1. Plennary Meeting 11th October 2012, Brussels http://caon.i2cat.net

2. Agenda Presentation of cluster o General aims and mission of the cluster o Improving research projects collaboration (clustering) o Involved projects and their interactions o CaON technical outputs during the last period and Impact on the CaON architecture o CaON input to HORIZON2020 Feedback from ECOC 2012 Newcomer projects (3 IPs and 5 STREPs) short introductions o Reached objectives (Idealist, Discus, Combo, Content, Sodales, Coconut, Lightness, ) Standardization CaON representation to FUNEMS 2013 Conclusions o Reached objectives o Welcome to newcomers and goodbye to ending projects o Next challenges and actions

3. Application driven and technology enabled High-speed data 400G, 1Tb/s Residential Media Flexible Network MULTI-BAND SSS Technology Enabled Application Driven Intelligent Adaptive Optical Networks MULTI-BAND AMPLIFIER FAST OPTICAL SWITCH SDM (DE)MUX MULTI-BAND SSS BROADBAND λ-CONVERSION Elastic use of resources Flexible use of technology Cloud The CaON Vision of Future Optical Networks

4. Support for Multi-gigabit Access Rates (FP7 ALPHA, OASE) Spectrum management: Flexible, Elastic Optical Layer (FP7 STRONGEST, call 8 IDEALIST) Architectures on Demand Control Plane (FP7 MAINS and STRONGEST) Targeted extensions for dynamic and data plane-aware network services Software/Hardware Defined Network Programmability (FIRE OFELIA and FIRE call 8 ALIEN) For infrastructure and service adaptation Optical Network and IT Convergence (FP7 GEYSERS) Infrastructure Virtualisation, Slicing and Isolation Optical Network Cognition (FP7 CHRON, UK EPSRC Photonics HyperHighway) Energy Efficient Optical Networks (FP7 STRONGEST and TREND) Key Research Challenges for Realizing the CaON Reference Model

5. Experimental interaction Information exchange Work together Involved projects and their interactions

6. APPLICATION CLOUD/SERIVICE CONTROL PLANE DATA PLANE virtualization CaON architecture - project positioning

7. Publications Publications: White paper : http://caon.i2cat.net/wp-content/files_flutter/CaON_positioning_paper_final_v0.1.docx ICTON 2012 :Research trends on ICT convergence from the CaON Cluster: http://caon.i2cat.net/wp-content/files_flutter/ICTON_CaON_invited_paper.pdf H2020 strategic paper: http://caon.i2cat.net/wp-content/files_flutter/CaON_H2020_talk.pdf

8. ECOC 2012 Hot topics: Flexible and elastic networks “Design of Flexible & Elastic Networks” “Control Plane Solutions for Flexible and Elastic Optical Networks” “Data Plane Solutions for Flexible and Elastic Optical Networks Open Flow and Virtualization for optical networks. Multicore fibres, passive and active few mode fibres and structured fibres. Competing technologies for NG-PONs access Next event: 22 - 26 September 2013 ICC London ExCeL, UK

9. FuNeMS 2013 Suggestions for Keynotes, Panels, Workshops All Optical network when? At what cost? what technological barriers; Keynote/Panel (impact of the SDN model on DCN) CaON is working on the TPC members list

10. Standardization NGPON2 OFDM is not mature enough for standardization Multilayer coordination The current standards need to be extended to suggest new configurations (e.g. new TE-Links) to the VNTM. UNI is currently being extended Multilayer PCE, VNTM and UNI can cooperate together. Multidomain optical networks Hierarchical PCE is a good candidate to enable multi-domain interworking. Subwavelegths Commom termionolgy is being standardized at ITU-T GMPLS extensions to be proposed at IETF Flexgrid ITU is standardizing the date plane Frawework has just started in IETF… GMPLS/PCE extensions to be done. IT and Optical network Convergence First steps taken at IETF

11. DEMOS I

12. DEMOS II

13. Sergi Figuerola, Dimitra Simeonidou, Andrea Di Giglio, Juan Fernandez Palacios CaON Chairs ans co-Chairs