 More bandwidth and security for the
Internet
New Celtic project 100GET develops 100 Gigabit
Ethernet
The traffic on the Internet
is increasing at a rapid speed. More bandwidth in the metro and core
networks is required to cope with this steady increase. A new Celtic
project has started to work on innovative technical solutions that will
lead to more bandwidth and security in the Internet backbone networks.
Celtic project 100GET works on a giant leap in the evolution of transport
technology – the development of 100 Gigabit Ethernet.
From mid-2006 to mid-2007,
Internet traffic grew by more than half (57 percent). Bandwidth-hungry
applications in areas like music or video downloads, e-commerce, web-based
training, and telemedicine will further push Internet traffic to its
limits, requiring more capacity in the Internet backbone. New Internet
services and applications are increasing the demands on transmission
capacity, security, robustness and quality of network connections in core,
metro, and access networks.
Celtic project 100GET addresses
this challenge by expanding the capacities of the Ethernet networking
standard, which will be the dominant transport technology of next
generation metro and core networks. The main goal of 100GET is to develop
carrier-grade transport networks based on a data transmission rate of 100
billion bits per second over Ethernet at high quality.
“The strong growth of traffic in
data networks and high pressure on transport costs will soon lead to a
strong demand for next-generation Ethernet technology. 100 Gigabit
Ethernet is the next logical step after today’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet,” said
100GET’s project coordinator Kurt Loesch from Alcatel-Lucent.
Partners in the 100GET project
include leading companies and research institutes in the field of
communications technology like ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent,
Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Deutsche Telekom, and Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute. There are altogether 30 project partners from
Germany, France, and Sweden. Partners from Finland are also joining the
project. 100GET has a duration of three years until 2010 and a total
funding of about 32 million euro. It is co-funded by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the French Ministry of
Economics, Finance and Industry, the Swedish Governmental Agency for
Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), and expectedly by the Finnish Funding Agency
for Technology and Innovation (TEKES).
About Celtic
CELTIC is a EUREKA cluster
programme, which initiates and runs privately and publicly funded R&D
projects in the field of telecommunications. The initiative is supported
by most of the major European players in communication technologies.
CELTIC projects focus on telecoms networks, applications, and services
based on a complete-system approach. CELTIC is the only European R&D
programme fully dedicated to complete system-integrated telecommunications
solutions. The size of the CELTIC budget is in the range of 1 billion
euro. CELTIC is open to any kind of project participation from all EUREKA
countries. So far, 29 countries are participating in CELTIC. CELTIC is
operated and supported by the following major players in
telecommunications: Alcatel- Lucent, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson,
Eurescom, France Telecom, Italtel, Nokia Siemens Networks, RAD Data
Communications, Telefónica, and Thomson. Celtic website: www.celtic-initiative.org
About EUREKA
EUREKA is a pan-European network
for market-oriented, industrial R&D. EUREKA supports the competitiveness
of European companies through international collaboration to create
partnerships and networks of innovation. The objective is to bring high
quality research and development efforts to the marketplace and encourage
the multiplying effects of cooperation. The aim is to advance and improve
the quality of life. EUREKA website:
www.eureka.be
Press release for download in pdf
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Press contact
Milon Gupta, public relations officer, Celtic Office c/o Eurescom
Phone: +49 6221 989-121, e-mail:
press@celtic-initiative.org
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