La ricerca in Alcatel-Lucent Italia e le sfide del futuro

La ricerca in Alcatel-Lucent Italia
e le sfide del futuro
Carlo Spinelli – Optics CTO
GTTI - Firenze - 18 Giugno 2008
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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent, started in 2006, is the merge of Alcatel e Lucent Technologies,
that includes Bell Laboratories
Worldwide leader in product, networks and services for fixed & mobile
communications, convergent networks and IP technologies.
Direct presence in 130 Countries with 77.000 employees.
Revenue for 17,8 billion Euro in 2007
#1 in Broadband Access with 44% WW DSL market share
#1 in Optical Networks (terrestrial and submarine) with 23,5% WW market
share
R&D: 2,7 billion invested in 2007; 25.000 active patents; 6 Nobel Laureates
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Alcatel-Lucent Italia Optics leadership
Optics is Worldwide Business Division of Alcatel-Lucent, with R&D and products for
both Optical Networking and Wireless transmission
Alcatel-Lucent Optics is #1 in worldwide optical networking market share for seven
consecutive years
1,000 Customers in 150 Countries
ISRAEL
UK
ROMANIA
Greenwich
Timisoara
Tel Aviv
FRANCE
CHINA
Paris area
Shanghai, Chengdhu
ITALY
NORTH AMERICA
Murray Hill (NJ),
Westford (MA), Plano
(TX), Ottawa (Canada)
Vimercate,
Genova, Trieste,
Rieti, Battipaglia,
Bari
GERMANY
Stuttgart,
Nuremberg
INDIA
Bangalore
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Optics Head Quarters
are in Italy (Vimercate
(Vimercate))
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R&D in Alcatel-Lucent Italia: Where we are and how many
~800 R&D employees
VIMERCATE
GENOVA
RIETI
BARI
BATTIPAGLIA
(~ 31% of total ALU Italy accounts)
Optics - 78%
Wireless Transmission - 18%
Applications - 4%
5 R&D SITES IN ITALY
• Investments in R&D in Italy are steadily grown over last three years
• Optics and Wireless Transmission R&D investments are constantly higher than in
low cost countries
Optics R&D presence in Italy has solid history and positive trends
trends
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Main partnerships & relations with University & Research Centres
Corporate Research Partnership di ALU.
R&D collaborations for Optics products, Stages e Masters, EU
&National projects participation
Stages and Masters, R&D collaborations for Optics products
Master
Master and Seminars
Student Stages and seminars, EU projects participation, WiMAX
standardization
EU and National projects, Seminars
Unisannio, FedII Napoli, Univ. Salerno, Univ Parthenope - EU and National projects,
consultancy & projects for TMN.
Stages, R&D collaboration (Elasis)
Seminars, technology scouting about local digital divide
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Product Innovation done in Italy
1641SM
1660SM
1678MCC
1991
1998
2002
1a Gen.
<1 Gbps
SDH
2a Gen.
15/60 Gbps
SDH
ATM&ETH@SDH
1850TSS
2005
3a Gen.
4a Gen.
640G
320G
SDH
SDH
ATM&ETH@SDH
Eth
MPLS-Transport
2007
1.2T
TLC markets is accelerating evolutions and requires a strong innovation
capacity (product architecture, technology, throughput)
Product life cycle is decreasing faster & faster:
To sustain competitiveness in benefit/costs
To maintain technology leadership in front of competition
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Innovations – International acknowledgements
More than 70 registered patents in last 4 years
Prestigious internal and external acknowledgments and
awards. For example:
Last family product 1850 TSS has been acknowledge best
product in last two years. It received also Bell Labs Award in
2007
Ethernet/MPLS
Universal
Switching
TDM
1 purpose-built
convergence platform
WDM
3 separate platforms
Alberto Lometti of Alcatel-Lucent Italy has become “Bell
Labs Fellow this year. Iit is the highest honour assigned by
Bell Labs for individual contribution for TLC technology
innovation
Innovation in ALU Italy has international acknowledgments
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R&D ALU Italy– an history of innovations
Innovation in functionality:
System innovation (P2P Multiplexers to high capacity XC, from single technology
SDH to Multi Service Node (SDH, ATM, Ethernet, WDM integrated)
Electronic Integration (ASIC, FPGA)
Standard drivers to move SDH intrinsic high QoS, OAM & Protection to packet (TMPLS leader in ITU now migrating to IETF with relevant editorship in MPLS-TP
Innovation in Technology:
Optical Technologies:
– from 155Mbps to 40Gbps (new electronic technologies and materials
(GaAs, SiGe,InP,) .. and 100Gbps is on the way
– New modulation formats (from NRZ to multi-level signals, phase
modulation, adaptive modulation)
– From SDH to Ethernet
– Optical fibre spectrum utilization (WDM system from 200GHz grid to
50GHz80@40Gbps is a reasonable target), from C-band to L-band
– Enhanced FECs (various patents registered)
– Reconfigurable Optics (tuneable lasers, ROADM..)
