SARDANA project news blog

SARDANA project endorses ICTON 2009

2009-05-21T17:59:00.003+02:00

SARDANA project endorses the 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009) to be held in Island of São Miguel, Azores (Portugal), 28 June - 2 July 2009. The scope of the Conference is concentrated on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in broadband telecommunication networks, systems, and components.

A joint BONE-SARDANA workshop on next generation FTTH PONs and converged access/metro networks will take place during the conference. That workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:

WDM-PONs
Optically amplified extended PONs
Technologies for advanced ONUs
Static versus reconfigurable PONs
QoS and DBA in TDM-PONs, WDM-PONs, OCDMA-PONs and OFDMA-PONs
Techno-economic and service models
Metro-access convergence

For more information, please take a look at the ICTON's website or download the full program.

ConTEL 2009 Special Session endorsed by SARDANA

2009-05-21T16:49:00.003+02:00

SARDANA project endorses the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL), to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, 8 June - 10 June 2009. A special session on optical access is being coorganized with BONE project. For more information please check the ConTEL website or take a look at its program.

Regarding Sardana dance...

2009-03-11T06:54:00.000+01:00

The name SARDANA refers to a popular Catalan dance, where people conform a ring united by their raised arms. Oldest records about Sardana are from year 1552. However, its origins are not so clear:

Version 1: astronomical dance:

24 compass times (like the hours of the day),
The sound of a instrument called “flabiol” at the beginning is like the song of a rooster (cock) indicating the beginning of the day,
Short steps (calm and slow) are referred to the first hours of the day (there are 8 of them)
Long steps (with the maximum jumping) mean the middle of the day (16 of them)

Version 2: from Greece: because of the sweet, soft movements

Empuries (Greek colony)
War against Turkey in Greece (Middle Age)

Version 3: from the origin of the name

Sardenya island (Italy)
or Cerdanya (Catalonia Nord-France)

ONDM 2009

2009-02-17T07:50:00.000+01:00

SARDANA project sponsors the 13th conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM 2009), one of the largest conferences focused on cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in optical networking and newly emerging areas.

The SARDANA blog has been started!

2008-12-10T17:43:00.000+01:00

Hello world!

Welcome to the SARDANA blog. It is intended to be a debate forum of hot topics related to the next generation acces networks and SARDANA project. Please, do not hesitate to leave your comments!