Optical Networking Symposium

Organisers: Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

The evolution towards 6G mobile access (terrestrial, mobile, satellite, …) will push of an evolution of the optical network infrastructure in wired segments to support many types of new diversified services. This evolution will also bring new challenges for high-capacity optical transport architectures and technologies both for the medium/long haul segment but also penetrating edge network segments closer to the to the mobile base stations and the computation/storage available in the cloud/edge continuum.

The optical network architecture, and its hardware and software components should match the increased resulting aggregated traffic, the slicing features, in terms of network capacity, latency (also supporting synchronization capabilities), packet loss, access to computing, density of connected devices, energy consumption, security, network availability and reliability, The optical network of the future must be able to cope with such capabilities, easing the interoperability among vendors and allowing operators to offer new services.

The WINE symposium aims to explore such future landscape of optical networking and its control plane evolution exploring a few technologies that can address these challenges and determine a scientific and industrial impact. WINE aims to gather experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss directions of optical networking advancements.

1st Session (9:00 – 10:30)

Introduction and overview of the WINE workshop

 “Safeguarding Connectivity in optical networks through quantum technologies”
Masahiro Takeoka (Keyo University, Japan)
Cristoph Becher (Saarland University, Germany)

“Bridging worlds: joint Networking and Sensing”
Francesco Carpentieri (OpenFiber, Italy)
Pierpaolo Boffi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

“Harnessing Data Processing Units: Introducing SmartNic in the optical networking arena”
Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (NVIDIA/Mellanox Israel)

Coffee break (10:30 – 11:00)

2nd Session (11:00 – 12:30)

“Physical layer security: A novel approach for security in the optical domain”
Marija Furdek (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

“Embedding intelligence: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Optical Networking”
Nicola Sambo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Antonio Eira (Infinera, Portugal)

Final Panel discussion

Moderator: Piero Castoldi