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As the traffic in the global optical communication networks becomes more dynamic, the fiber optic networks at various scales, ranging from intra-data center networks to meshed long-haul networks to transoceanic submarine networks, also need to be more flexible and resilient so that the lightpaths can be set up or modified more quickly, bandwidth provisioning can be more optimized, and the network can be better protected from environmental or human-induced disasters.
Our research focus in this area includes automatic lightpath provisioning, AI-assisted QoT estimation and prediction, margin-optimized network planning, vendor-agnostic network control and management, intent-based resource assignment, and efficient edge/cloud computing job assignment.
The NEC Labs America team Yaowen Li, Andrea D’Amico, Yue-Kai Huang, Philip Ji, Giacomo Borraccini, Ming-Fang Huang, Ezra Ip, Ting Wang & Yue Tian (Not pictured: Fatih Yaman) has arrived in San Diego, CA for OFC24! Our team will be speaking and presenting throughout the event. Read more for an overview
Moore’s law is dead, as we have squeezed all the innovation out of silicon. Fiber optics is the solution to meet the computing needs of tomorrow. Today, we can already use the light traveling inside fiber optic cables as sensors that measure vibrations, sound, temperature, light, and pressure changes.
NEC Corporation has deployed an AI-based traffic monitoring system to Central Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO CENTRAL). The system uses fiber-optic sensing and AI technologies to visualize traffic conditions, such as the location, speed, and direction of travel, from vibrations produced by vehicle
