Future of Optical Networking
European Union Plans & Activities
Bernhard FABIANEK
Bernhard.Fabianek@cec.eu.int
www.cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/rn/home.html
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General
"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"
ACTS Fibre Trials – 1997!
Oslo
Stockholm
Jönköping
Århus
London
Lannion
Paris
Lisbon
Aveiro
Madrid
Berlin
Ghent Hannover
Krakow
Bruxelles Kassel
Stuttgart
München
Wien
Milano
Rome
Evolution scenario optical network architecture
Source: ACTS Photonics Roadmap 1999
What
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What’s
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Researcher: Fast Growing Needs
Enabler – eInfrastructures
Researcher: the most precious capital and the centre of all developments!
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ÉANT2: The
GÉANT2:
The Flagship
Flagship of
of Networking
Networking Activities
Activities in
in Europe
Europe
GÉANT2: a pan-European network infrastructure
exploring the latest developments in
telecommunications technology
 Network Services for National Research and
Education Networks (NRENs)
 Platform for Testing – Lambdas, GRIDs, IPv6,...
 Hybrid Network:
Photonics + IP
 400+ Active Elements
 12 000 km Fibre
New G
ÉANT2 Dark
-Fibre Network
GÉANT2
Dark-Fibre
Interconnecting
-Science Initiatives
Interconnecting ee-Science
Initiatives across
across the
the World
World
Virtual Silk Highway
GÉANT2
EGEE, DEISA
EUMEDconnect
EUMEDGRID
ALICE
EELA
South Africa
Cosmic Ray Observatory
Operational or contract signed
Request to interconnect received
Radio Astronomy - eVLBI
Pakistan
India
TEIN2
EUChinaGrid
EU+ NRENs
GÉANT
National
NRENs
Campus
Universities
National funds
European
Other
funds
15 M€/y
Global
Requiring new
levels of cooperation
EUMEDconnect,
ALICE, TEIN2
EU funds
G
ÉANT: The Model
GÉANT:
50 M€/y
400 M€/y
~3+ B€/y
What is NOT Needed?
 New technology
“Everything” has already been done
No need to re-invent the wheel
 An overall management and control layer
 40 Gb/s interfaces
100 Gb/s has to be the next step to make it worthwhile
(technically and economically) to upgrade
 SDH on steroids
SDH for point-to-point links is sufficient
 Intelligent optical network
What is Needed!
 10 Gb/s Ethernet switches with C/DWDM interfaces
Previously one would have called this EXC
 Even better a Router with 10 (or 100) Gb/s C/DWDM interfaces
 An easy way to manage and monitor line equipment
SNMP for amplifiers, etc. via out of band links?
 A “working implementation” of the X-interface
To allow for an easy way to provision chunks of 1GE across domains and
different technologies
 Optical Burst Switching
To allow for statistical multiplexing of wavelengths
 Global coordination on an operational level
To allow for end-to-end on-demand wavelengths across multiple domains
Watch out for
 Cheap and dirty photonic networking
It does not always need a fully specified and
engineered solution to reliably deliver data
 Campus networks are triggering a huge demand for
a photonic network infrastructure (1 GE to the desktop)
 Developing regions will use this opportunity to
leapfrog several technology steps (Digital Divide)
 The NRENs rolling out national fibre optic backbones
Consequently photonics know-how will be widespread and
readily available
Germany - DFN Dark
-Fiber Network
Dark-Fiber
DK
KIE
DFN-Location
AWI
DWDM installiert
Fibre ordered
ROS
HAM
DES
EWE
BRE
Fibre operational
POT
HAN
5500 km
MUE
Wavelength
FR
GRE
BIE
BRA
NL
DUI
Cross Border Fibre
KAS
MAG
TUB
ZIB
GÉANT2
JEN
GIE
FRA
SAA
FR
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CH BAS
FZK
BAY
ESF
ERL
REG
AUG
KEH
CHE
ILM
GSI
WU
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HEI
ADH
DRE
CZ
MAR
BIR
AAC
HUB
GOE
LEI
FZJ
FFO
STU
GAR
PL
Research Networking
„ Pan-European coverage
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(40+ Countries/NRENs)
Dark fiber wavelength and
Gigabit connectivity at 10 Gb/s
US
Linking more than
Canada
Japan
3900 Universities
30+ Million Students
Total 200 MEuro over 4 years
(93 MEuro from EU)
Extend to Mediterranean,
Asia Pacific Rim, Latin America ...
TEIN2
ORIENT
NeDAP
Dark Fibre
10 Gbit/s
2,5 Gbit/s
<2,5 Gbit/s
SILK
SEEREN
EUMEDconnect
India
ALICE
South Africa
EUMEDconnect
TEIN2
Korea
Australia
DEISA: Linking Supercomputers
Large Hadron Collider + DEISA
A potential Scenario:
7 wavelengths for
“just” 2 experiments
+ 2 production λ
Î 100 Gb/s !!!
Conclusions
 With the support of the European Union’s
R&D Programmes a new generation of
infrastructures for research (GÉANT and Grids)
has been launched – eInfrastructures
 The European Union is investing in Lambda and
Photonics technologies to support highly
demanding user communities
The provision of an eInfrastructure is fundamental for
the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA)
The Future
 The 7th EU Framework Programme for R&D 2007 until 2013
 Research Infrastructures substantially strengthened in
scope and in money
 New areas of work addressing supercomputers and
scientific repositories in addition to GÉANT and Grids
 Test-bed Facility for the Future of the Internet
under discussion
 Practical co-operation needed between industry (vendors)
and advanced user communities (buyers)
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