STRONGEST (“Scalable, Tunable and Resilient Optical Networks Guaranteeing Extremely-high Speed Transport”) is an Integrated Project that was approved within the fourth Call of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (Theme 2009.1.1 “The Network of the Future”) and started its activity on January 1st, 2010. The consortium brings together 17 partners, chosen among major European industrial players, leading Telecom operators, Universities and Research Centres.

The present text describes in a plain way the rationale standing behind the Project, evidencing the limitations of existing transport networks (scalability, power consumption, quality of service, cost), delineating the expected evolutionary scenarios for the next ten years and presenting the proposed network solutions that will be investigated in details and demonstrated during the Project lifetime.

Before its fifth plenary meeting in Pisa, STRONGEST organized, on October 18th, 2011, a workshop dedicated to "Green Telecommunications", inviting other related projects (EARTH, ECONET, GEYSERS, OASI, TREND, and Akari) to share the views that these projects are elaborating about the key topics of energy savings in telecommunications networks.  

• Workshop fil rouge – A. Di Giglio, Telecom Italia, STRONGEST coordinator
• The green standardization in Europe – P. Gemma, Huawei, vice chairman ETSI EE
• The energy efficiency in the core network
  
  • Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Network for Efficient Network–H. Furukawa, Akari, JAPAN
  • Fixed Network Energy Efficiency Optimization Through Dynamic Power management: the ECONET project approach‐ R. Bolla, Full Professor university of Genova
  • STRONGEST enhancement in power consumption savings – A. Di Giglio
  • GEYSERS: an insight on Network Control Plane evolutions and infrastructure virtualization – N. Ciulli, Nextworks
  • Analysis of the Energy Efficiency in IP over WDM Networks with Load‐Adaptive Operation –M. Gunkel, DT 
    
  • STRONGEST energy model ‐ W. Van Heddeghem, IBBT Ghent
• The energy efficiency in the fixed access network
  
  • Energy Efficiency in Next‐Generation Optical Access Networks: Preliminary Results from the OASE Project – M. Parker, University of Essex
  • Improving Energy Efficiency in Optical Access Networks ‐ L. Valcarenghi, ScuolaSant’Anna
  • Optical Metro Access for Energy‐Efficient Networks – A. D'Errico, ERICSSON
• Green mobile networks
  
  • EARTH ‐ Overview and Status ‐ M. Ollson, ERICSSON Research
  • Ghost Femto Cells– E. Calvanese Strinati, CEA/LETI
  • Reducing energy consumption in cellular access networks – A. Bianco, Politecnico di Torino