About ALLEGRO ‘Agile ultra low energy secure networks’
ALLEGRO aims at designing and validating a novel end-to-end sliceable, reliable, and secure architecture for next-generation optical networks, achieving high transmission/switching capacity
- with 10 Tb/s for optoelectronic devices and 1 Pbt/s for optical fiber systems
- low power consumption/cost
- with > 25% savings
- and secure infrastructures and data transfers.
The architecture relies on key enabling innovations:
- smart, coherent transceivers exploiting multi-band & multi-fiber technologies for P2P and P2MP applications, based on e.g., high-speed plasmonic modulators/photodetectors and programmable silicon photonic integrated waveguide meshes;
- loss-less, energy-efficient transparent photonic integrated optical switches, eliminating OEO conversions, e.g., with on-chip amplification in the O-band for datacom applications;
- a consistent approach to security, in terms of functional/ protocol architectures and communications, further improving QKD systems, enabling optical channel co-existence and researching on quantum-resistant (post-quantum) cryptography, developing systems based on physically unclonable functions; and
- a scalable AI/ML assisted control and orchestration system, responsible for autonomous networking, dynamic and constrained service provisioning, function placement and resource allocation, leveraging devices increasing programmability and overall network softwarization.
To achieve the target objectives and KPIs, ALLEGRO has defined a clear methodology ending in ambitious demonstrators. The consortium includes a good balance of industry and research/academia with know-how in complementary fields.
The results of ALLEGRO will be disseminated in leading conferences, events, and high-impact journals. They will have a concrete and measurable economic and social impact, contributing towards achieving key European objectives, reinforcing European leadership and digital sovereignty in the ongoing digital and green transition.
Project News
TAPI Telemetry in Action with ALLEGRO
🔧 Driving Real-Time Network Intelligence with Open StandardsPart of the ALLEGRO Project The ALLEGRO streaming telemetry platform is taking a major step forward by integrating with the TAPI telemetry framework, enabling real-time observability and automation in optical...
Advancing Network Telemetry with Interoperable Envelope Encoding
🔍 Part of the ALLEGRO Project To support a diverse ecosystem of network elements—ranging from TAPI telemetry and transponders to EDFAs and ROADMs—the ALLEGRO project proposes a flexible, scalable, and interoperable envelope encoding strategy for telemetry data...
Seamless Integration at the Core – ALLEGRO’s Unified Monitoring & Telemetry Platform
At the heart of the ALLEGRO intelligent optical platform lies a powerful unified monitoring and telemetry system—a central enabler of smart, adaptive networking. This platform is not a standalone component. It interacts dynamically with other ALLEGRO functions, most...
Joint Communications and Sensing in Smart Cities – ALLEGRO Project Spotlight
In the ALLEGRO project, we’re advancing the frontier of smart city infrastructure by unifying communication and sensing over existing fibre-optic networks. Traditionally used for high-speed optical connectivity, these fibres are now being reimagined as a dense urban...
ALLEGRO Project: Merging Communications & Sensing for Smarter Cities
One of the most groundbreaking innovations in the ALLEGRO platform is the integration of Joint Communications and Sensing—leveraging existing optical communication links for real-time urban sensing. 🚦 What does this mean?We are transforming the fibre-optic...
ALLEGRO Project: Scalable AI Engine for Intelligent Optical Networks
As we continue building smarter, self-optimizing optical networks within the ALLEGRO platform, the role of AI and Machine Learning becomes increasingly central. Our AI Engine is designed to handle the entire lifecycle of ML models—from training to deployment,...
ALLEGRO Project: Scalable and Intelligent Data Architecture for Optical Networks
In the ALLEGRO platform, effective telemetry data management is key to enabling intelligent, real-time decision-making in complex optical networks. That’s why we’ve designed a hybrid architecture combining centralized and distributed databases, optimized for both...
Project ALLEGRO: Performance Monitoring and Telemetry in Optical Networks
As part of the ALLEGRO platform, we're pushing the boundaries of network intelligence with advanced Performance Monitoring and Telemetry systems. This component is crucial for collecting, processing, and aggregating data from the physical layer—enabling real-time...
ALLEGRO Project — Unified Telemetry & Monitoring Platform with Integrated Sensing
As part of the ALLEGRO project, we’re excited to introduce a major innovation in optical network management: a telemetry and monitoring platform designed with integrated sensing capabilities and powered by machine learning. This platform enables real-time visibility,...
ALLEGRO Project — Coordinated Multi-Segment Control for Next-Gen Networks
Modern networks demand seamless coordination across diverse infrastructure layers — from access networks to the metro/core. The ALLEGRO project is stepping up to this challenge with a robust multi-segment control architecture, designed to bridge traditionally siloed...