Optical communications networks are becoming increasingly important as the demand for high capacity links is intensifying. Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is widely deployed at the core networks to accommodate high capacity transport systems. Optical components, such as optical amplifiers, tunable filters, transceivers, termination devices and add-drop multiplexers, are becoming more affordable and reliable. Access and metropolitan area networks are increasingly built with optical technologies to overcome the electronic bottleneck at network edges. New components and subsystems for very high speed optical networks offer new design options. This CD-Rom constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd IFIP-TC6 International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks.