Title | Connected OFCity: Technology Innovations for a Smart City Project |
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ID_Doc | 40261 |
Authors | Tucker, R; Ruffini, M; Valcarenghi, L; Campelo, DR; Simeonidou, D; Du, L; Marinescu, MC; Middleton, C; Yin, S; Forde, T; Bourg, K; Dai, E; Harstead, E; Chanclou, P; Roberts, H; Jungnickel, V; Figuerola, S; Takahara, T; Yadav, R; Vetter, P; Khotimsky, DA; Wey, JS |
Title | Connected OFCity: Technology Innovations for a Smart City Project |
Year | 2017 |
Published | Journal Of Optical Communications And Networking, 9, 2 |
Abstract | Around the world, municipalities have been making substantial investments into broadband access infrastructure to accelerate the build-out of an urban phenomenon that has become known as a smart or connected city. At the 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference, a team contest, the Connected OFCity Challenge, was held to discuss the technological innovations and to examine dependencies and intricacies of a connected city project. The participants, four teams of experts coming from a cross-section of the industry, presented and defended their visions of future applications and innovative architecture and technologies to realize the interconnection. This paper provides a synthesis of the four competitive proposals offered for the contest and their ensuing discussions. |