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       100 Gbit/s Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies  
  The 100-GET project is divided in 5 subprojects. More information about each subproject can be found here:  
Project Key Data Project Consortium
Project ID: CP4-001 24 German, 3 French, 5 Swedish, 5 Finnish and 5 Spanish partners
Start date: 1 October 2007  
End date: September 2010 (planned)  
Total budget: 65'980 k€  
Total effort: 396 PY  
     
Coordinator: Kurt Loesch, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany  
    e-mail: kurt.loesch (at) alcatel-lucent.de  
Focus
  • Physical layer technologies for NG Ethernet-based transport networks using low cost 100GbE transponders
  • Prototypes to identify the most powerful technology options for 100GbE transport
Main Results
  • The prototypes will be analyzed in 100Gb/s transmission system tests in order to enable to identify the most powerful technology options for next generation 100 Gigabit Ethernet products.
Abstract
During recent years a growing trend towards IP/Ethernet transport technologies can be observed for local area, access, metro and core networks, and it is a common understanding that Ethernet will be the dominant transport technology of next generation metro/core networks. The expected strong growth of traffic in data networks combined with high pressure on transport costs will lead to a strong demand for the next generation of Ethernet technology soon. 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) is expected to be the next logical evolution step after 10 GbE and according standardisation activities are already under discussion. Moreover, this major technological step has to be done in line with the evolution of a flexible broadband next generation metro/backbone network including the convergence of Ethernet with optical transport technologies (SDH/SONET, OTH, WDM). The 100GET project addresses new networking concepts and physical layer technologies for next generation Ethernet-based transport networks (beyond 10GbE).

The network part aims at convergent networks based on Multi-Layer, Multi-Service architecture with advanced 100 Gbit/s-technologies and novel Layer 2 packet transport techniques offering • Carrier Grade performance in order to fulfil reliability, availability, quality of service, and supervision requirements of the future services and broadband applications • Scalable network solutions with node capacities in the multi-Terabit/s range to match the rapidly growing network traffic introduced by new services • Integrated control of network elements based on two approaches (Transport Multiprotocol Label Switching (T-MPLS) and Provider Backbone Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)

The physical layer part investigates promising technology options for low cost 100GbE transponders offering high integration level, low power consumption and promising cost/performance tradeoffs. The most promising concepts will be designed and realised for integration into advanced 100Gbit/s Tx/Rx prototypes. The subsystem prototypes will be integrated into a 100G system demonstrator and analysed in 100Gb/s per channel transmission system tests in order to enable to identify the most powerful technology options for next generation 100 Gigabit Ethernet based transport systems. One project partner will provide a testbed for 100G field tests of network elements and transmission subsystems. It is expected that the results of this project will provide a solid basis for contributions to standardisation bodies (e.g. IEEE HSSG, …. )