Metro-Haul Holds Successful Plenary Session Addressing Implications of 5G Use Cases in Metro Optical Networks
09 Mai 2018 - 3:45PM
Business Wire
Third Plenary Meeting of EU-Funded Project,
Hosted in Lisbon by Coriant, Advances Technology Research and
Collaboration in the Area of 5G-Optimized Metro Networks
The Metro-Haul Project, a Horizon 2020 European Union research
and innovation program, today announced the successful completion
of its third plenary meeting. More than 50 people from across 21
companies and universities spanning 8 European countries have just
attended the highly productive project plenary meeting hosted by
Coriant in April at its R&D facilities in Lisbon, Portugal.
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The meeting highlighted the practical points of convergence for
access and metro networks, and the establishment of suitable
architecture and fundamental structure of future metro networks.
Discussions also included the critical role of storage, compute,
and virtual function capabilities; underpinned with flexible and
elastic optical nodes in support of the demands of the 5G network.
These plenaries provide opportunities for heated and productive
discussions: a notable outcome for the most recent session led to
significant advances in understanding of how transponders from
different vendors can be configured and operated using common data
models.
“The Metro-Haul project targets are ambitious but realistic for
the demands of 5G,” said Emilio Riccardi from TIM, the Italian
telecommunications company. “We aim to enable optical metro
networks with 100 times the capacity, 10 times less energy
consumption, support for latency-sensitive services, and end-to-end
SDN-based management that enables fast configuration leading to a
20% reduction in OPEX. The cooperation between equipment
manufacturers and network operators within Metro-Haul offers the
possibility of achieving these targets and making a huge difference
to the industry.”
Metro-Haul is already significantly exceeding its stated KPIs
with over 90 separate research papers, journal articles, and
conference presentations published or accepted for publication
within the ten months since the start of the project. The recent
OFC conference held in San Diego in March 2018 was a notable
success, achieving no fewer than 23 Metro-Haul contributions
including papers, invited talks, workshops, and tutorials.
“With active support from industry leaders and European academic
institutions, Metro-Haul is making important contributions to the
understanding of the demands that emerging 5G use cases will place
on metro network infrastructure,” said Carlos Ferreira, Country
Manager for Coriant Portugal. “We were pleased to host the third
plenary session and help facilitate driving this important work
forward. The implications of bandwidth growth on metro networks
represent a pressing issue for our customers, and the research
Metro-Haul provides is an invaluable source of architecture,
technology, and use case information that will help maximize the
value of 5G-optimized networks.”
Chigo Okonkwo and Nicola Calabretta are Assistant Professors in
the ECO Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology working on
Metro-Haul. “The Metro-Haul project is strengthened by
contributions from some of the top universities in Europe,” said
Chigo. “It is crucial for projects like this to engage with
academic researchers who are able to supplement and enhance the
output of industrial and commercial R&D.” “TU Eindhoven
welcomes the opportunity to engage in a prestigious 5G project like
Metro-Haul,” added Nicola, “especially in view of the impact it is
having across the industry.”
About Metro-HaulLaunched in mid-2017, the Metro-Haul
Project receives funding (G.A. 761727) from the Horizon 2020 EU
research and innovation program. The aim of the €7.7 million
project is to design and build a smart optical metro infrastructure
able to support traffic originating from heterogeneous 5G access
networks, addressing the anticipated capacity increase and its
specific characteristics, including mobility, low latency, and low
jitter. This infrastructure will also support a wide variety of
services and use cases with special emphasis on services from
various industries vertical to the ICT.
- Website: https://metro-haul.eu
- Twitter: @MetroHaul
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- ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Metro-Haul
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On behalf of the Metro-Haul ProjectAdrian
Farrelcontact@metro-haul.euorOn behalf of CoriantJennifer Handshew,
+1.917.359.8838jhandshew@percepture.com