METRO-HAUL

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Project Overview

The aim of this project is to design and build a smart optical metro infrastructure able to support traffic originating from heterogeneous 5G access networks, addressing the anticipated capacity increase and its specific characteristics, e.g., mobility, low latency, low jitter etc. This infrastructure will also support a wide variety of services and use cases with special emphasis on services from various industries vertical to the ICT.

This will be achieved by architecting new access-facing and core-facing nodes, complete with storage and compute facilities, interconnected by novel, spectrally efficient, and adaptive optical transmission networks. Advanced concepts, such as hardware disaggregation and virtualisation, will assist in hitting challenging cost targets whilst enabling automation and programmability – all supported by a purpose-designed SDN-based control plane which will interface with client applications, intelligently catering for the wide range of 5G KPIs.

METRO-HAUL will coordinate the disparate elements of transmission, switching, networking, compute, and storage, orchestrating dynamic solutions for multiple 5G applications.

METRO-HAUL will carry out Proof of Concept demonstrations of its networking solution involving the interconnection of metro node prototypes, the use of the project’s transmission technologies, and the associated control plane and orchestration software. The final project demonstrations will also involve the demonstration of actual 5G and vertical services across the METRO-HAUL test-bed.

Additionally, the project will actively participate in the relevant standardization bodies, promoting METRO-HAUL solutions to the wider community.

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The 24th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) Conference and Metro-Haul Best Paper Award

Technical conferences are becoming increasingly virtual since the outbreak of Covid-19, and last week the 24th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) transitioned to become a remote […]
From Earth to Space: how optical technologies will play a significant role in future Internet

Exponential increases in Internet speed have facilitated an entirely new set of applications and industry verticals underpinned by evolving fixed optical networks, and projects such as Metro-Haul. As we pioneered […]
Metro-Haul Releases a discussion document for “Optics Research for Future Smart Networks and Services”

Infrastructure projects on a national or international scale are a rare occurrence, due to their size, cost and complexity. Historical undertakings such as the construction of a comprehensive rail network, […]
The advances of Metro-Haul confirms that: “Skynet” is unavoidable.

“Terminator” is a Hollywood blockbuster movie sequel starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that was launched back in 1984 and currently the latest saga is on screens. The movie plot is around a […]
The Metro-Haul 2nd Year Annual Review – A personal perspective from the overall project manager, Andrew Lord

It’s a respectable 10am and my trusty Technical Manager for Metro-Haul (Albert) arrives on my drive, and we duly set off to catch the Eurostar from Ebbsfleet on our journey […]
Dark Matters about Metro-Haul

One of the delightful aspects about European research in H2020 is the chance to interact and work with a fantastic set of engineers, scientists, and technologists on interesting and highly […]
Evolving VPN-based Services: A Framework for Enhanced VPNs

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become one of the most sold network services offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They provide connectivity between remote customer sites; the technology allows computers […]
IETF ACTN: From Standards to Deployment Light Reading Video Interview

Metro-Haul WP6 Leader Adrian Farrel was recently interviewed by Light Reading at during Metro-Hauls workshop at NGON and DCI World 2019 in Nice, and part of NGON’s Optical Masterclass Series. […]
IETF Tools for Management and Operation of Flexible Optical Metro Networks in Support of 5G

We have just held a successful pre-conference workshop at NGON and DCI World 2019 in Nice as part of NGON’s Optical Masterclass Series. The title of the workshop was “Evolving […]
Speakers announced and agenda published for Metro-Haul Pre-Conference Workshop at NGON 2019

As we complete the planning for Metro-Haul’s pre-conference workshop to be held at NGON and DCI World, it is about time to give you an update. NGON and DCI World […]
Metro-Haul Pre-Conference Workshop at NGON 2019

by Adrian Farrel NGON and DCI World has become a regular event in the calendar for people working in optical networking. The 2019 conference will be held from May 21st […]
Safe Cities – A Metro-Haul Use Case

by Stephan Rasp The Metro-Haul project depends heavily on a number of use cases to establish realistic requirements to underpin the research and drive the development or architecture, software, and […]
5GPPP Coordination – A Personal View by Adrian Farrel

On the 20th and 21st of this month, Albert Rafel and I attended a 5GPPP workshop in Kista, Stockholm to coordinate the approach to 5G KPIs across a number of […]
Standardization of 100-Gbit/s Coherent Interfaces by ITU-T SG15

By Michael Eiselt, ADVA Optical Networking Disaggregated optical networks require a careful specification of the interfaces between the network segments. In particular, the coherent transmission systems must be well specified […]
Metro-Haul’ers Win Best Student Paper Award at CNSM 2018

Well done to Daniel Perdices and his co-authors: David Muelas, Luis de Pedro, Jorge E. L´opez de Vergara; for their award-winning paper “Network Performance Monitoring with Flexible Models of Multi-Point […]
Packet-level network measurements in METRO-HAUL

One of the main challenges of the METRO-HAUL project is to implement tools to monitor future 5G metro networks. Such data can be obtained by telemetry from the different network […]
Demos, Hackathons, Dissemination, and Cooperation in Paris

Metro-Haul just held its fourth plenary (month 16), hosted by Nokia in Paris-Saclay. It was a busy meeting focusing on discussions and plans, not just status and reporting. Didier Bourse […]
Metro-Haul presence at ECOC 2018

The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is one of the biggest industry conferences in Europe. Since the Metro-Haul project launch in 2017, this is the second opportunity for Metro-Haul […]
Demonstrating What Metro-Haul has Achieved So Far

By Roberto Morro, Telecom Italia The 44th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) will take place in Rome, Italy from the 23rd to 27th September [1]. The Metro-Haul project will […]
Metro-Haul/Net2Plan Hackathon Report

By Miquel Garrich Alabarce, UPC Net2Plan [1] is a free and open-source Java tool initiated in 2011, devoted to planning, optimization, and evaluation of communication networks, with the following major […]
Metro-Haul is Innovating

by Antonio D’Errico, Work Package 6 Innovation Lead Innovation is an essential outcome of any Horizon 20-20 project. While research, dissemination, and standardisation have high value, the best results […]
What is ACTN?

