PROSPECTUS

This project investigates the economic advantages and disadvantages to carriers of alternative optical system architectures.  A particular focus is mapping network architecture to device requirements and the associated cost of those devices, and includes issues such as dynamic bandwidth allocation in the physical layer and self-install optical network units (ONUs) and fiber terminations.

The research team is also focusing on the production of devices which could play a role in enabling network architectures across the unit-cost/device-reach spectrum.  At one side of this spectrum, we are looking at designs aimed at achieving short-reach low-performance optoelectronic devices at very low cost (i.e., for FTTP applications). At the other extreme, we are beginning to investigate the potential for monolithically integration of multiple devices on a single chip to allow production of high-performance, long-reach application devices within cost-targets.

The working group is providing a forum for interaction among university and industry researchers and practitioners, representing different perspectives across the communications value chain and will write a series of executive white papers to be disseminated among the member companies and the broader research and development community.

MEETINGS

2009

Workshop- October 28

CIPS Annual - May 20, 21

April 7

 March 10

  February 12

Workshop-January 21

2008

December 16

Workshop-November 18

October 16

September 11

July 30

June 17

CIPS Annual -May 15

   April 22

March 11

February 11

Advanced PON Wksp - Jan 9

Meeting Archives