- European Commission funds the new project with Euro 3 million

WDM PON is a Next Generation PON technology which will enable next generation of high bandwidth services including High Definition TV, Video on Demand and data access above 100 Mbps. The development work has now been started, aiming towards a technology validation early 2011.

The GigaWaM project has been granted funding from the European Commission of Euro 3 million, to develop low cost component and subsystems for WDM PON.

The objective is to develop application specific optical components of a WDM-PON broadband access network, targeting a system cost per subscriber below today’s implementation of GPON by develop innovative new low cost components with high level of integration in addition to new manufacturing processes.

The partnership is coordinated by Nor-Tek and consists of 9 further partners, each contributing unique expertise within their own area:

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

ERICSSON AB

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V

FICONTEC GMBH

IGNIS PHOTONYX A/S

IGNIS PHOTONYX INC

VERTILAS GMBH

SVEDICE AB

SYNTUNE AB

The project was initiated by Ignis Photonyx and will be technically chaired by Ignis Photonyx A/S in Birkeröd, Denmark.

See also www.gigawam.com for more details and contact information and http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_08_08_en.html

About Nor-Tek Teknologisenter and contact information

Nor-Tek Teknologisenter is based in Oslo and is part of a not for profit, pan-European network of 15 research institutes and knowledge transfer centres.  Each has a specific field of expertise and each is focused on a specific national or regional industry community. The multi-disciplinary teams have successfully delivered and managed more than 250 national and European collaborative R&D projects over the last decade. Nor-Tek provides industry support activities geared around providing step change improvement in competitive advantage for industry as a whole, and these are undertaken in response to direct approaches by industrial companies themselves. They have extensive experience in the management of EC projects under Framework Programme 5 and 6, often assuming the role of coordinator or administrator, and will be able to bring a high level of research management to ensure the success of the project.

Contact:

Mr. Geir Jonsrud

Nor-Tek Teknologisenter AS (Coordinator),

Gaustadalléen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway

Tel: (47) 22 95 82 44

Fax: (47) 22 60 44 27

E-mail: geir.jonsrud(at)nor-tek.no