ALLEGRO - Agile Ultra Low Energy and Secure Networks

Ico_CTTC
Start: 01/01/2023
End: 30/06/2026
Funding: European
Status: On going
Research unit:
Packet Optical Networks and Services (PONS)
Acronym: ALLEGRO
Code: 101092766

The ALLEGRO project aims at designing and validating a novel end-to-end sliceable, reliable, and secure architecture for next-generation optical networks, achieving high transmission/switching capacity — with 10 Tb/s for optoelectronic devices and 1 Pbt/s for optical fiber systems — low power consumption/cost and secure infrastructures and data transfers. The architecture relies on key enabling innovations:

i.    smart, coherent transceivers exploiting multi-band & multi-fiber technologies for P2P and P2MP applications, based on e.g., high-speed plasmonic modulators/photodetectors and programmable silicon photonic integrated waveguide meshes.

ii.    loss-less, energy-efficient transparent photonic integrated optical switches, eliminating OEO conversions, e.g., with on-chip amplification in the O-band for datacom applications.

iii.    a consistent approach to security, in terms of functional/protocol architectures and communications, further improving QKD systems, enabling optical channel co-existence and researching on quantum-resistant (post-quantum) cryptography and

iv.    a scalable AI/ML assisted control and orchestration system, responsible for autonomous networking, dynamic and constrained service provisioning, function placement and resource allocation. To achieve the target objectives and KPIs, ALLEGRO has defined a clear methodology ending in ambitious demonstrators. The consortium includes a good balance of industry and research/academia with know-how in complementary fields. The results of ALLEGRO will be disseminated in leading conferences, events, and high-impact journals. They will have a concrete and measurable economic and social impact, contributing towards achieving key European objectives, reinforcing European leadership and digital sovereignty in the ongoing digital and green transition.

Ramon Casellas
PI/Project Leader
Ricardo Martínez
Researcher
Raül Muñoz
Researcher
Ricard Vilalta
Researcher
Francisco Javier Vilchez
Researcher
Laia Nadal
Researcher
Josep M. Fàbrega
Researcher
Michela Svaluto Moreolo
Researcher
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Coordinator
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
UPC-UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA
TELEFONICA INVEST. Y DESARROLLO, S.A. UNIPERSONAL
TELECOM ITALIA SPA
Aristotelio Panepistimo Thessalonikis
Ericsson Telecomunicazioni
Politecnico di Torino
Mellanox Technologies (MLNX)
Infinera
E-Lighthouse
CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Coriant R&D GmbH
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
Cosmote Kinites Tilepikoininies A.E.
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
iPronics Programmable Photonics, SL
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
LINKS Foundation
University of Bristol
Eulambia Advanced Technologies Monoprosopi Etairia Periorismenis Efthinis
Secure-IC SAS
ID Quantique SA
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