The Road Towards Packet Optical Transport Networks

Optical transport networks are being subjected to huge changes in the way they transport information. The main driver behind these changes is the continuous growth in data traffic from mobile services, cloud services and video services, which are all, almost IP-based services. As core transport networks were initially designed, in the 80s, to transport voice services, they were, and most of them still are, circuit centric based networks, and consequently they lack efficiency in transporting IP packets.

This half-day seminar will present the evolution of optical transport networks and its current trends and is focused on the evolution of the optical DWDM network architecture, on the technologies that allow efficient transport of IP packets over optical networks, like IP/MPLS, MPLS-TP and OTN; on the control plane technologies, like GMPLS; and also on network virtualization and software defined networking (SDN) technologies.

The seminar aims to bring together academic and industrial (manufacturers and operators) perspectives and to highlight the key technologies and solutions for optical transport networks. The seminar is open to all interested in this topic (students, researchers, professionals). Due to limitations on the participants number a pre- registration is required (see registration section).