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
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