SEASON - Self-Managed Sustainable High-Capacity Optical Networks

Ico_CTTC
Start: 01/01/2023
End: 01/01/2026
Funding: European
Status: On going
Research unit:
Packet Optical Networks and Services (PONS)
Acronym: SEASON
Code: 101096120

The goal of the SEASON project is to design and validate a sustainable transport network infrastructure able to support beyond 5G and new emerging services. The SEASON infrastructure will rely on the joint usage of Multi-Band (MB) and Space Division Multiplexing (SDM), spanning the access, aggregation, and metro/long-haul segments, supporting the requirements for x-haul, further integrating the packet/optical and computing layers, and targeting cost-effective capacity increase. A critical objective of such architecture is to ensure energy efficiency. SEASON will rely on power-efficient Digital Signal Processing (DSP), MBoverSDM optical switching, point-to-multipoint transceivers allowing traffic aggregation/router bypassing, and converged packet-optical solutions reducing the number of O/E/O conversions. Such complex infrastructure requires rethinking the control and orchestration systems towards autonomous optical networks, addressing not only the integration – in overarching control systems – of the Radio Access Network (RAN), access and transport segments but also adopting more agile DevOps methodologies. SEASON will leverage on cognitive networks powered by streaming telemetry, real-time network measurements and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-aided service management and orchestration for near-real time network operation, moving intelligence as close as possible to the data plane, and devising a distributed system based on multiple communicating agents and data-driven closed control loops.
SEASON will have a clear impact on the society, in a context with increased needs of connectivity and higher capacity demand required for services such as VR/ATR.

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
CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Coordinator
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
UPC-UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA
ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING SE
WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS LTD.
ERICSSON AB
Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V.
Telecom Italia Mobile
Infinera
Coriant R&D GmbH
West Aquila
Accelleran
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