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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;">Dynamic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks (DICONET)</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;">Seventh Framework Programme</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;">January 20</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">08</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;"> June</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;">10</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;">N/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="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">The project DICONET is targeting a novel approach to optical networking providing a disruptive solution for the development of the core network of the future. It is the vision and goal of the DICONET consortium to provide ultra high speed end-to-end connectivity with quality of service and high reliability through the use of optimized protocols and routing algorithms that will complement a flexible control and management plane offering flexibility for the future network infrastructure. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">Transparent networks are widely seen as the prime candidates for the core network technology of the future. These networks provide ultra high-speed end-to-end connectivity with high quality of service and failure resiliency. A downside of transparency is the accumulation of physical impairments over long distances, which are difficult to mitigate using physical-layer techniques only, and the novel challenges in fault detection/localization. </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 DICONET project presents a set of techniques and algorithms implemented at multiple layers, culminating with the physical implementation of a transparent optical network on a testbed. DICONET consists of a set of impairment-aware network management algorithms, such as routing and wavelength assignment, monitoring, failure localization, rerouting, all integrated within a uni</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">ﬁ</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: #3d3e3d;">ed control plane, which extends known solutions to include the impairment-awareness of the underlying layers. DICONET is a true cross-layer solution for transparent optical networks.</span></p>
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