Communications
‘Coherent everywhere: migration of coherent communications to the network edge’
The Communications theme will focus on real-time internet that will require a converged wireless/optical edge cloud with unprecedented ability to dynamically reconfigure in the wavelength and time domain in response to rapid and massive bandwidth fluctuations and latency-critical service demands. Coherent communications systems offer the potential to deliver this vision, but are currently orders of magnitude too expensive. This Theme will address the question: can we build a coherent transceiver at the tens of Euro cost point required for the network edge and, if so, how will this transform metro-scale access network design?
