ECOC2010 - Optical Networking for Future Broadband Internet Services

Within ECOC 2010, EPIC has co-organized a symposium on "Optical Networking for Future Broadband Internet Services" to be held on Wednesday, September 22, from 9:00 to 13:00, at the Lingotto Congress Centrer, Torino, Italy


The revolutionary feature of the Internet is its promise to enable access to a vast array of information resources, unlimited by our location or time of day. In addition, the Internet implements networking among people in many different locations around the world. The future Internet will be the platform for the evolution of existing capabilities and for the new, yet unidentified, broadband and "mission critical" services.

To bring this future forward, an infrastructure able to guarantee a pre-specified end-to-end performance over all distance scales is mandatory. The objective of this symposium is to grasp the essential aspects and demonstrate the vital role of optical networking as the essential infrastructure for the Internet. To share this vision, the implemented optical networking solutions should optimise network performance across a number of parameters that are used as "figures of merit". These include traditional Quality of Service (QoS) parameters (capacity/throughput, end-to-end delay and jitter, end-to-end packet loss) as well as parameters like resource utilization, availability, physical layer performance (BER), power consumption etc.

Without such a vision for an end-to-end infrastructure, the Internet will inevitably become a locally-restricted service. As an example, universal access to broadband services in Europe cannot be supported by today's core network, with architectures that are in fact local, and poorly-designed to handle and distribute digital video and other broadband services. Under these conditions in the core network, the widespread installation of fibre-to-the-home might cause the Internet to grind to a halt.

The symposium will elaborate and discuss future network requirements, as these are dictated from existing and emerging applications and services, and will cover the effect of universal broadband access on the core network. Following, presentations will address holistic architectural solutions for a new end-to-end European network optimised using QoS criteria. Finally, there will be a presentation and discussion concerning European Commission and Celtic R&D programmes and priorities that should address this critical issue.

Chairs of the Symposium are:
Tom Pearsall, European Photonics Industry Consortium, France, pearsall@epic-assoc.com Alexandros Stavdas, University of Peloponnese, Greece, astavdas@uop.gr

PROGRAM

Introduction

An Essential Infrastructure for the Future Internet
Alexandros Stavdas, University of Pelopponese, Greece
The sustainability of internet critically depends upon an infrastructure capable to ensure the requested performance. However, the existing solutions largely fail to provide such performance guarantees. The presentation will review the pitfalls of the available platforms and it present architectural strategies allowing for an optimised performance against QoS parameters; emphasis will be given to grooming and switching.

Quantification of the Challenges

Role of Optics and Electronics in Creating Future Broadband Networks
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
To create future bandwidth abundant and cost-effective networks, we need to not only optimize photonic technologies but also strengthen their coordination with electrical technologies. The presentation first identifies the requirements of future networks and elucidates the best combination of electrical and optical technologies that will cost-effectively satisfy the requirements. The importance of coarse granular optical routing will also be highlighted.

GEYSERS: a Generalized Architecture for Services over Dynamic Infrastructures
Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT, Spain
GEYSERS architecture empowers optical network toward future internet services under energy efficiency premises. It provides customized virtual infrastructures with enhanced NCP instances that support dynamic Optical Network + IT (storage and computing) provisioning services with applications' dynamic requirements awareness.

Network Evolution and the Impact in Core Networks
Esther Le Rouzic, Orange Labs, France
The talk will present the projected evolution of networks and their impact on core networks. From FFTH deployment to the Internet of Things or Content Delivery Networks, current trends tell us that future networks will be different from today. How this will impact optical core networks and what the role of optics will be in these networks are questions that we will try to answer.

Architectural considerations

Evolutionary Approach Towards Ultra-High Capacity and QoS Aware Transport Networks
Juan Palacios, Telefonica, Spain
One of the main concerns in the industry of the telecommunications is the development of a new network architecture to be deployed in the next years since current architectures would need high investments to scale in order to be able to support the Internet traffic growth. This paper describes the FP7 STRONGEST architectural vision for future metro and core networks as well as the migration steps and technical challenges towards the STRONGEST's final architecture

Optical Technologies, the Enabler of the Efficient Internet?
Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom, Germany

On the Influence of High Split, Long Reach, High Data Rate Access Technologies on the Core Network Services
Curt Badstieber, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Replacing TDM based PONs by x-WDM based PONs which establish virtual point to point connections implies changes on the available services, core network architectures and Quality of Service. Aggregation variants and their implications on the network are discussed

New Generation Access and Metro Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Dominique Chiaroni Alcatel-Lucent, France
The deployment of fiber-to-the-home systems motivated by the emergence of video applications creates new needs for optimized networks. We present here an optical access & metro packet network, studied in the ALPHA project targeting power consumption and cost reductions perspectives.

Conclusions
Andy Houghton, European Commission, Belgium
Tom Pearsall, General Secretary, European Photonics Industry Consortium, France

Information ECOC 2010
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