Hiroaki HARAI

Group Leader, Network Architecture Group, New Generation Network Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan

In this talk, the speaker will address on-going activities of the AKARI Architecture Design Project, where the new generation network is designed to support future information society. This project is a five-year project and will produce a blueprint of the new generation network in 2011. The speaker will present design principles and enabling technologies under the design principles. Then, the speaker will also present optical grid over wavelength switched optical network for providing parallel computing users multiple end-to-end lightpaths on demand basis simultaneously. He will show the overview of this system and experimental results using a real testbed over JGN2plus optical fibers in the Tokyo metropolitan area.