Optical networking TF-NGN, Berlin July 2nd, 2002 Victor Reijs victor.reijs@heanet.ie July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

Agenda Photonex (Roland Leners, 45 min) Polish presentation (Michal Przybylski, 15 min) 40 Gbit/s and beyond TF-NGN activity (Mauro Campanella, 10 min) ASTON EoI (Victor Reijs, 20 min) July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

ASTON Expression of Interest Testing new technologies in local, national and (pan)European scale Getting multi domain experience Procedural issues Close relation with other (comparable) projects Close relation with carrier service providers and manufacturers (IP and optical) No dedicated test labs July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

Activities Building infrastructures (WP1) Bandwidth on Demand (WP2) Real optical switching (WP3) WDM: circuit based packet based Network Management (WP4) Transport 40 - 80 Gbit/s and higher (WP5) 10 Gbit/s Ethernet over long distances (WP6) July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

Timeline Time line Budget mid 2003 - 2006 25 MEuro July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

Participants GÉANT and others carrier service providers pan-European between selected countries Equipment manufacturers (IP, optical, test, etc.) NREN’s or International Organizations Min. 3 and max. 4 to 5 NREN’s/IO’s per activity TERENA project management (WP0) and dissemination (WP7) Project management committee (PMC) July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin

July 2nd, 2002 TF-NGN, Berlin