LIGHTNESS

Low latency and high throughput dynamic networkninfrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects

 Coordinatore INTEROUTE S.P.A. 

 Organization address address: Via Cornelia 498
city: Rome

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: MATTEO
Cognome: BIANCANI
Email: send email
Telefono: 39066152401
Fax: 390662000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Totale costo 3˙347˙488 €
 EC contributo 2˙445˙000 €
 Programma FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
 Code Call FP7-ICT-2011-8
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-11-01   -   2015-10-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    INTEROUTE S.P.A.

 Organization address address: Via Cornelia 498
city: Rome

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: MATTEO
Cognome: BIANCANI
Email: send email
Telefono: 39066152401
Fax: 390662000000

IT (Rome) coordinator 0.00
2    BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION

 Organization address address: Calle Jordi Girona 31
city: BARCELONA

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Guadalupe
Cognome: Moreno
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 93 4137937
Fax: +34 934137721

ES (BARCELONA) participant 0.00
3    NEXTWORKS

 Organization address address: VIA LIVORNESE 1027
city: PISA

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Valentina
Cognome: Felli
Email: send email
Telefono: 390504000000
Fax: 390504000000

IT (PISA) participant 0.00
4    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN

 Organization address address: DEN DOLECH 2
city: EINDHOVEN

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Suzanne
Cognome: Udo
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 40 2475824

NL (EINDHOVEN) participant 0.00
5    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

 Organization address address: CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31
city: BARCELONA

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Mercedes
Cognome: Torrelas Font
Email: send email
Telefono: 34934017126
Fax: 3494017130

ES (BARCELONA) participant 0.00
6    UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

 Organization address address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE
city: BRISTOL

contact info
Titolo: Mrs.
Nome: Julie
Cognome: Coombs
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 117 3315535

UK (BRISTOL) participant 0.00

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lightness    plane    ocs    performance    prototyped    switch    enhanced    effectively    cluster    data    switching    transmission    ops    tor    hybrid    inter    centre    centres    rack    optical    services    network    wavelength    transport   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of high performance data centre interconnects through the introduction of innovative photonic switching and transmission inside data centres. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will be driven by the increasing popularity of computing and storage server-side applications in the society. Indeed, the deployment of optical transmission systems leveraging Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows the transmission of more than a hundred of wavelength channels operating at 10, 40, 100 Gb/s and beyond. This effectively results in 'unlimited' bandwidth capacities of multiple Terabit/s per fibre link, which can be efficiently utilized through next-generation all-optical switching paradigms like Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) or Optical Packet Switching (OPS).In this context, the LIGHTNESS project will join efforts towards the demonstration of a high-performance all-optical hybrid data plane for data centre networks, combining both OCS and OPS equipment to implement transport services tailored to the specific applications' throughput and latency requirements. To this goal, an OPS node suitable for intra- data centre connectivity services will be developed and prototyped during the project, together with an enhanced Top of the Rack (TOR) switch seamlessly connecting servers in each rack to the hybrid OCS/OPS inter-cluster network. As an additional achievement of LIGHTNESS, the OCS/OPS inter-cluster network will be empowered with a control plane entity able to dynamically provision both OCS and OPS transport services in response of either the data centre management plane or the enhanced ToR switch. Such a control plane will also be developed and prototyped for integration in the final LIGHTNESS demo throughout the project.The LIGHTNESS project, joining partners with broad expertise in all data centre, optical data plane and optical control plane worlds, will bring innovation to the realization of data centre networking solutions meeting the real needs in such environments.

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