ICTON - "Mediterranean Winter" is a satellite event to the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) intended to provide an international forum of discussion and promotion of research advances in transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunication networks, systems, and components in Mediterranean region. The scope of ICTON-MW contains all the topics of interest of ICTON and associated events as listed at www.itl.waw.pl/konferencje/icton. ICTON-MW is receiving technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.