Coriant wins Award for Contributions to EU Safe Routing Project
Celtic-Plus award follows successful demonstration of multi-terabit transmission across a 762km link in the Orange optical transport network
Optical networking firm Coriant has been awarded this year's Celtic-Plus Innovation Award for its contributions to the Safe and Secure European Routing (SASER) project. Coriant was recognised for demonstrated achievements and its successful role as head of workgroup 3 'Safe and Secure Networks by Reliable Transport Technology' in the SASER-SIEGFRIED sub-project.
The goal of the SASER research program was to provide the scientific, technical, and technological concepts and solutions for secure, reliable, and scalable transport networks at sustainable costs and energy. This Celtic-Plus Innovation Award follows collaboration between Coriant and Orange and the successful demonstration of record-setting multi-terabit transmission across a 762km link in the Orange optical transport network, a field trial conducted in cooperation with the Celtic-Plus SASER project.
Celtic-Plus is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding, common R&D projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services.
"Celtic-Plus has been an important force in the European industry by stimulating innovation and tackling tough network challenges, including demand for greater efficiencies at the transport layer," said Uwe Fischer, executive VP of R&D/PLM, and CTO, Coriant. "We were pleased to support the Celtic-Plus SASER project and to collaborate with industry leaders like Orange to help advance the state of transport network architectures and technologies."
Coriant has contributed 55 technical publications as part of its leadership role in the Celtic-Plus SASER project, and the knowledge garnered and technology achievements demonstrated through the course of the project have been incorporated into Coriant's CloudWave Optics, the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform, and the Coriant hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform.
The work of Coriant within the project was partially funded by the Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (German Federal Ministry for Education and Research).