On November 2-6, 2011, the International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011 has been held in Wuhan science and technology exhibition center, Wuhan, China. Prof. Jiang invited Prof. Richard Penty, Dr. Changyuan Yu, Prof. Lianshan Yan, Prof. Chester Shu, Prof. Xiaoping Zheng, Prof. Gangxiang Shen, Prof. Ping Kong Alexander Wai, Prof. Chunming Qiao, Dr. Sugang Xu, Prof. Yikai Su, Dr. Qi Yang and Dr. Xu Wang to give wonderful presentations on the session of Optical Communication Systems and Networking (OSCN).