NEPHELE SIGNED
eNd to End scalable and dynamically reconfigurable oPtical arcHitecture for application-awarE SDN cLoud datacentErs
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Project "NEPHELE" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Greece [EL] |
| Project website | http://www.nepheleproject.eu |
| Total cost | 3˙053˙636 € |
| EC max contribution | 3˙053˙636 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.2.1.1.3. (Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services) |
| Code Call | H2020-ICT-2014-1 |
| Funding Scheme | RIA |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-02-01 to 2018-01-31 |
Partnership
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS | EL (ATHINA) | coordinator | 696˙250.00 |
| 2 | MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD - MLNX | IL (YOKNEAM) | participant | 557˙500.00 |
| 3 | GESELLSCHAFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE DATENVERARBEITUNG MBH GOTTINGEN | DE (GOTTINGEN) | participant | 465˙005.00 |
| 4 | SEAGATE SYSTEMS UK LIMITED | UK (HAVANT) | participant | 430˙381.00 |
| 5 | PANEPISTIMIO PATRON | EL (RIO PATRAS) | participant | 381˙250.00 |
| 6 | INTEROUTE S.P.A. | IT (Rome) | participant | 268˙250.00 |
| 7 | NEXTWORKS | IT (PISA) | participant | 255˙000.00 |
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Project objective
Datacentre traffic is experiencing 2-digit growth challenging the scalability of current network architectures. The new concept of disaggregation exacerbates bandwidth and latency demands whereas emerging cloud business opportunities urge for reliable inter-datacenter networking. PROJECT will develop an end-to-end solution extending from the datacenter architecture and optical subsystem design to the overlaying control plane and application interfaces. PROJECT hybrid electronic-optical network architecture scales linearly with the number of datacenter hosts, offers Ethernet granularity and saves up to 94% power and 30% cost. It consolidates compute and storage networks over a single, Ethernet optical TDMA network. Low latency, hardware-level dynamic re-configurability and quasi-deterministic QoS are supported in view of disaggregated datacenter deployment scenarios. A fully functional control plane overlay will be developed comprising an SDN controller along with its interfaces. The southbound interface abstracts physical layer infrastructure and allows dynamic hardware-level network reconfigurability. The northbound interface links the SDN controller with the application requirements through an Application Programming Interface. PROJECT innovative control plane enables Application Defined Networking and merges hardware and software virtualization over the hybrid optical infrastructure. It also integrates SDN modules and functions for inter-datacenter connectivity, enabling dynamic bandwidth allocation based on the needs of migrating VMs as well as on existing Service Level Agreements for transparent networking among telecom and datacenter operator’s domains. Fully-functional network subsystems will be prototyped: a 400Gb/s hybrid Top-of-Rack switch, a 50Gb/s electronic-optical smart Network Interface Card and a fast optical pod switch. PROJECT concept will be demonstrated in the lab and in its operational environment for both intra- and inter-datacenter scenario
Deliverables
| End-to-end NEPHELE connectivity demonstration validated in lab environment | Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes | 2019-03-11 10:29:30 |
| Website development and preparation of dissemination material | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-03-11 10:29:45 |
| NEPHELE inter- and intra-datacenter demonstration in operational environment | Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes | 2019-03-11 10:29:41 |
| NEPHELE video presentation | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-03-11 10:29:31 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of NEPHELE deliverables.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |
K. Yiannopoulos; K. Kontodimas; K. Christodoulopoulos; E. Varvarigos Resource partitioning in the NEPHELE datacentre interconnect published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1010220 |
International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2017) | 2019-05-30 |
| 2017 |
P. Kokkinos; I. Gravalos; A. Kretsis; E. Varvarigos Inter-Datacenter Virtual Capacity Services: Reality and Mechanisms published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1009863 |
Cloudnet 2017 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Nikos Iliadis, Giannis Kanakis, Nikolaos Argyris, Christos Spatharakis, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Hercules Avramopoulos, Silvia Spiga, Marcus-Christian Amann Optical PAM-4 Generation through Polarization Multiplexing in Single-Polarization Single-Mode VCSELs published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) | 2019-05-30 |
| 2017 |
