Objective
This Network of Excellence (NoE) 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. It builds upon the experience gained within the previous NoE e-Photon/ONe, funded within the 1st IST call of FP6.
The set of expertises available in the NoE ranges from optical technologies to networking devices, network architectures and protocols, new services fostered by photonic technologies. The NoE contributes to the Strategic Objective "Broadband for All", with specific focus (quoting from the EC IST 2005-2006 Workprogramme) on "new concepts for network management, control and protocols", and on "increased bandwidth capacity, in the access network as well in the underlying optical core/metro network (including in particular optical burst and packet switching)".
The main technical aim of the e-Photon/ONe+ is to demonstrate and spread awareness of the advantages of optical over electronic technologies in both telecom networks and customer-controlled grids. The participants to the NoE will jointly work towards a consensus on the engineering choices for the deployment of cost-effective optical technologies as the foundation for the future Internet, with the intention to provide valuable inputs to standardization bodies and guidelines to operators, as well as competitive feedback to European telecom equipment manufacturers.
Integration will be pursued primarily by establishing long-term collaborations among partners in terms of research, of infrastructures sharing, and of education and training. The NoE will provide the platform within which the main instruments to achieve these long-lasting collaborations, such as the exchange of researchers between partners, the involvement in coordinated research activities, and the development of joint teaching programs and events, will be effectively deployed.
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10129 Torino
Italy
Participants (39)
20124 Milano
40126 Bologna
30-059 Krakow
06800 Bilkent, Ankara
1521 PF 91 Budapest
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
19002 Peania Attica
7000 Mons
00142 Roma
75015 Paris
79108 München
UB4 8FE Hayes, Middlesex
75634 Paris 13
10682 Athina
Lisboa
9050 Gent
100 44 Stockholm
7000 Mons
Athina
22100 Tripoli
Milano
26500 Rio Patras
10000 Zagreb
10623 Berlin
1040 Wien
5600 MB Eindhoven
28043 Madrid
1331 Fornebu
Madrid
Getafe (Madrid)
45141 Essen
Colchester
SO17 1BJ Southampton