STRONGEST participated in the Converged and Optical Networks (CaON) cluster workshop held in Stockholm, 6- 8 October 2010, organized by the Cluster coordinator M. Popov. The workshop represented an informal discussion in preparation for the CaON official cluster meeting, to be held in Brussels on 20 October, 2010. STRONGEST also had the opportunity to present its objectives and preliminary results to the Photonics (area Communication Networks) Concertation meeting 2010.