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METRO-HAUL’s impact continues to spread. A recent press release from NTT reports on “NTT and Telefónica start PoC on Open Optical and Packet Transport technologies within Telecom [...]

As we near the end of the calendar year, we thought we would publish a special newsletter which showcases a number of blogs we published earlier in the year. The bulk of the newsletter is made up [...]

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become one of the most sold network services offered by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). They provide connectivity between remote customer sites; the [...]

We have just held a successful pre-conference workshop at NGON and DCI World 2019 in Nice as part of NGON’s Optical Masterclass Series. The title of the workshop was “Evolving [...]

by Adrian Farrel NGON and DCI World has become a regular event in the calendar for people working in optical networking. The 2019 conference will be held from May 21st to 23rd in Acropolis, Nice, [...]

On the 20th and 21st of this month, Albert Rafel and I attended a 5GPPP workshop in Kista, Stockholm to coordinate the approach to 5G KPIs across a number of EU-funded research projects. The [...]

Metro-Haul just held its fourth plenary (month 16), hosted by Nokia in Paris-Saclay. It was a busy meeting focusing on discussions and plans, not just status and reporting. Didier Bourse from [...]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just published a “Framework for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN)” as RFC 8453 [1]. This is an important milestone for the [...]

The International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) has reached its 20th year, which is quite something in this rapidly moving industry. For the four day meeting in Bucharest, [...]

 – A personal view from Adrian Farrel One of the questions exercising the partners in the Metro-Haul project is “What is a network slice?” There are several base definitions [...]