ACTS: OPEN

Full Name: Optical Pan-European Network

Duration: 1/9/95-31/8/98 (Finished)

Partners:

• Alcatel Alsthom Recherche (France)
• CNET (France)
• University of Essex (U.K.)
• Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
• Alcatel CIT (France)
• Alcatel SEL (Germany)
• Alcatel Telecom Norway A.S. (Norway)
• Belgacom S.A. (Belgium)
• CSELT (Italy)
• ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
• Tele Denmark Research (Denmark)
• Telenor Research (Norway
• SINTEF DELAB (Norway)

Objective:

• To study an optical Pan-European overlay network making use of WDM links and optical cross connects

INTEC's Role:

• Design and evaluation of WDM optical transport network. Analysis of the physical limitations imposed by crosstalk, noise and signal distortion.

Project Web site: http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/Research/Projects/horizon/projects/open/open.html