Fernando Agraz Bujan, “Advanced Routing Mechanisms in ASON/GMPLS Networks”. Defense date: 01/10/2012. Thesis co-director: Dr. Jordi Perelló Muntan.
Month: November 2012
LIGHTNESS
LIGHTNESS – Low latency and high throughput dynamic network infrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects
(FP7-318606)
November 2012 – October 2015
Role: Technical Coordinator for UPC
The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a high-performance network infrastructure for data centres, where innovative photonic switching and transmission solutions are deployed. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will be driven by the increasing popularity of computing and storage server-side applications in the society. Indeed, the deployment of optical transmission systems leveraging Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows the transmission of more than a hundred of wavelength channels operating at 10, 40, 100 Gb/s and beyond. This effectively results in “unlimited” bandwidth capacities of multiple Terabit/s per fibre link, which can be efficiently utilized through next-generation all-optical switching paradigms like Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) or Optical Packet Switching (OPS).