Optical Research in IST
Photonics Technologies in the EU
Information Society Technologies (IST)
Workprogramme
Andrew Houghton
European Commission, DG Information Society
andrew.houghton@cec.eu.int
Photonics 2000, Manchester
July 4-5, 2000
IST Programme
EU RTD Programmes
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strengthen the international competitiveness of
Community industry
provide appropriate incentives for maintaining and
creating jobs in the Community
promote sustainable development and improve the
quality of life in the Community
the needs of other Community policies in support of
which the RTD actions are carried out
scientific and technical cooperation agreements between
the Community and third countries
(CD 22.12.98, OJ L26/48)
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History of the IST Programme
Basic
Technologies
Services
3rd
4th
2nd
TAP
TAP
TAP
ESPRIT
ESPRIT3
ESPRIT4
RACE 1
RACE 2
ACTS
1987
IST Programme
1991
5th Framework
Programme
1995
Information
Society
Technologies
1999
Challenges for the Photonic
Network
To enable an
efficient and affordable
communications infrastructure!
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THE NEW PARADIGM FOR
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
TELECOMS: SWITCHING and TRANSMISSION
INTERNET: ROUTERS and PIPES
USE OPTICS for PIPES: +also for ROUTERS???
PIPES: Bit-rates and BER
NETWORK: QoS and GRANULARITY
TERMINALS: Mobile!!
CLIENT LAYERS and/or APPLICATION LAYERS
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Progress in Photonics
Technologies
Transmission Rate Gbit/s
10000
1000
From Research to
Commercial availability:
~4 years
100
DWDM boosts
Performance
~12x
10
4 Years Lead-time
12 fold Performance
Increase
1
0.1
Research
Commercial
0.01
1980
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1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Pan-European
Fibreoptic Network Operators
April 1998: 3 Pan-European network operators
April 2000: 25 Pan-European network operators
GTS (Hermes/Esprit), Viatel/CIRCE, MCI Worldcom
Concert (BT/AT&T), i-21, Level (3), EBN + Global 1 (FT)
COLT, Carrier1, KPN Qwest + + …
Most of these networks overlap, and cover AmsterdamLondon- Paris-Frankfurt, but ignore regions of central Europe,
southern Italy, southern Spain...
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OD1
ATM, Frame Relay
Optical Services
IP
Circuit Services
Network User Traffic
Virtual Circuit
Services
Packet
Services
Network
Model
SDH
Optical Transport Layer - DWDM
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Optical Component Market 1975-2025
($ billions)
$900
$800
$700
Other Components
Optical Switches
Filters
Optical Amplifiers
Couplers/Splitters
Receivers
Transmitters
Connectors
$600
$500
$400
$300
$200
$100
$0
1975
Fiber-Optic Cable
1985
1995
2005
2015
2025
We are early in the cycle of growth.
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Roadmap for Photonics Technologies
State o f the art
Comme rcia l
Line Bit Ra te
1995
2.5 Gb
Tota l Fibre Capacity 20-4 0 G b
# WDM Channels
Cha nnel S pac ing
Opt. Trans parent
8
200 GHz
120 km
Network
Arc hitecture
pt-p t
WDM
Subsystem s
OA
100 Gb
2005
2.5 Gb
10 Gb
400 Gb
(2.5 Gb)
10 Gb
64
16-3 2
100 GHz 50 GHz
3-50 00 km
600 km
flexible OADM/
fixe d
OA DM/rings (interconne cted) rings
fixe d
OA DM
3R O/E /O
Transponde rs
Com ponents
2000
40 Gbit/s ICs
selecta ble/ tun eable lasers
DFB la ser
low cost op tical tra nsceivers
User Acce ss
Bit Rate
Services
PO TS
64 Kb
PO TS
ISDN
128 Kb, 2 Mb
Inte rnet,
Vid eophon y,
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HORIZON Project - ACTS
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cable m odem
ADSL
2-8 Mb
Teleworking, L an-Lan,
fast Interne t, video ,
games,tele learning ...
10 Gb
40 Gb
>1 Tb
128
25 GHz
100 00+ km
500 0+ km
sma ll meshed, flexible
WDM networks
meshed, flexible
WDM networks
larg e, fu ll flexible
(integra ted) OX C
flexible OADM
sma ll O XC
AO WC
2010
integrated
optical switche s
Opt. 3R
lower cost opt transc.
