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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Title: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Optical Performance Monitoring Enabling Dynamic Networks Using A Holistic Cross-Layer, Self-Configurable Truly Flexible Approach (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">ORCHESTRA)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Funding: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Horizon 2020</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Start date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">February 20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">15</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.75pt 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">End date: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">January</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">18</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Web site: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;"><a href="http://www.orchestraproject.eu/">http://www.orchestraproject.eu/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Description:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The vision of the ORCHESTRA project is to close the loop between the physical layer and the network control plane, by using information provided by the coherent transceivers that can be extended, almost for free, to operate as software-defined optical performance monitors (softOPMs). This will enable a real cross-layer optimization, providing true network dynamicity and unprecedented efficiency.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The objectives of ORCHESTRA project are the following</span></p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Develop an advanced DSP-based physical-layer multiimpairment monitoring algorithm suite</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d3e3d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop a holistic approach to Quality of Transmission (QoT) determination in all network lightpaths using information from distributed software-defined optical performance monitors (soft-OPMs) and advanced correlation algorithms</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d3e3d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop a hierarchical control and monitoring infrastructure providing active and passive monitoring capabilities with rapid and effective reactions to degradations and failures</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d3e3d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop dynamic optimization procedures for fault management and network re-optimization</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d3e3d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lower the barriers of resource sharing among operators domains through the efficient monitoring of alien lightpaths and accurate physical layer SLAs</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d3e3d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrate dynamic and highly efficient flexible network operation enabled by software-defined optical performance monitoring.</span></li>
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