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R&D ALU Italy an history of innovations
Innovation in Technology:
Digital electronics:
– Synchronous streams (PDH, SDH, OTN) and Asynchronous stream (Ethernet)
heterogeneous signal wrapping (SDH, OTN, Ethernet),
– Complex ASICs and FPGA (for FEC, Bit Error rate monitoring, fault management,
channels switching)
– Packet management (x10 complexity vs synchronous CBR streams)
– Reduce footprint & increase performances (new devices with 90 & 65nm CMOS
technology)
– Solutions for very high power consumption & dissipation (new material to reduce
thermal resistance, heat pipes, Ball Grid Array
– New power distribution architecture & devices
Backplane design:
– Connector evolutions: From simple Ohmic interconnection to complex shielded pairs
– I/O buffers evolved from pure current sources to sophisticated analogue and digital
processing elements (tuneable Pre-emphasis and equalization, mullti-level signals
– From 38Mbps in late ’80’s to 3Gbps per connection (and 6Gbps is coming), up to
80/160Gbps per slot
– The new challenge: optical backplanes with low cost/high performance optics.
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R&D ALU Italy an history of innovations
Innovation in System Architecture
No single point of failure (power supply, line cards, synchronization, control) in 1+1 or N+1
protection
From distributed to centralized fabric
Very high Power supply architectures (up to 10KW per rack, 3.5W per shelf, 160W per slot)
Products family sharing same boards and software in different node capacity (from 40G to 640G
… and 3.4 Tera in next future)
Innovation to reduce costs
Multi-technology&cost effective equipments (WDM switching, packet switching, TDM switching
combined and flexible provisioned)
Reduce the number of boards and product family concept to reduce inventory costs
NM for Element and Network Layer management to save Opex
The new challenge:
– Photonic Integrated Circuits for cost-effective, high port density and higher capacity
optical communications systems
– “green” equipment that a the end of their life can be ecologically dismissed and without
hazardous substances
– Lower power consumption (back to “old days” 300W per shelf without forced cooling)
To know more innovation in Optics, ref to Special Issue of USA Magazine
“Fiber and Integrated Optics”
Optics” on Optical Communications in Italy
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TLC Challenges
Market drives for steadily cost per bit drop:
new optical components and equipment architecture are key for Operator sustainable
investments
Very high Broadband Access (>100Mbps) requires new generation Optical equipments:
key technology innovations to reduce foot-print, provide scalable solutions, Photopic &
Electronic Integration, lower power consumptions
Flexible&low cost Optical components (e.g. PIC’s) & Carrier Class packet (MPLS-TP) integration
with multi-vendor Network Management integration
Core network requires x10 performances:
new 100G line rates with LH non-regenerated span (>1000Km), low cost optical
backplanes
Keep National Optics attractiveness:
Optical innovation requires investment synergies beyond single company. National
photopic coordination of Research Centers, Universities, Component vendor and
System Vendor is a must for National competitiveness in TLC. PHORIT initiative is a
good example to coordinate R&D (e.g. for new materials, common foundries, reduced
overlapping in basic research) and motivate public/private investments
TLC public investments and financial support (e-g. “Decreto MiSE” and “Industria
2015”-including ICT- are good signals to maintain the competitiveness levels as in
others countries (e.g., Korea, Japan, Germany, France) where ICT is a primary
country target
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