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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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 elements, such as [...]

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 be [...]

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 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 example – [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]