ORANGE participated at the IOWN Global Forum workshop in Paris on 6 Feb. 2023 presenting an "All Photonic Central Office" of the OCTAPUS project.
OCTAPUS project will be presented at the Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting (Photonics21 Partnership) on April 26-27 in Brussels.
More information and the agenda of the Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting 2023 can be found on the following link:
The 2nd General Assembly meeting of the EU-funded project OCTAPUS took place on 23-24 March 2023, organized by COSMOTE at the premises of OTE Megaron in Athens, Greece.
Representatives of the consortium had the chance to discuss the project’s activities and plan the future actions towards the development on an Optical Circuit Switched Time Sensitive Network architecture for High-Speed Passive Optical Networks and next generation ultra-dynamic and reconfigurable Central Office environments, including consortium partners
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
- SMART Photonics
- Teem Photonics
- COSMOTE
- Fraunhofer IZM
- imec
- Orange Communications SA
- Nextworks S.r.l.
- NVIDIA Networking
- Comcores ApS
- University of Southampton
On 13/1/2023, ORANGE published a new article on the OCTAPUS project, detailing the OCTAPUS project plan for the development, transformation and the new network, aiming to design a next-generation ecosystem, capitalizing on the properties of photonic technologies.
Read the news-article on the following link:
https://hellofuture.orange.com/en/photonics-paving-the-way-for-next-generation-networks/
The kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project OCTAPUS took place on the Octοber 4-5, 2022, at the premises of the WinPhoS Research Group of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece.
OCTAPUS, led by AUTH, aims to develop an Optical Circuit Switched Time Sensitive Network architecture for High-Speed Passive Optical Networks and next generation ultra-dynamic and reconfigurable Central Office environments.
Representatives of the consortium gathered in Thessaloniki in a highly inspiring atmosphere and successfully launched the project’s activities. The OCTAPUS consortium partners are:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
SMART Photonics
Teem Photonics
COSMOTE
Fraunhofer IZM
imec
Orange Communications SA
Nextworks S.r.l.
NVIDIA Networking
Comcores ApS
University of Southampton