Giada Landi, Marco Capitani, Domenico Gallico, Matteo Biancani; Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Muzzamil Aziz An Application-aware SDN Controller for Hybrid Optical-electrical DC Networks published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1005021 |
ICN 2017 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Stefanos Dris, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Nikolaos Argyris, Christos Spatharakis, Hercules Avramopoulos Scaling single-wavelength optical interconnects to 180 Gb/s with PAM-M and pulse shaping published pages: 977506, ISSN: , DOI: 10.1117/12.2208876 |
Next-Generation Optical Networks for Data Centers and Short-Reach Links III | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Stefanos Dris, Nikolaos Argyris, Christos Spatharakis, Hercules Avramopoulos 112 Gb/s sub-cycle 16-QAM Nyquist-SCM for intra-datacenter connectivity published pages: 97750A, ISSN: , DOI: 10.1117/12.2211639 |
Next-Generation Optical Networks for Data Centers and Short-Reach Links III | 2019-05-30 |
| 2017 |
K. Christodoulopoulos, K. Kontodimas, A. Siokis, K. Yiannopoulos, E. Varvarigos Efficient Bandwidth Allocation in the NEPHELE Optical/Electrical Datacenter Interconnect published pages: 1145, ISSN: 1943-0620, DOI: 10.1364/jocn.9.001145 |
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 9/12 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2017 |
P. Soumplis; P. Kokkinos; E. A. Varvarigos Optimally-driven Online Reservations in Elastic Optical Networks published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1010012 |
ECOC 2017 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Elad Mentovich Photonics In Datacenters; towards 400Gb/s published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-30 | |
| 2016 |
Paraskevas Bakopoulos Optical switching for scalable and programmable data center networks published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
4th Optical Interconnect in Data Centers EU-Symposium | 2019-05-30 |
| 2015 |
Ciulli, Nicola NEPHELE project presentation published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.32877 |
1 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2015 |
Pitwon, Richard Photonic Interconnect Technologies for Data Centre Environments published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.33067 |
1 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Christos Spatharakis, Giannis Kanakis, Nikolaos Iliadis, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Hercules Avramopoulos, Konstantinos Maragos, George Lentaris, Dimitrios Soudris A 56 Gbaud Reconfigurable FPGA Feed-Forward Equalizer for Optical Datacenter Networks with flexible Baudrate- and Modulation-Format published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) | 2019-05-30 |
| 2015 |
Zahavi Eitan The Green Data Center published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.32795 |
1 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2015 |
Bakopoulos Paraskevas Optical switching in datacenter networks: Why and how? published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.32747 |
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on 1 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Ioannis Patronas, Angelos Kyriakos, Dionysios Reisis Switching Functions of a Data Center Top-of-Rack(ToR) published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) | 2019-05-30 |
| 2016 |
Muzzamil Aziz, Amirreza FazelyH, Giada Landi, Domenico Gallico, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Philipp Wieder SDN-Enabled Application-Aware Networking for Datacenter Networks published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) | 2019-05-30 |
| 2018 |
Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Giada Landi, Muzzamil Aziz, Eitan Zahavi, Domenico Gallico, Richard Pitwon, Konstantinos Tokas, Ioannis Patronas, Marco Capitani, Christos Spatharakis, Konstantinos Yiannopoulos, Kai Wang, Konstantinos Kontodimas, Ioannis Lazarou, Philipp Wieder, Dionysios I. Reisis, Emmanouel Manos Varvarigos, Matteo Biancani, Hercules Avramopoulos NEPHELE: An End-to-End Scalable and Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Architecture for Application-Aware SDN Cloud Data Centers published pages: 178-188, ISSN: 0163-6804, DOI: 10.1109/mcom.2018.1600804 |
IEEE Communications Magazine 56/2 | 2019-05-30 |
| 2018 |
Paraskevas Bakopoulos; Konstantinos Tokas; Christos Spatharakis; Ioannis Patronas; Giada Landi; Kostas Christodoulopoulos; Marco Capitani; Angelos Kyriakos; Muzzamil Aziz; Dionysis Reisis; Emmanuel Varvarigos; Eitan Zahavi; Hercules Avramopoulos Optical datacenter network employing slotted (TDMA) operation for dynamic resource allocation published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1208054 |
2019-05-30 | |
| 2016 |
K. Christodoulpoulos, K. Kontodimas, A. Siokis, K. Yiannopoulos, E. Varvarigos Collisions Free Scheduling in the NEPHELE Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Interconnect published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
23rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) | 2019-05-30 |
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