2018

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, [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 […]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 [...]