CommTech Talks
Elastic Optical Devices pave the way for Software Defined Optical Networks
Annalisa Morea, Claudio Colombo
Nokia
DEIB - Conference Room
January 20th, 2016
4.45 pm
Annalisa Morea, Claudio Colombo
Nokia
DEIB - Conference Room
January 20th, 2016
4.45 pm
Sommario
On January 20th, 2016 at 4.45 pm, CommTech Talks will take place at DEIB Conference Room with the last appointment of the first semester.
This talk will deal with the novel elastic optical devices with optical and software networks.
The staff is preparing the schedule for the next six months; if you have ideas and suggestions, please write them.
In the last few years, novel multimedia services and the mobility of sources caused an exponential growth in traffic. Optical networks are constantly changing to efficiently deal with traffic demands. To provide a competitive solution offering the requested features, an innovative network concept has been introduced: elastic optical networks. These networks are based on tunable optical interfaces and flexible switches. The benefits of the elasticity range from the overall network cost reduction, both in expenditure and operational, to the improvement of network scalability. Cost-efficiency is not only associated to the introduction of the elastic devices but also to the enhanced routing and traffic grooming algorithms, while the network scalability is guaranteed by remote controller. Presently, Software Defined Networks (SDN) has been identified as the more suitable approach for controlling and tuning physical layer interfaces to follow the upper layer traffic evolutions.
In this talk we aim at identifying the key building blocks for enabling the evolution from static to elastic optical networks and how their features allow an efficient adaptation to traffic evolutions through Software Defined Networks.
Registration:
http://tinyurl.com/commtechpolimi
CommTech Talks @ POLIMI are a series of seminars and panels organized weekly by the study program in Telecommunications Engineering and the master of science track in Internet Engineering of Politecnico di Milano for stimulating the networking between students and people from industry and research.
This talk will deal with the novel elastic optical devices with optical and software networks.
The staff is preparing the schedule for the next six months; if you have ideas and suggestions, please write them.
In the last few years, novel multimedia services and the mobility of sources caused an exponential growth in traffic. Optical networks are constantly changing to efficiently deal with traffic demands. To provide a competitive solution offering the requested features, an innovative network concept has been introduced: elastic optical networks. These networks are based on tunable optical interfaces and flexible switches. The benefits of the elasticity range from the overall network cost reduction, both in expenditure and operational, to the improvement of network scalability. Cost-efficiency is not only associated to the introduction of the elastic devices but also to the enhanced routing and traffic grooming algorithms, while the network scalability is guaranteed by remote controller. Presently, Software Defined Networks (SDN) has been identified as the more suitable approach for controlling and tuning physical layer interfaces to follow the upper layer traffic evolutions.
In this talk we aim at identifying the key building blocks for enabling the evolution from static to elastic optical networks and how their features allow an efficient adaptation to traffic evolutions through Software Defined Networks.
Registration:
http://tinyurl.com/commtechpolimi
CommTech Talks @ POLIMI are a series of seminars and panels organized weekly by the study program in Telecommunications Engineering and the master of science track in Internet Engineering of Politecnico di Milano for stimulating the networking between students and people from industry and research.
