ACTS: PHOTON

Full Name: Paneuropean Photonic Transport Overlay Network

Duration: 1/10/95-30/9/98 (Finished)

Partners:

• Siemens AG Oesterreich (Austria)
• Centro de Estudos de Telecomunicacoes (Portugal)
• Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany)
• Heinrich Hertz Institut (Germany)
• Oesterreichische Post und Telegraphverwaltung (Austria
• Lucent Technologies (Germany)
• Philips Optoelectronics Centre (The Netherlands)
• Siemens Muenchen (Germany)
• Technical University Vienna (Austria)
• Telecom Australia (Australia)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (U.K.)

Objective:

• Development of basic features of a future Pan-European transport core network, implementation of key functionalities in a field demonstrator network

INTEC's Role:

• Design and evaluation of WDM optical transport network. Analysis of the physical limitations imposed by crosstalk, noise and signal distortion.

Project Web site: http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/Research/Projects/horizon/projects/photon/photon.html