Periodic Reporting for period 2 - PASSION (Photonic technologies for progrAmmable transmission and switching modular systems based on Scalable Spectrum/space aggregation for future agIle high capacity metrO Networks)

In the last decade we assisted to a continuous growth of the metro network (MAN), now facing a bottleneck in the transmission and routing of the huge amount of data due to the increase of the number of users, the content size, and to the convergence with mobile and datacom...