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Panel: From Best Practice to Critical Infrastructure: Rethinking Fibre Resilience#

Capacity Europe 2026 digest Program Core pick 12–15 October 2026

Abstract

Felix Seda (NJFX), Gilles Calligaro (Arteria), Tom Ronan (Senior Director, Fiber Systems, VIAVI), Salman Alomiri (Mobily), Dave Ferry (ITS)

  • Why: Network resilience engineering with an actual measurement/monitoring angle — VIAVI's Tom Ronan is the one panellist across the program likely to discuss fibre monitoring, OTDR-based visibility, and fault localisation rather than pure commercial resilience.
  • What: How operators strengthen reliability, improve visibility across their networks, and minimise disruption as resilience becomes a competitive differentiator for business customers (from abstract only).
  • How: Panel discussion spanning monitoring/visibility tooling, restoration practice, and commercial framing of resilience.
  • Where applicable: Carrier fibre networks broadly; NJFX's cable-landing-exchange model is US-specific but the monitoring and visibility discussion is general. No metrics published; the abstract is thin, so value depends heavily on the VIAVI contribution.