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We held the 8th Customer Empowered Fibre Networks Workshop in Prague from September 15th to 16th. Major topics for this year event were:

  • photonic (all-optical) services, dark fibre channels, alien waves, fibre sharing, virtual fibre networks,
  • open dark fibre testbeds,
  • research projects and disciplines requiring photonic services or dark fibre connections,
  • dark fibre footprint used by research community (including CBFs and last miles to user premises) and expected development,
  • multidomain and multi-vendor fibre lighting issues and expected development,
  • description of transmission systems,
  • required possibilities of fibre spectrum sharing (Spectrum as a Service) in transmission systems innovation,
  • deployments and testing of high-speed optoelectronic transmission systems,
  • power consumption of transmission systems (greening),
  • potential users of real-time applications,
  • CEF Networks support for Future Internet projects,
  • end to end services for high precision and high performance applications,
  • improvement of long term REC economy,
  • enabling SDN approach for systematic service design methods

Programme

Monday September 15th, 2014

09:00 registration
10:00 Opening of the 8th CEF Networks workshop  VIDEO
Tomas Kosnar, CESNET
10:30 Strategy and Innovation in CEF Networks  VIDEO
Stanislav Sima, CESNET
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 ESnet European Extension: Aims and Architecture  VIDEO
Gregory Bell, ESnet
12:00 New Age of PIONIER Infrastructure   VIDEO
Artur Binczewski, PSNC
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 Dark fibre testbed in Japan and its optical network applications  VIDEO
Hiroaki Harai, NICT
14:00 Fibre footprint for Research Infrastructures  VIDEO
Lada Altmannova, CESNET
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 Dark Fibre in the South African Research and Education Network VIDEO
Simeon Miteff, SANreN
15:30 ALPSTEIN—roll out of SWITCH’s new optical backbone   VIDEO
Felix Kugler, SWITCH
16:00 Power savings provided by elastic optical networks considering yearly traffic fluctuations   VIDEO
Ioan Turus, DTU
16:30 Visit in optical laboratory
19:00 dinner

Tuesday September 16th, 2014

09:30 Garr-X Progress: a new step forward on GARR optical network   VIDEO
Massimo Carboni, GARR
10:00 REANNZ’s Shared Network: A Win-Win Public-Private Partnership   VIDEO
Steve Cotter, REANNZ (remote presentation, CEST + 10 hrs)
10:30 A new governmental DWDM network provided by a NREN—Lessons learned by RENATER  VIDEO
Karim Boudjemaa, RENATER
11:00 tea and coffee break
11:30 Fibre spectrum sharing for R&D Networks   VIDEO
Josef Vojtech, CESNET
12:00 Aurora2—a UK national platform for photonics and optical systems R&D   VIDEO
David Salmon, JANET
12:30 buffet lunch
13:30 Aliens, CBFs, and the Value of Optical Spectrum  VIDEO
Rob Smets, SURFNET
14:00 Arctic Optical Networking   VIDEO
Kurosh Bozorgebrahimi, UNINETT
14:30 tea and coffee break
15:00 Approach to SDN for the transport network   VIDEO
Guy Roberts, DANTE
15:30 Optical infrastructure to support R&E networking in Brazil: recent developments and future plans   VIDEO
Michael Stanton, RNP (remote presentation, CEST–5 hrs)
16:00 Working with optical parameters for simple DWDM systems   VIDEO
Jan Ferré, DeiC
16:30 A little talk about sane progress   VIDEO
Jan Radil, CESNET
17:00 Discussion and Workshop recommendations
17:30 closing of 8th CEF Networks workshop

Venue

The workshop venue was

Lecture room No. 112/113
Faculty of Architecture
Czech Technical University of Prague
Thákurova 9
Prague
Czech Republic

It is located in the campus of the Czech Technical University in Dejvice district, very close to Metro and other public transportation means. All the necessary infrastructure is available including conference and terminal rooms with Wi-Fi connectivity, demonstration area, and catering.

How to get there

The campus location is really suitable. There is a direct bus connection which brings you from/to the airport in less than 30 minutes. See the map and instructions on Google Maps.

From the airport:
Bus no. 119 (stop is in the middle of the car park outside the arrival hall, just walk straight and look for the signs) will take you to the Metro station “Dejvická” (20 minutes). Bus 119 ends here, so don’t worry. Then follow the instructions provided on the map above.
From anywhere else:
Use subway (Metro). Go to the line A and then to station Dejvická (which is end-station of this line). Plans of Metro lines are available on stations and inside trains (above every door). Then follow the instructions provided on the map above.

Dinner

Dinner venue was the Sahara Café Lounge & Restaurant, náměstí Míru 6, Prague. It can be reached with ease—use Metro and travel to the station Náměstí Míru (line A, the same which leads to the workshop venue).

Accommodation tips

We can recommend following accommodation options for the participants of the workshop. All hotels are located nearby the workshop venue—see the map of hotels.

We have no contracts with the hotels below. Feel free to use booking.com or any other generic accommodation website to find a hotel suitable to your preferences.

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Last change: 17.10.2014