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just published a “Framework for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN)” as RFC 8453 [1]. This is an important milestone for the […]
Network Slicing at the IETF

Network slicing remains a key concept in the development of new network technologies and the planning of new network services especially in support of 5G. Figure 1 Network slicing by […]
It’s Hot in Bucharest – But Metro-Haul is Hotter

The International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) has reached its 20th year, which is quite something in this rapidly moving industry. For the four day meeting in Bucharest, ICTON […]
Metro-Haul impact at OFC 2018

The Metro-Haul project is poised to make a big splash at this year’s OFC 2018. With 23 contributions accepted, including invited talks, workshops and tutorials, the consortium members are making […]
Metro-Haul Presence in ECOC 2017

Metro-Haul has had a notable presence in the last European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, on September 17-21, 2017. Main results and achievements from […]
2nd Plenary Meeting Hosted by CTTC in Castelldefels, Catalonia

5 months after the project launch, Metro-Haul project had its second plenary meeting on 7th – 9th November, which was kindly hosted by CTTC in Castelledefels, Spain. With 48 attendees […]
To Slice or Not to Slice, That is the Question

– A personal view from Adrian Farrel One of the questions exercising the partners in the Metro-Haul project is “What is a network slice?” There are several base definitions that can […]
The Metro-Haul Project in Overview

The €7.7 million Metro-Haul project, funded by the European Commission has a total of 20 partners from 7 European countries. Recent estimates suggest that by the year 2025 over 1.4 […]
Metro-Haul Project Launched

The Metro-Haul project is funded and live! Our consortium has been awarded €7.7 million by the European Commission to fund ambitious research into the application of scalable optical networks to […]

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“Exceptionally Successful” Metro-Haul Project in Support of 5G Services

“Exceptionally Successful” Metro-Haul Project Plans Final Deliverables and Showcase Demonstrations to Illustrate the Value of SDN Control of Flexible Metro Networks in Support of 5G Services Pisa Meeting of EU-Funded […]
Metro-Haul Reaches Japan

METRO-HAUL’s impact continues to spread. A recent press release from NTT reports on “NTT and Telefónica start PoC on Open Optical and Packet Transport technologies within Telecom Infra Project.” Nippon […]
Metro-Haul Year 2 Newsletter – A Year in Blogs

As we near the end of the calendar year, we thought we would publish a special newsletter which showcases a number of blogs we published earlier in the year. The […]
IETF ACTN: From Standards to Deployment Light Reading Video Interview

Metro-Haul WP6 Leader Adrian Farrel was recently interviewed by Light Reading at during Metro-Hauls workshop at NGON and DCI World 2019 in Nice, and part of NGON’s Optical Masterclass Series. […]
Metro-Haul Project Refines the Details of Its Demonstrations that Will Demonstrate the Value of SDN Control of Flexible Metro Networks in Support of 5G Services

APril 8th, 2019 – Fifth Plenary Meeting of EU-Funded Project Hosted by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 8 April 2019 – At the end of the […]
Metro-Haul Pre-Conference Workshop at NGON 2019

by Adrian Farrel NGON and DCI World has become a regular event in the calendar for people working in optical networking. The 2019 conference will be held from May 21st […]
Metro-Haul Year 2 Newsletter

Into our second year and things are heating up in Metro-Haul! This year is a “Time to Test”, with numerous hardware and software implementations on going, we are publishing initial […]
Metro-Haul lights the way to 5G optical networking at ECOC 2018

ECOC 2018 (www.ecoc2018.org) 23-27 September 2018 (Rome, Italy). The EU-funded Metro-Haul project (metro-haul.eu) is again making waves, in every sense, at ECOC 2018 – the leading European conference on optical […]
Metro-Haul Year 1 Newsletter

It has been just over 1 year since the project has been kicked off in June 2017. Here, we proudly present our first newsletter after the fruitful first year. The […]
Metro-Haul Holds Successful Plenary Session Addressing Implications of 5G Use Cases in Metro Optical Networks

9th May, 2018 Third Plenary Meeting of EU-Funded Project, Hosted in Lisbon by Coriant, Advances Technology Research and Collaboration in the Area of 5G-Optimized Metro Networks LISBON, Portugal, 9 May […]
Metro-Haul makes a big impact at OFC 2018

OFC 2018 (https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/) in San Diego is the first major conference seeing significant Metro-Haul dissemination. The project began in June 2017, and we are already seeing a wide range of […]
Bringing Flexibility to the Optical Metro Network in Support of 5G : Successful Metro-Haul Plenary Meeting Hosted by CTTC in Castelldefels

November, 2017 The Metro-Haul project is an EU funded project that has been awarded €7.7 million to fund ambitious research into the application of scalable optical networks to future 5G […]
Ambitious Multi-National 5G Optical Network Project Awarded €7.7m in EU Funding

A consortium of European companies and research institutions has been awarded €7.7 million by the European Commission to fund ambitious research into the application of scalable optical networks to future […]