METRO High bandwidth, 5G Application-aware optical network, with edge storage, compUte and low Latency

British Telecommunications (UK)

TU/e will design, develop, and experimentally assess a novel edge node in the METRO-HAUL architecture. TUE will numerically and experimentally investigate optical edge node network architectures that are able to interconnect a number of novel optical technologies to be developed in the project such as photonic WDM switches and bandwidth-variable transceivers in order to support the required dynamicity and flexibility required by 5G. Moreover, in order to enable concepts such as hardware disaggregation and virtualization of the metro node, TUE will design and implement the required opto-electronic interfaces controller boards and the software-defined networking (SDN) control agent to support programmability of the optical technologies developed in the project. In coordination with the SDN control plane, the optical nodes need to be able to adapt dynamically to the needs of specific services, optimally exploiting the data plane through the use of relevant data monitoring and analysis schemes developed within the project. TUE will participate to the lab validation and field trial demonstrators of the emerging  5G systems.