Symposia



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Morning Symposium

 

Wednesday, 8:45-12:45, 30 September, 2015

 

Optical Communications and Networks for Datacenters

 

In remembrance of Professor Harm Dorren, a pioneer of Data Centre Technologies, Technical University of Eindhoven

 

Organizers:

Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University

Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Bristol

 

Abstract: The global amount of digital information is growing at a staggering pace of 50% p.a. and will exceed 60 Zettabytes in 2020. While storing and processing of such massive data will offer new business opportunities, it will also require new Data Centre and Data Centre networking architectures to provide the necessary scalability, resource sharing, and automation.

Scalability is achieved by increasing the number of connected compute and storage devices as well as their interface and processing speeds. Warehouse-size Data Centres can easily host ten thousands of servers with their associated storage. Using multiple geographically dispersed Data Centres provides redundancy and further scalability. Server and storage disaggregation and virtualization improve the Data Centre utilization by resource sharing between multiple tenants or applications. Open source or vendor-specific software frameworks allow an automated control of compute and storage resources.

This special symposium provides a forum for service & content providers, system integrators, equipment manufacturers, component suppliers and academia to discuss requirements, challenges and solutions for next-generation Data Centres. Key results from latest research as well as practical findings from commercial deployments will be presented.

 

Speakers/Talks

 

Ton Koonen, TUE

Tribute to Prof. Harm Dorren

 

Ryo Takahashi, NTT Device Tech. Labs

A Hybrid OPS/OCS/VOCS Torus-Datacenter Network Enabled by Smart Flow Management

 

Nicola Calabretta, TUE

High performance and low latency data center networks exploiting optical switching technologies

 

Nathan Farrington, US San Diego

Enabling Data Center SDN with Stateless Source Routing

 

Antonella Bogoni, CNIT

The ROAM project: revolutionising optical fiber transmission and networking using the orbital angular momentum of light

 

Nick Parsons, Polatis

Dynamic optical circuit switching for efficient and scalable software-defined datacentre networks

 

Reza Nejabati, University of Bristol

Towards a Completely Softwareized and Functional Programmable Optical Data Centre

 

Jorg Peter Elbers, ADVA

Emerging Trends in Optical Data Center Networking

 

Ramon Casellas, CTTC

Inter DC orchestration solutions and overarching control: towards a 5G integration

 

Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent

Potential and Challenges of SDN Control for on-demand Optical Network provisioning

 

Albert Rafel, BT

Pragmatic and open SDN approaches to video-centric and resilient optical access networks

 

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Afternoon Symposium

 

Wednesday, 14:15-17.30, 30 September, 2015

 

Light: Enabling the Global Internet Era

 

To commemorate the International Year of Light 2015

 

Organizer:

Periklis Petropoulos, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton

 

Abstract: The International Year of Light celebrates the importance of light-based technologies in the development of our societies. Optical technologies have been responsible for the transformation in communications and the evolution of the Internet as we have experienced it in the last two decades, and will play an ever-increasing role in tomorrow’s communication networks. This event looks back at the history of optical communication technologies and offers a glance to what the future may hold.



 

 

Speakers/Talks

 

John Harvey, Vice President of the International Commission on Optics

The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies



 

 

 

Emmanuel B. Desurvire, Thales Research & Technology

Light information traveling through a fiberglass web



 

 

 

Meint K. Smit, COBRA Research Institute, Technical Univ Eindhoven

Past, Present and Prospects of Photonic Integration



 

 

 

Neal S. Bergano, TE Subsea Communications, LLC

Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Systems – Enabling a Connected World



 

 

 

Andrew R. Chraplyvy, Bell Labs

The Second Era in the Age of Optical Fiber Communications



 

 

 

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