Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Fiber Optic Network Architecture Analysis, Modeling, Optimization and Demonstration for Aerospace Platforms Navy STTR FY2005 Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2005 Topic No.: N05-T009 Topic Title: Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Fiber Optic Network Architecture Analysis, Modeling, Optimization and Demonstration for Aerospace Platforms Proposal No.: N054-009-0118 Firm: OptoNet 828 Davis Street, Suite 206 Evanston, Illinois 60201-4420 Contact: Jing Ma Phone: (847) 425-7585 Web Site: www.optonetinc.com Abstract: The proposed project will undertake the research, design, and development of key concepts, tools, and technologies for local-area optical networking, based on wave-division multiplexing, specifically targeted towards existing and emerging requirements for communication networks in advanced aerospace platforms. This project is proposed by a strong multidisciplinary team of industry and academic researchers, including subsystem and device experts from OptoNet Inc. and networking and systems experts from the University of Florida. In the first phase of this project (the focus of this proposal), the emphasis will be on the identification and integration of disparate requirements, the development and analysis of computer-based simulation models for candidate topologies and control methodologies, the determination of key metrics of performance, scalability, dependability, power, etc., and optionally the modeling and mapping of one or more legacy and emerging network protocols into the simulation environment. The results from this phase will lay the foundation for follow-on phases where candidate system and subsystem architectures will be developed and evaluated via advanced techniques in rapid virtual prototyping, network node requirements will be determined, and node and small-scale network prototypes will be constructed to demonstrate efficacy and properties of the approach in meeting the needs of advanced Navy aerospace systems. Benefits: The impact of high-performance networking continues to grow for an ever-expanding breadth of application areas in the military, commercial, and consumer markets. The technologies developed in this project will closely relate to these market trends and have the potential for application not only in aerospace platform networking but many others. The simulation tools and model library components developed in Phase 1 of this project have significant potential for commercialization in supporting designers of high-performance networking systems. The higher-layer tools developed at Florida and the lower-layer tools developed at OptoNet, both significantly extended by this project, are amenable to many potential applications where WDM optical networking offers clear performance, scalability, dependability, and other benefits. In the follow-on two phases of this project (i.e. Phases 2 and 3), which are briefly outlined in this proposal, a number of additional technologies will be developed that are also very likely to hold significant merit for commercialization. It is anticipated that the architectures, control strategies, component designs, etc. developed in these phases will be suitable for strong potential use in numerous areas of the private sector. In addition, there exist a number of other areas of importance to the federal government (e.g. DOD) where the embedded WDM optical networking technologies like those developed in this project could support key applications, such advanced space systems, in-situ sonar processing systems, high-performance embedded computing backbones, etc. Return