ADVA Optical Networking Plays Key Role in COMBO Project to Create Fixed-Mobile Convergence

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Showcase Successfully Demonstrates Access Technology Essential to 5G

Munich, Germany. September 22, 2016. ADVA Optical Networking announced today that it is playing a key role in the Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Broadband Access/Aggregation Networks (COMBO) project. The initiative, funded by the European Commission, is developing pioneering technology vital to the success of 5G. 16 partner organizations, including operators, equipment suppliers and research centers, are collaborating on COMBO to create new approaches that will enable full architectural convergence of fixed and mobile networks. The project also focuses on integrating network functionality to enhance security, simplicity and user experience. The COMBO consortium's main outcomes and proofs of concept were successfully demonstrated at a recent showcase in Lannion, France.

"The COMBO project represents a significant achievement for Europe and for the telecommunications industry. By working closely with the partner organizations, we have been able to take a concrete step towards solving some key challenges of 5G and shaping the infrastructure of tomorrow," said Christian Gacon, VP, wireline and transport convergent networks, Orange. "The outcomes of the COMBO project will redesign fixed and mobile networks towards more integration like shared transport infrastructures. This will allow improvements to performance and energy efficiency that we are targeting for 5G and the internet of things."

The new network architecture designed by the COMBO project is based on the concept of next-generation point-of-presence (NG-PoP), which enables network components to be hosted centrally or at the edge for optimum efficiency. In this open and intelligent environment, fixed and mobile infrastructures are physically integrated in converged broadband access/aggregation networks. The technology was presented in a public showcase that followed two and a half years of close collaboration and seven weeks of experiments at the Pôle Images & Réseaux in Lannion, France. Key transport and functional enablers of 5G networking were successfully demonstrated as well as distributed and centralized NG-POP scenarios. Video footage of the showcase is now available so that the wider industry can benefit from the COMBO project's vision for integrated fixed-mobile networks.