gert Sarlet, Coherent, United States and Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, Italy
- New fronthaul features towards 6G, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy and François Fredricx, Nokia, Belgium
MOPA Scientific program, f2f meeting at OFC, March 25, 2024, San Diego USA:
MOPA Session “MOPA Optics for Wireless”, Special Session Su.B.2 at ECOC, Oct 1, 2023, Glasgow, UK:
- Optical xHaul for beyond 5G and 6G, Jun-ichi Kani, NTT, Japan
- BT’s case for using pluggables in 5G RAN, Albert Rafel, BT, UK
- Optics Performance Impact on Operator Deployments & Open RAN, Mark Watts, Verizon, USA
- Optical Pluggables for Mobile Fronthaul in SKT – For 5G and Beyond, Hongseok Shin, SKT, Korea
- Higher speed optics for RAN: what, where and when?, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
- MOPA Blueprints and Alignment with Industry Standards—UPDATE, Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo Electric, USA
- Transporting Mobile Traffic, a Demanding Use Case for Optics, Francois Fredricx, Nokia, Belgium
- Small Form Factor Digital Coherent Optics for Mobile Network Applications, Gert Sarlet, Coherent, USA
MOPA Session “Mobile Optics (MOPA) for the 6G Era”, at OFC, March 9, 2023, San Diego USA:
- MOPA – Operator advisory board, Philippe Chanclou, Orange, France
- Aligning MOPA Blueprints with Industry Standards, Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo, USA
- Leveraging PON for MOPA, Ronald Heron, Nokia, Canada
- Remote Performance Monitoring and Control in 5G/6G Networks, Ernest Muhigana, Lumentum, USA
- Optical pluggable performance for tight synchronization, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
MOPA Session WS09 at ECOC’2022, September 18, 2022, Basel, Switzerland:
- Optical access network for RAN: current state and possible evolution paths, Junichi Kani, NTT Corporation, Japan
- Unlocking Open RAN Opportunities with Optical Networks, Philippe Chanclou, Orange, France
- RAN as one service in a metro optical network, Andrew Lord, BT, UK
- Multi-Operator Network Sharing over Open Optical Networks, Edward James Echeverry Zuleta, Telefonica, Spain
- Capacity expansion in fronthaul networks: opportunities and challenges, Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
- Extending Coherent Technology to the Radio Unit with P2MP Intelligent Coherent Pluggables, Antonio Napoli, Infinera, Germany
- Open optical edge connecting mobile access networks, Jim Zou, ADVA, Germany
- Aligning MOPA Blueprints with Industry Standards, Kenneth Jackson, Sumitomo, USA
- Tunable optics for front-haul networks, David Lewis, Lumentum, USA
- Short Reach Communication: is finally time for coherent transceivers?, Luca Potì, CNIT, Italy
- Smart Wavelength Tunable Transceivers for RAN Applications, Ken Cockerham, Coherent, USA
Archives
September 29, 2025 : MOPA Technical Paper v3.3
April 1, 2025 : MOPA Technical Paper v3.2
September 22, 2024 : MOPA Technical Paper v3.1
March 25, 2024 : MOPA Technical Paper v3.0
October 1, 2023 : MOPA Technical Paper v2.2
September 18, 2022 : MOPA Technical Paper v2.0
March 9, 2023 : MOPA Technical Paper v2.1