Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou has given an invited talk entitled “Enabling Highly Programmable Optical Data Centres” at the Workshop on “Do Small, Large, And Mega Data Centers Need Advanced Photonics Technology?”, co-located with OFC 2015, Los Angeles (US), March 23, 2015.

Giacomo Bernini presented “LIGHTNESS – An SDN-enabled hybrid optical packet/circuit switched data centre network”, PACE Workshop on New Uses of Path Computation Elements, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, June 16, 2014.

Nicola Ciulli presented “SDN principles applied to datacentres and metro-core networks: Towards a network operating system”, SDN&OpenFlow World Congress, SDN INNOVATION FORUM, Bad Homburg, Germany, October 18, 2013,

Salvatore Spadaro, presented “Opportunities for Photonic Packet/Circuit Switching in Large Scale Data Centers“, at the Symposium on Next Generation data centres – Paving the way for the Zettabyte Era, European Conference on Optical Conference (ECOC) 2013, London, UK, September 24, 2013.

To sustain and develop a vibrant research community, the European Commission facilitates cooperation between projects, organises and supports regular events to keep a constant interaction with its stakeholders, in particular EU projects of the three clusters: Future Internet Architectures and Network Management Technologies – FI Cluster, Radio Access and Spectrum – RAS Cluster and Converged and Optical Networks – CaON Cluster.

LIGHTNESS presents the project at the Future Networks 10th FP7 Concertation Meeting, held in Brussels, on 10-11 October 2012.

Salvatore Spadaro presented “Optical networking for High Performance Computing” at the Photonics in Data Centers and Computing Symposium, Photonics in Switching (PS) 2012 Conference, Ajaccio, France, September 12, 2012.