ECOC is the largest conference on optical communications in Europe, and one of the most prestigious and long-standing events in this field worldwide.
This event presents a unique place for knowledge sharing, stimulating creativity, steering innovation and building collaborations. In this conference as well as in the associated exhibition, companies and institutions from all over the world shared the latest news and scientific breakthroughs from materials and devices to systems and networks and met analysts, media, government bodies, vendors and users - as well as peers, colleagues or customers.
ECOC 2021 was supported by Systematic, French cluster for digital and Deep Tech, which leads the Paris Region ecosystem with 900 members, including nearly 600 Start-up, SMEs and ISEs, 140 major industrial players, 140 academics, investors group and a group of about 20 local authorities.
In the 47th edition of the conference, TeraFlow was featured in several sessions:
Monday 13 September • 09:00 - 10:30 • Room C2
Workshop Mo1C2-WS: Applications for IMDD and Coherent in Short Reach Systems
Organisers: Christopher Fludger, Infinera - Germany; Jochen Maes, Nokia Bell Labs - Belgium; Xi Chen, Nokia Bell Labs - USA- Tuesday 14 September • 9:00 - 10:00 • Room E
Tutorial session: Advances in SDN control for Beyond 100G disaggregated optical networks
Presenter: Ramon Casellas, CTTC - Spain
- Tuesday 14 September • 10:00 - 10:15 • Room E
Paper: First Demonstration of Dynamic Deployment of SDN-enabled WDM Virtual Network Topologies (VNTs) over SDM networks
Authors: Carlos Manso (Presenter), CTTC - Spain; Raul Muñoz (Presenter), CTTC - Spain; Filippos Balasis, KDDI Research Inc. - Japan; Ricard Vilalta, CTTC - Spain; Ramon Casellas, CTTC - Spain; Ricardo Martínez, CTTC - Spain; Cen Wang; KDDI Research Inc. - Japan; Noboru Yoshikane; KDDI Research Inc. - Japan; Itsuro Morita, KDDI Research Inc. - Japan; Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI Research Inc. - Japan
This paper presents the dynamic deployment of logical WDM VNTs by deploying virtual links between ROADM/OXC nodes using spatial channels provided by SDM networks, and proposes a cloud-native WDM over SDM (WDMoSDM) SDN orchestrator that is responsible for the lifecycle management of the SDN-enabled WDM VNTs.
- Wednesday 15 September • 14:15 - 14:30 • Room E
Paper: Scalable Physical Layer Security Components for Microservice-Based Optical SDN Controllers
Authors: Carlos Natalino (Presenter), Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden; Carlos Manso, CTTC - Spain; Ricard Vilalta, CTTC - Spain; Paolo Monti, Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden; Raul Muñoz, CTTC - Spain; Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden
This paper proposes and demonstrates a set of microservice-based security components able to perform physical layer security assessment and mitigation in optical networks. Results illustrate the scalability of the attack detection mechanism and the agility in mitigating attacks. - Wednesday 15 September • 17:30 - 17:45 • Room E
Paper: Optical Network Telemetry with Streaming Mechanisms using Transport API and Kafka
Authors: Ricard Vilalta (Presenter), CTTC - Spain; Ramon Casellas, CTTC - Spain; Ricardo Martinez, CTTC - Spain; Raul Muñoz, CTTC - Spain; Alfredo González-Muñiz, Telefónica I+D, Global CTO Unit - Spain; Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Telefónica I+D, Global CTO Unit - Spain
This paper presents a streaming mechanism for optical networks based on the Kafka architecture and protocols, to efficiently distribute state and network updates following the upcoming ONF Transport API streaming implementation agreement. The proposed mechanism is validated and experimentally evaluated. Wednesday 15 September • 16:15 - 16:45 • Room E
Paper: Role of monitoring and analytics in next-generation optical networks
Authors: Lluis Gifre Renom (Presenter), CTTC - Spain; Fabien Boitier, Nokia Bell Labs - France
This paper studies the requirements that Control, Orchestration, and Management (COM) systems for optical networks should fulfil, present a minimal set of components they should implement, and proposes a research point of view regarding the future needs for COM systems for optical networks.
