EU & Japan Hoping For 100Gbps Fiber Optic Networks Through STRAUSS Project
You know what? Google's 1Gbps optic fiber network is a thing of the past already. What's cool is 100Gbps Internet. Japan and European Union have embarked on a series of research projects that'd redefine the connectivity forever. The STRAUSS project - will aim for development of a 100Gbps fiber optic network. Once developed, it would offers 5000 times the average internet connection speed Europe and Japan are getting at present. The project involves research on optical packet switching technology, optical transceivers and other hardware components working in sync with a new control software. EU and Japan will donate â¬18 million to the project. Both countries expect that the web traffic will grow 12x in the next 5 years.
The SRAUSS project stands for scalable and efficient orchestration of ethernet services using software-defined and flexible optical networks. It will aim to define a high efficiency, global optical fiber network for ethernet transport.
The project will particularly focus on developing cost and energy efficient switching nodes, flexi-grid DWDM optical circuit switching technology and long haul transport along with development of integrated and highly scalable software systems to control the networks etc.
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