TRIUMPH
(Transparent Ring Interconnection Using Multi-wavelength PHotonic switches)
Project Presentation
Main Objectives
"To develop the network technologies and architectures allowing a generalised and affordable availability of broadband access to European users, including those in less developed regions, peripheral and rural areas" (IST "Broadband for all" Strategic Objective).
This project proposes the development of network architectures and system solutions that will facilitate future broadband access networks. The effort will focus on Transparent Ring Interconnection using multi-wavelength photonic switches with the aim to increase the network functionality and capacity. The proposed scenario refers to a high capacity networks with transparent connectivity between core/regional-metro rings supporting data rates up to 130Gbit/s and metro-access rings supporting up to 40Gbit/s. The required functionality in such architecture will be provided through an optical switching node located at the interconnection points between rings. The design and development of this node will be the focus of the project with the aim to provide a cost effective solution that can transparently offer inter-domain connectivity. This solution will also support functionalities currently unavailable in the optical layer. Our approach will offer transparent optical grooming/aggregation and multi-wavelength 2R optical regeneration. This transparency will enable a variety of data rates, protocols and formats that are present in the metro and access network environments and are associated with the requirements of new and emerging services and applications that are rapidly becoming available to the end-users.
Key Issues
Due to the unpredictable growth of data, particularly internet traffic, the emergence of higher-bandwidth applications originating from the users and the requirements for content delivery the future communication grid must be agile and able to react rapidly to support end-to-end bandwidth requirements. Related to this there is an incredible amount of pressure placed on metropolitan area networks as the metro network segment imposes limitations in the delivery of broadband services to the end-users.
- A new generation of metro networks is required to relieve this pressure and to offer the means to enable the metropolitan network to allow for quality end-to-end connectivity and value-added services.
- Technical breakthroughs in research are required to further accelerate the realization of transparent optical networks to offer increased transmission bandwidth, integrated transmission and switching capabilities and optical signal processing functionality.
- Transparent networks will be based on advanced photonic infrastructures that will employ optical signal processing and dynamic impairment management to eliminate the limitations of the analogue nature of optical networks. In addition new enhanced features need to be supported.
Expected Impact
The innovations introduced by the project aim at establishing a breakthrough in the implementation and deployment of advanced optical communications across an interdisciplinary array of both industrial and research stakeholders. It is expected to bring a significant impact in a number of areas including: network architectures, system implementation and technologies suitable for future broadband networks: access, metro-access and core-metro. More specifically it will:
- Provide improvement of the signal quality and the overall network performance through optical multi-wavelength 2R regeneration, thus enabling the transparency requirements.
- Provide all optical grooming/aggregation, i.e. conversion of lower rate WDM signals into higher rate single channel OTDM streams and vice versa, further enhancing the transparent functionality of the proposed system, offering an additional feature required in metro and access network environments.
- Offer reduced power consumption and compact size
Further Reading
- D1.1-Project_presentation_document.pdf
- D7.2-Concept_paper_of_TRIUMPH_router_and_manufacturability_plan.pdf
- 0709-TRIUMPH-presentation-at-ECOC2007.ppt
- TRIUMPH_flyer_ECOC08.pdf
At a Glance
| Project Coordinator: | Juerg Leuthold University of Karlsruhe Tel: +49-721-608 2480 Fax: +49-721-608 9097 |
| Technical Manager : | Prof. Dr. Ioannis Tomkos RESIT - Athens Information Technology |
| Project number: | IST-027638 STP |
| Duration: | 03/2006 – 02/2009 |
| Total Cost: | €3.8m |
| EC Contribution: | €2.75m |