Photonics in Switching 2006

Call for Papers for International Conference
16-18 October 2006, Herakleion (Crete), Greece*
http://www.ps2006.gr
Deadline for paper submission: 16 June 2006

Summary

Today, the demand for both established and new services keeps growing whilst recent developments worldwide and in particular in Eastern Asia, Northern America and Europe manifest that there are coordinated efforts to unlock the bandwidth bottleneck in the access part. These developments in the access network will impose formidable tasks in the backbone: the network will become dynamic whilst the nodes should be service transparent, even agnostic, and capable of crossconnecting tens of Tb/s traffic maintaining some level of QoS and other end-to-end performance guarantees. In this context, the optimum blend of optical and electronic technologies is sought for constructing cost-effective high capacity switching nodes taking into account a variety of performance constraints.

Photonics in Switching (PS) is a historic conference on optical switching created at the end of the 1980’s. Mixing an active academic community with manufacturers and operators it is aiming to address these issues and to pave the way towards next generation networks.

Structure of the conference

- Plenary session addressing key advances in optical components, systems and networking
- One strategic session (European Commission representatives)
- Workshops on key topics
- Several technical sessions
- One poster session

Topics

- Optical cross-connects and packet switches: architectures, demonstrators and products
- Optical switching in transparent networks: concepts and testbeds
- Optical packet/burst switching networks: concepts and demonstrators for the metro and the backbone
- Electro-Optic and other opto-electronic systems: solutions for multi-Terabit class routers
- Modeling and performance of switched networks
- Benchmarking and cost analysis
- Management, monitoring and protection of switched networks
- Control for OPS/OBS networks
- Low cost components for switching applications
- Advanced components for switching applications
- Optical processing: wavelength conversion, regeneration, optical decoding, synchronisation, label swapping
- Novel network scenarios and applications that incorporate optical switching systems

Workshops

- Optical Packet Switching in Metropolitan Networks: opportunities and solutions
- The next stage in network evolution: migration towards dynamic lightpath routing (control plane issues, network performance considerations, enabling technology, converging of L1 and L2)
- Photonic Switching v. Photonics in Switching: Finding the balance between optical and electronic technologies
- Distilling large scale optical networking research activity worldwide (EU-US-EA)