Southampton goes on Safari to develop new high speed network technology
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In a move aimed at developing new technologies that will support high speed networks in densely populated areas, the University of Southampton is to join the European and Japanese backed Safari project.
Safari is one of four research projects receiving €12million from the EU and Japan. In all, there will be more than 40 academic and industry partners.
Safari – short for Scalable And Flexible optical Architecture for Reconfigurable Infrastructure – is being funded with €1.5m from the Horizon 2020 programme. The work will bring together researchers from Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), Coriant and the Technical University of Denmark, as well as NTT and Fujikura.
ORC deputy director Professor David Richardson said: "We are delighted to be engaged in the exciting and ambitious project which brings together leading European and Japanese research groups to address some of the key emerging challenges and opportunities facing our increasingly information-centric global society."
In particular, Safari will look to build high speed networks capable of supporting at least 400Gbit/s per channel. These will combine multicore optical fibres with space division multiplexing to produce scalable and flexible optical transport networks.
