Project Data

title:	Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network
duration:	2008/01 - 2010/12
leader:	Tibor Cinkler (HSNLab part)
budget:	4.793.855 € (EC contribution 3.752.801 €)
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BONE summary

The BONE-proposal builds on the foundations laid out by the e-Photon/ONe projects in the previous Framework Programme. This Network of Excellence has successfully brought together over several years the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Networks. The BONE-project intends to validate this effort by stimulating a more intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers and building on Virtual Centres of Excellence that can serve to European industry with education & training, research tools & testlabs and pave the way to new technologies & architectures.

The Network of the Future, which is the central theme of this Call, will have to cope with a wide variety of applications running on a wide variety of terminals and with an increasing number of connected devices and increasing speed and data-loads. Within this context, issues as convergence between mobile and fixed networks, or issues regarding the optimised broadband access in the last mile using a wide variety of technologies such as DSL, cable, WiMAX, WiFi, PLC,… are currently under investigation to adapt the current network to these increasing requirements for better performance.

The BONE-proposal looks further into the future and builds the final “Network of the Future”:

• a high capacity, flexible, reconfigurable and self-healing optical Core & Metro network which supports the transport of massive amounts of data;
• a FTTx solution in which the “x” is as close as possible to the home, at the home, or even in the home. From this point the user is connected using terminal-specific technologies (wireless to handheld devices, fiber to home cinema, wireless to laptop, fixed connection to desktop,…);
• BONE clearly identifies the existence of the current technologies and also recognizes the fact that users also require the mobility of wireless access, but this mobile connection ends at a gateway or access points and from there a fixed connection is required and this fixed connection will finally be an optical link.

 

BONE consortium

• Interdisciplinair Instituut voor BreedBand Technologie vzw, B
• Vienna University of Technology, A
• Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, B
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, D
• Technische Universität Berlin, D
• Universität Duisburg-Essen, D
• University of Stuttgart, D
• COM-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, DK
• Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, E
• Telefonica I+D, E
• Escuela Politécnica Superior - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E
• Escuela Politécnica Superior -Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, E
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, E
• Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, E
• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, E
• Universidad de Vigo, E
• France Telecom R&D, F
• GET / E.N.S.T., F
• Research and Education Laboratory in Information Technology, GR
• Inst. of Comm. and Computer Systems/National Techn. Univ. of Athens, GR
• Research Academic Computer Technology Institute – University of Patras, GR
• University of Athens, GR
• University of Peloponnese,GR
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H
• Univ. of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, HR
• Coritel, I
• Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, I
• Superior Institue of Communication and Information Technologies, I
• Politecnico di Milano, I
• Politecnico di Torino, I
• Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, I
• DEIS University of Bologna, I
• University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, I
• Sapienza-Università di Roma, I
• Telenor, N
• Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, NL
• Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, P
• AGH University of Science and Technology, PL
• HUAWEI Technologies Deutschland GmbH, D
• Poznan University of Technology, PL
• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, S
• Bilkent Universitesi, TR
• Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, I
• Optoelectronics Research Centre - University of Southampton, UK
• University of Cambridge, UK
• University College London, UK
• University of Essex, UK
• University of Wales Swansea, UK
• Ericsson Limited, UK

 

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