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Directly Modulated Lasers on Silicon (DIMENSION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

...lectro-optical platform, extending the silicon (Bi)CMOS and silicon photonics platform with III-V photonic functionality. The III-V integration concept is fully CMOS compatible and offers fundamental advantages compared to state-of-the art integration approaches. After bonding and growing ultra-thin III-V structures onto the silicon front-end-of-line, the active optical functions are embedded into ...
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Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul/Fronthaul with Cognitive Control Plane for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs (5G-XHaul)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...y, low latency, point-to-multipoint mm-Wave transceivers, cooperating with sub-6-GHz systems;2) A Time Shared Optical Network offering elastic and fine granular bandwidth allocation, cooperating with advanced passive optical networks;3) A software-defined cognitive control plane, able to forecast traffic demand in time and space, and the ability to reconfigure network components.The well balanced ...
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Application Centric IP/Optical Network Orchestration (ACINO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...rchestrator will also be able to perform re-optimization, by means of a novel online in-operation planning module. The ACINO consortium has strong industrial foundations, and plans to demonstrate the advantages of its approach in a testbed with commercial equipment in a carrier environment.ACINO’s approach directly addresses the lack of dynamic control of optical networks, by automating planning a ...
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intelligent Converged network consolIdating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment. (iCIRRUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

To meet the high throughput demands envisaged for 5G networks, with increased user densification and bandwidth-hungry applications, while at the same time reducing energy consumption, iCIRRUS proposes an intelligent Cloud-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) that brings together optical fibre technology, low-cost but highly flexible Ethernet networking, wireless resource management for device-to-device (D ...
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Advanced Integration of SDN and SDO for Future-Proof Networks (ABACUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"In the area of optical communications and networks, major research and development efforts are focused towards extending the flexibility and efficiency of optical networks; the main driver is to better adapt to new emerging bandwidth demanding services while catering the needs of end-users, while reducing the overall cost and complexity of the network.The goal of this project is to provide interd ...
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COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks (COMBO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Fixed and mobile networks have been subjects to significant technological and architectural evolutions in the past years, with e.g. deployments of 4G mobile networks and FTTH fixed networks, as well as significant increase in traffic demand and access bandwidth both in fixed and mobile access networks. All these network evolutions lead to enormous investments in independent network infrastructures ...
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Cost and Energy Efficient Optical Access and Local Area Networks (CEEOALAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...detection. The proposal looks into carrierless amplitude and phase (CAP) modulation, partial response signaling, and optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Optical OFDM leveraging advanced digital signal processing has shown great resilience to linear system effects such as fiber dispersion. CAP and partial response are emerging formats that potentially have lower cost and lowe ...
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Scalable and efficienT oRchestrAtion of Ethernet services Using Software-defined and flexible optical networkS-EU (STRAUSS-EU)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

...Ethernet transport, covering heterogeneous transport and network control plane technologies, enabling an Ethernet ecosystem. It will design, implement and evaluate, via large-scale demonstrations, an advanced optical Ethernet transport architecture. The proposed architecture leverages on software defined networking principles, on optical network virtualization as well as on flexible optical circui ...
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Colourless and Coolerless Components for low Power Optical Networks (C-3PO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

Description As the capacity demands for telecommunications continue to grow exponentially, the energy consumption of the network increases super-linearly with capacity. As a result, energy limits will constrain future growth, and this is predicted to be a significant brake on development of the global knowledge economy. The C-3PO project wil ...
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Open Flow in Europe: Linking Infrastructure and Applications (OFELIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The aim of the OFELIA project is to create a unique experimental facility that allows researchers to not only experiment 'on' a test network but to control the network itself precisely and dynamically. To achieve this, the OFELIA facility is based on OpenFlow, a currently emerging networking technology that allows to virtualize and control the network environment through secure and standardized in ...
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Towards Automated Interactions between the Internet and the Carrier-Grade Management Ecosystems (ONE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

There is a wide consensus among telecom vendors and operators that the next decade will see a mélange of evolving Internet architectures embedded into high-bandwidth technologies and carrier-grade systems for control and management. The combined Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet-based optical transport solutions are expected to drastically lower capital and operational expenses and improve overa ...
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Optical Access Seamless Evolution (OASE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Consumer bandwidth is showing no signs of slowing down and operators are now forced to explore access network migration strategies that will satisfy the anticipated bandwidth demands for the next decade. However, evolving today's access networks towards NG-OA architectures will require a multi-billion euro investment. Consequently, an important strategic aspect is the need for a thorough techno-ec ...
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Generalised architEcture for dYnamic infraStructure sERvices (GEYSERS)

End date: Jan 1, 2010,

GEYSERS vision is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional business operations. Optical network infrastructure providers will compose logical infrastructures and rent them out to network operators; network operators will run cost-efficient, dynamic and mission-specific networks by means of integrated control and managem ...
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