SUNSET: Sustainable network infrastructure enabling the future Digital Society
José Antonio Lázaro, Salvatore Spadaro, Jordi Perelló, Joan M. Gené, Jose Antonio Altabas, Albert Pagès, Davide Careglio, Pere Barlet‐Ros, Albert Cabellos‐Aparicio, Josep Solé‐Pareta · 2016
The ICT eco-system is constantly growing in traffic demands, with emerging cloud services, mobile and social network technologies to be integrated in 5G networks. New architectural changes at the underlying networks are required to support the traffic volume growth, while providing a high level of dynamic connectivity so that applications are constantly provisioned, released, and moved around. SUNSET project focuses on overcoming the existing bottlenecks of current solutions to provide a successful support of the future Digital Society, paving the way to new-coming cloud ICT services. SUNSET network infrastructure proposes a novel architecture including all network segments (access, metro and core) and data centre network, empowered by advanced optical technologies and SDN, capable of sustaining the growing resource and operational demands of next 5G generation networks.