Optical : 155 Mb
(A|V )DSL at
2, 1 0, 50 Mb
Ver y fa st Internet,
Inte ractive
entertainment
Optical sig nal
processing
- OTDM
- clo ck extracti on
- sh ort pulse
gen eration
Optical: 62 2 Mb
Electrical: up to
100 Mb
Virtual presence fo r
working, le arning and
entertainment
May 1998
THE PARADOX FOR OPTICAL NETWORK R+D
“THE PROBLEM AREAS IN OPTICAL NETWORKS ARE
MOSTLY NON-OPTICAL”
ALL NETWORKS USE MORE AND MORE OPTICS BUT
OPTICAL HARDWARE IS A DECREASING PROBLEM
THE PRIORITY RTD FOR FUTURE OPTICAL NETWORKS
MAY BE IN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, PROTOCOLS,
MAC LAYERS, CLIENT ADAPTATION LAYERS….
CAN OPTICAL RTD BE DIRECTED TO SOLVING THESE
PROBLEMS?
(+FOR ACCESS NETWORKS, RTD IN DIGGING
HOLES??? )
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Challenges for Photonic
Core Networks
•Increase Capacity per Fibre
•Efficient Optical Network Nodes
(Cross-connects and Multiplexers)
•Management System
•Protection and Restoration
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Technology evolution
Photonic Networking Evolution
Interconnected rings
and mesh topologies
OXC
OXC
OXC
OXC
OXC
WDM rings with
full connectivity
OADM
OADM
WDM rings with
node addressing
OADM
OADM
OADM
OADM
OADM
OADM
OADM
OADM
WDM transmission with add/drop
OADM
OADM
WDM transmission
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Programme
Year
1999
2003
2006
European Information Infrastructure
Core Network: 2003
WDM Ring Network:
“Domains” linked by switches
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European Information Infrastructure
Core Network: 2007
Meshed WDM Network: Cross-connects,
OADMs and Terabit/s links
Clients: SDH, ATM, IP, NGP?
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Challenges for Photonic
Metropolitan Networks
•Support All Services (Internet, Mobile, Broadcast)
•Flexible Bandwidth Allocation
•Flexible Cross-connects and Multiplexers
•Efficient Interfacing with
Communications Higher Layers (IP)
•Interworking with other Networks
•Management System
•Protection and Restoration
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Challenges for Photonic
Access Networks
LOW COST - AFFORDABLE ACCESS!
Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
•Efficient Combination with
other Technologies (wireless, xDSL...)
•Flexible Bandwidth Allocation
•Cheap and easy-to-use Access Gateways
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User and Service Requirements
64kb/s
Response time
(ms)
1E+04
Source: Heinrich Hertz Institute
100kb/s 1Mb/s
1E+03
10 Mb/s
100Mb/s
1Gb/s
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1E+02
C
A
B
1E+03
1E+04
A. POTS
B. Videoconferencing (low quality)
C. Videoconferencing (high quality)
D. Teleworking
E. Telelearning
F. Information exchange (including
Internet)
and retrieval
G. Entertainment
1E+01
1E+00
1E+02
1E+05
1E+06
1E+07
1E+08
Information content (bits)
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1E+09
Multi-Service Access Network
Optical
Network
Interface
UMTS
base station
Voice
Services
Service
Integration
Point
SIP
Data
Services
Optical Fibre
Copper Pair
Coaxial Cable
Wireless/Radio
Core
Network
CaTV
Head-End
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VOD
Services
OD5
The IST Programme
1999-2002; Total Budget: 3600M EUR
Key Action 1:
Key Action 2:
commerce
Key Action 3:
Key Action 4:
Systems and services for the citizen
New methods of work and e-
Multimedia content and tools
Essential Technologies and
Infrastructures
Future & Emerging Technologies
Research Networking
Cross-Programme Themes
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KEY ACTION 4:
ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND
INFRASTRUCTURES
MICROELECTRONICS
MOBILE AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
AND SYSTEMS AND SATELLITES
INFORMATION PROCESSING,
COMMUNICATIONS AND
NETWORKS
PERIPHERALS
SUB-SYSTEMS
MICRO SYSTEMS
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INTERFACES
REAL-TIME,
LARGE-SCALE
SIMULATION AND
VISUALISATION
TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGINEERING
FOR SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS AND SERVICES
WP2000 Key Action IV.2 (UnitE1)
KA1
KA2
KA3
NETWORK
MANAGEMENT
SERVICES PROVISION
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
REALTIME SYSTEMS
NETWORK INTEGRATION
PROTOCOLS: IP, WAP…
OPTICAL
CORE NETWORK
ACCESS NETWORK
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Research Areas
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CONCEPTS + MATERIALS
COMPONENTS + DEVICES
SYSTEMS + NETWORKS
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The IST Workprogramme 1999
First Call For Proposals; 19 March 1999:
Key Action 4: Essential Technologies and Infrastructures
4.2.3 Network integration, interoperability and interworking
4.2.4 Network management and service-level interworking
4.2.5 All-optical and terabit networks
4.8.4 Advanced optoelectronics and microelectronics
Future & Emerging Technologies: (+FET Open):
P1 Quantum information processing and communications
Second Call For Proposals; September 1999:
Research Networking
7.1.2 RN1 Testbeds for advanced networking and application
experiments
