CESNET held the 9th Customer Empowered Fibre Networks Workshop in Prague from September 11th to 12th. Major topics for this year event were:
- Multi-vendor/disaggregated lighting of CEF networks, interoperability and vendor-independent description of transmission systems
- Support of new applications and disciplines requiring photonic or dark fibre connectivity (cryptography, metrology, seismology, space, observation, sensor networks, etc.)
- End to end services for high precision and high performance applications, real-time applications of wide-area all-optical networks
- Photonic (all-optical) services, dark fibre channels, alien waves, fibre sharing, optimal or dynamic usage of transmission spectrum and virtual fibre networks
- SDN Approach for Systematic Service Design Methods including Lower Layers of the Networking Stack
- Dark fibre or channel testbeds used for experiments and additional production traffic
- Deployments and testing of high-speed transmission systems, power consumption of transmission systems(greening)
- Update of dark fibre footprint used for Research and Education
- Community (campuses, regional, national or continental) and experimental facilities (testbeds)
- Development of dark fibre footprint used for Research and Education
- Community (REC) in Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Europe
- Improvement of long term REC economy