METRO-HAUL

METRO-HAUL involves the design and development of a novel, spectrally efficient and adaptive network solution, using dynamic elastic optical networking, including both transparent and flexible optical switching and adaptive transmission. METRO-HAUL will address the granularity mismatch between the wireless access and the optical metro domain via a new edge node design (Figure 1), and achieved through dynamic optical bandwidth allocation. This will provide metro support for increased volume of services with reduced cost and energy consumption.