OCTAPUS (101070009)
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070009
Horizon Europe (2021-2027)
Optical circuit switched time sensitive network architecture for high-speed passive optical networks and next generation ultra-dynamic and reconfigurable central office environments
Advanced optical communication components (Photonics Partnership) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-06)
fibers · 5G · optical networks · ecosystems · employment
2022-09-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)
2026-02-28 End Date (YY-MM-DD)
€ 5,883,941
Description
Skyrocketing capacity demands and emerging 5G and industrial internet URLLC applications currently pose a new strict latency-oriented framework calling urgently for new radical architectural changes at the key aggregation infrastructure being in local proximity to the subscribers: the Central Offices (COs). A careful look into the CO reveals a capacity-latency predicament underlining the need for the employment of innovative technological solutions, with photonics emerging as the key enabling technology, that will establish a new NGCO ecosystem where component-level advancements can yield unparallel architectural benefits. OCTAPUS aims to deliver an agile, low-cost and energy-efficient PIC technology framework that will re-architect the NGCO ecosystem, transparently upgrading its capacity to 51.2Tb/s and beyond, through an innovative optically-switched backplane and transceiver toolkit. To realize its ambitious goals, OCTAPUS will leverage the novel integration of antimony-based Phase Change Materials (PCM) on the low-cost SiN to develop for the first time a non-volatile ns-scale optical switch technology for developing an ultra-high capacity optical backplane. OCTAPUS will also deploy a versatile portfolio of InP-based O-band optical components that will enable the realization of 50G low-power board-to-board and long-reach PON transceivers, securing 4x and 8x energy saving to existing state-of-the-art solutions, while reaching up to 37.5% cost improvement against conventional EML solutions, through its monolithic fabrication approach. Moreover, OCTAPUS will equip its novel PICs with low loss and compact interfaces to fibers, through advanced glass diplexer-embedded-interposers. Finally, OCTAPUS will synergize the developed optical components in a novel NGCO architecture, supporting 3 layers of traffic with deterministic latency guarantees for URLLC services, through the incorporation of reconfigurable express light paths along with TSN functionality.
Complicit Organisations
1 Israeli organisation participates in OCTAPUS.Country | Organisation (ID) | VAT Number | Role | Activity Type | Total Cost | EC Contribution | Net EC Contribution |
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Italy | NEXTWORKS (996613600) | IT01628570507 | participant | PRC | € 251,500 | € 176,050 | € 176,050 |
France | ORANGE SA (999908981) | FR89380129866 | participant | PRC | € 236,250 | € 165,375 | € 165,375 |
Greece | ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS (999895692) | EL090049627 | coordinator | HES | € 1,155,000 | € 1,155,000 | € 1,155,000 |
Germany | FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (999984059) | DE129515865 | participant | REC | € 525,000 | € 525,000 | € 525,000 |
Belgium | INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM (999981149) | BE0425260668 | participant | REC | € 556,341 | € 556,341 | € 556,341 |
Denmark | COMCORES APS (925636275) | DK35807837 | participant | PRC | € 906,250 | € 634,375 | € 634,375 |
France | TEEM PHOTONICS SA (998077330) | nan | participant | PRC | € 366,562 | € 256,593 | € 256,593 |
Greece | ORGANISMOS TILEPIKOINONION TIS ELLADOS OTE AE (999792581) | EL094019245 | participant | PRC | € 332,500 | € 232,750 | € 232,750 |
United Kingdom | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (999975329) | GB568630414 | associatedPartner | HES | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 |
Israel | MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD - MLNX (990560024) | IL512763285 | participant | PRC | € 822,275 | € 575,592 | € 575,592 |
Netherlands | SMART PHOTONICS BV (950758208) | NL851461748B01 | participant | PRC | € 732,262 | € 512,583 | € 512,583 |