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Snapshot of IST’s first call
Initial focus on RTD activities
 Response
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2,486 proposals ….. …….. for 5,300 MEuro funding
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Retained for Negotiation
475 proposals ……………... for 817 MEuro funding
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Selection Ratio
~1 : 5.2 for proposals …………. ~1 : 6.5 for funding
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Optical Network and Photonics
Technologies Projects in IST
Optical Networks
and Network
Management
Optical
Components and
Sub-Systems
Future and
Emerging
Technologies
10626 ATLAS
11742 DAVID
11719 HARMONICS
11387 LION
10402 METEOR
13305 WINMAN
10292 AGETHA
12700 GIFT
10450 GSQ
13322 LOBSTER
11051 TUNVIC
10356 ULTRABRIGHT
10787 WILD
EP36078 DO-ALL
EP28235 PIANOS
EP28202 OFCORSEII
EP34555 ANLM-OTDM
10033 QUCOMM
11594 EQUIS
12501 OPTIMIST
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Optoelectronics in IST
Current technological strengths::
Materials, components and subsystems:
- Photonic crystals
- Lasers and LEDs
- High brightness sources
- THz imaging
(PCIC, PICCO, PHOBOS)
(GSQ, AGETHA, TUNVIC)
(WILD, ULTRABRIGHT)
(TERAVISION)
Application areas:
Photonic networks (local, core), amplifiers, WDM, med.imaging
Trend for call 4:
All-optical and hybrid low-cost functional components
contact: Henri.Rajbenbach@cec.eu.int
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Displays / Sensors / Actuators
New IST projects - Call 1
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10692 PLADIS
PDP technologies for low cost and performance
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12339 HIGHLIGHT
Passive B&W / color Polymer LEDs
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10194 ADCIS
Medium Voltage FED displays for automotive
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12085 OCDIS
Bi-refringent films for LCD compensation
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New IST projects - Call 2
negotiated but not yet signed
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20394 OEDIBUS
Car driver assistance system based on a new flat and slim seethrough head up display.
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20590 CANADIS
Large area field emission displays based on carbon nanotube cathode
materials.
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20614 CROMATEAM
Low power very large message boards based on 2D tiling of LCD
pixels for highways and city public information
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The IST Workprogramme 2000
FET OPEN Call For Proposals
3rd Call For Proposals:
Feb 8, 2000:
RN2, RN3, RN4
4th Call For Proposals:
June
4.2.4 Terabit Core Networks
4.8.4 Optoelectronic Technologies
5th Call for Proposals:
September
4.2.3 Network Integration
CPA6 Next Generation Networks
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Key Action 4.2 Highlight:
Terabit Core Networks
Mobile- IP-WDM INTEGRATION
NETWORK
MANAGEMENT
OPEN
SERVICE
PLATFORM
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Q of S
ALL-OPTICAL DWDM
TERABIT CORE NETWORK
CHALLENGE:
Optical Packet Switching
HIGH
CAPACITY
Regional Infrastructure Investment
The projected growth in bandwidth usage shows
that all users will require 10-100 Mbit/s by around
2008-2012
Support for investment to encourage the provision
of optical fibre infrastructure for use by public
services (hospitals, schools, administration…) in
peripheral Regions will also facilitate the future
provision of fibre for residential users in these
areas
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OD7
Network Infrastructure Investment
The primary aim should be to put into place high speed
optical fibre data networks in each local or Regional area:
all universities, training centres, research institutes
and libraries should have a optical Gigabit Ethernet
or 1.2Gbit/s fibre connection.
Secondary schools should have 622Mbit/s or Fast
Ethernet optical fibre connection.*
A 55Mbit/s optical link (or VDSL) would be
sufficient for most primary schools.
* based on 1000 pupils, 1 PC per 10 pupils,
fast Internet connection=2Mbit/s per PC
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CONCLUSIONS
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The future Global Information Infrastructure
will be based on WDM optical networks
Optical network implementation will be driven
by client layer requirements and by the
availability of technology
Photonic Technologies RTD has an important
place in the IST Programme, to provide the
infrastructure of the Information Society
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Contact Co-ordinates
DG Information Society
EUROPA server:
www.europa.eu.int
IST Programme: - CORDIS: www.cordis.lu/ist
ACTS Photonics Homepage: www.intec.rug.ac.be/horizon
All-optical and terabit networks
Andrew HOUGHTON
Andrew.Houghton@cec.eu.int
Displays
Marc BOUKERCHE
Marc.Boukerche @cec.eu.int
Advanced opto-electronics and
microelectronics
Henri RAJBENBACH
Henri.Rajbenbach@cec.eu.int
Quantum information processing and
communications
Gustav KALBE
Gustav.Kalbe@cec.eu.int
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