ECOC Report for the CaON cluster

Dimitra Simeonidou: dsimeo@essex.ac.uk

ECOC Participation

ECOC Plenary

Prof. Ton Koonen & Prof. Peter Van DaeleECOC 2012 General Chairs

Reaching Farther Faster By Accelerating 100G & Illuminating 400G, Dr. Philippe Keryer, President Networks Group, Alcatel-Lucent Enabling a borderless lifestyle, Mr. Ruchir Rodrigues, Corporate Vice President – Product Strategy and Development, VerizonQuantum Dot Photonics: Past, Present And Future, Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa, Director of Nanoelectronics Research Center, University of TokyoFrom 40 to 100G in 63113852000 milliseconds- Gigabit Bandwidth Evolution in SURFnet, Prof. Erik Huizer, Director Technology, SURFnet

Sunday Workshops

Next Generation Optical and converged Access networks: Opportunities, challenges and implications – Christoph Lange, Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany), Dirk Breuer, Deutsche

Telekom AG (Germany), Erik Weis, Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany)

Flexible cognitive optical networks – Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark

(Denmark), Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (Greece)

FTTH and open access networks: Technology, business and regulatory challenges – Marco Forzati, Swedish ICT / Acreo, Sweden, Crister Mattsson, Swedish ICT /

Acreo, Sweden, Bart Lannoo, IBBT - Ghent University, Belgium, Sofie Verbrugge, IBBT - Ghent University, Belgium, Bas Huiszoon, Genexis, The Netherlands

Control Plane architectures for new optical switching technologies enabling flexibility in time, frequency and space domains – Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, Telefonica I+D, Spain

Observations

 

Two special symposia were organized : – "Indoor optical networks - a promising way to converged service delivery“

– "Energy Consumption of the Internet"

Hot topics:

Flexible and elastic  networks– “Design of Flexible & Elastic Networks”

– “Control Plane Solutions for Flexible and Elastic Optical Networks”

– “Data Plane Solutions for Flexible and Elastic Optical Networks

Open Flow and Virtualization for optical networks.

Multicore fibres, passive and active few mode fibres and structured fibres.

Postdeadlines

The postdeadline sessions were also dominated by flexible, elastic technologies and new fibres or combinations of these for transmission and network applications. 

A PD report on “Angular Orbital Momentum” gave us a glimpse of things to expect in future ECOCs!

“First Demonstration of an OpenFlow based Software-Defined Optical Network Employing Packet, Fixed and Flexible DWDM Grid Technologies on an International Multi-Domain Testbed”, Bristol, CTTC, KDDI, ADVA

“First Fully-Elastic Multi-granular Network with Space/Frequency/Time Switching Using Multi-core Fibres and Programmable Optical Nodes”, Bristol, NICT

“First Demonstration of Ultra-low Latency Intra/Inter Data-Centre Heterogeneous Optical Sub-lambda Network using extended GMPLS-PCE Control Plane”, Bristol, Nextworks, Intune, Primetel, UaM, TID

Next Year

22 - 26 September 2013ICC London ExCeL, UK