The 5th plenary meeting of the OCTAPUS project took place between 09-10 October 2024 in Pisa, Italy. The meeting was organized by Nextworks.
The consortium had the chance to discuss the technical progress of the project as well as the advances in the field of 50G transceivers for HS-PON networks, low-power optical circuit switching devices and SDN-controlled TSN-networking with deterministic traffic profiles.
The OCTAPUS project was presented at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, that took place between 22-24 July 2024 in Pisa Italy.
Pietro Piscione from Nextworks presented the work entitled "Building the Enhanced Control Plane of Next Generation Central Offices" at the Workshop on Control and Management of Future Optical Networks. The manuscript has been published by IEEE and can be found in https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10635947/
Dr. Agapi Mesodiakaki presented OCTAPUS project, discussing its main goal and path towards 6G transport networks during her online lecture on Next Generation Systems and Networks to the MSc students of the Department of Applied Informatics of the University of Macedonia.
The 1st review meeting of the OCTAPUS project was successfully completed on Tuesday 30 April 2024, where the consortium partners presented the remarkable progress of the project and together with the Project Officer and the reviewers they set clear goals for the coming months.
OCTAPUS organized the 4th plenary meeting at the facilities of TEEM at Grenoble in France on 5-6 March 2024 to discuss the progress of the project and prepare for the first review meeting.
