Morten Kofoed Esbjørn v– Jan 20 2023 — The OCTAPUS initiative is an EU funded venture, which began in September 2022 and is funded till February 2026. OCTAPUS stands for “Optical Circuit switched Time-Delicate Community (TSN) structure for highspeed Passive optical networks and subsequent era Extremely-dynamic & reconfigurable central workplace environments”, and the purpose is to ship an agile, low-cost and vitality environment friendly Photonic Built-in Circuit (PIC) expertise framework.
OCTAPUS was funded in responds to the rising world demand for mounted and cellular bandwidth capability that has risen massively within the final years. This rise is due an growing recognition of Over-The-Prime (OTT) video streaming providers and the rise of Machine-to-Machine communications. It’s predicted that Machine-to-Machine communication will account for roughly 50% of all world linked gadgets by subsequent 12 months.
As a result of rising 5G and industrial web purposes pose strict latency-oriented framework, this severely challenges the 5G infrastructure, and a brand new architectural change to the infrastructure is critical. Because of this OCTAPUS will re-architect the Subsequent Technology Central Workplace (NGCO) ecosystem, transparently upgrading its capability, by way of an revolutionary dynamic reconfigurable optically-switched backplane and novel photonic transceiver toolkit.
Comcores will actively contribute to the venture with our experience inside ethernet TSN expertise and 5G, particularly our data {of electrical} switching and TSN options. We’ll present a switching material and a community interface card with TSN capabilities on FPGA based mostly platforms and a community controller. That is performed to attain dynamic TSN configuration by way of a centralized community controller to help load balancing, whereas nonetheless sustaining High quality of Service (QoS) by way of TSN.
For extra details about the OCTAPUS venture, go to the OCTAPUS web site and factsheet.
