Sitting down with the Innovative Optical and Wireless Global Forum (IOWN-GF) at MWC was a refreshing break from the cynicism that accompanied many briefings. Here was a truly future-looking application, with immense opportunity, not yet burdened by the realities of operator bloat and bureaucracy. Wireless Watch covered an announcement between Nokia and NTT, back in January, where the pair unveiled some very promising lab results – a 125x increase in transmission capacity, a 200x reduction in latency, and a 100x reduction in power consumption. The main driver behind this is the shift from copper-based to optical networking gear, and eventually harnessing optical computing – moving photons inside a chip, instead of electrons. At MWC, IOWN was housed inside the Fujitsu…