Project Data e-Photon ONe+ consortium e-Photon ONe+ goals

Project Data

title:	Optical Networks: Towards Bandwidth Manageability and Cost Efficiency
duration:	2004/02 - 2006/02 (Phase 1) 2006/03 - 2008/02 (Phase 2)
leader:	Géza Paksy, Tibor Cinkler
budget:	2.900.000 € (Phase 1) 2.300.000 € (Phase 2)
homepage:	http://www.e-photon-one.org/

 

e-Photon ONe+ consortium

The list of the 40 institutions from 17 different countries involved in e-Photon/ONe+ can be found on the project web site here.

e-Photon ONe+ goals

The Network of Excellence e-Photon/ONe+ aims at integrating and focusing the rich know-how available in Europe on optical communication and networks, both in universities and in research centres of major telecom manufacturers and operators.

The basic goal of e-Photon/ONe+ is to foster the introduction of optical technologies in telecommunication networks beyond point-to-point transmission, and to show the advantages offered by optical technologies to telecommunication networks with respect to electronic technologies in both telecom networks and customer-controlled grids.

Its major objectives are:

• to integrate and focus the rich know-how available in Europe on optical networking, from optical technologies, to networking devices, to network architectures and protocols, to new services fostered by photonic technologies;
• to favour a co-ordination among the participants to reach a consensus on the engineering choices towards the deployment of optical networks, providing inputs to the standardization bodies and guidelines to the operators;
• to provide guidelines for the design of an optical Internet backbone, metro, access and in-home infrastructure, supporting traffic engineering and quality of service management in an end-to-end perspective;
• to understand how the intrinsic characteristic of optical networks can be used * to provide acceptable levels of quality of service and protection/restoration inside and across network domains;
• to promote and organize integration activities aiming at establishing a good exchange of information among participating institutions and long-lasting

collaboration among partners;

• to promote and organize activities to disseminate knowledge on optical networks.

 

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