About
MAINS project will design, develop and implement a novel metro architecture supporting subwavelength granularity. It addresses requirements of Network of the Future at metro level by proposing a novel solution leveraging combination of ring and mesh sub-wavelength switched metro network technologies, fully controlled by an advanced control plane. It will develop an extended GMPLS control plane capable of controlling and provisioning end-to-end connectivity in a subwavelength switched metro network. The MAINS solution will also propose a novel service to network interface to enable direct access to network services at sub-wavelength granularity directly from the application layer. Furthermore, the MAINS project will evaluate its outcome in hybrid mesh-ring testbed that features innovative sub-wavelength switching nodes from University of Essex and Intune.
Finally, MAINS will perform a field trial involving real users in Cyprus, which will demonstrate a virtual PC application over sub-wavelength switching network as a proof-of-concept. MAINS outcome will allow efficient deployment of distributed application servers in a metro network, by means of a novel service to network interface and an extended GMPLS control plane. As a result, both CAPEX and OPEX are reduced, while enhanced capabilities for service deployment are achieved.
MAINS is involved in the CAON cluster about that groups the running FP6 & FP7-projects in the field of Converged Networks and Optical networks.