The main goal of PASSION project is the development of application driven photonic technologies supporting an innovative transceiver and node featuring different levels of aggregation (in spectrum, polarization and space) for an envisaged network architecture able to match the growing traffic demand in metro connections.
The proposed approach is capable to establish high capacity connection for metro network distances (a few hundreds of km) with high-throughput, low-cost, energy-efficient, reduced-footprint devices for massive deployment. End-to-end metro transport for novel services and business is achieved with dynamic SDN control of the different systems and subsystems to ensure metro connectivity and deployment of services.