The summary of the 43rd European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) was introduced,and plenary presentations,workshops,tutorials,invited papers,post-deadline papers,as well as exhibition were discussed.The conference includes eight technical scopes:fibers,fiber devices and fiber amplifiers,integrated optoelectronic devices and optical processors,digital techniques for optical communication systems,transmission subsystems and optical network elements,datacom and computercom hardware,point-to-point transmission links,core,metro,and data center networks,access,local area and indoor networks.