GEYSERS

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are a group of thirteen autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Parliament of India. The IITs were created to train scientists and engineers, with the aim of developing a skilled workforce to support the economic and social development of India after independence in 1947 The IIT Bombay is a school of higher education that provides undergraduate and post graduate education as well as cutting edge research. IIT Bombay has been ranked amongst the top 5 institutions in the world in multiple Times Higher Education Survey (THES, UK). It is known for excellent research in engineering disciplines.

Relevant expertise / know-how
IIT Bombay group led by Prof. Ashwin Gumaste has had significant interaction with Indian telcos, both government owned incumbents and private players. This coupled with the active work by the co-PI will help enable disseminate GEYSERS findings to the Indian community thereby getting valuable inputs to the GEYSERS partners.

Role in the project
IIT will work on creation of user cases and business cases that are directly in line with the GEYSERS architecture and are incorporating business aspects from the prospective of international businesses in telecom. In particular, IIT will facilitate the generation of pragmatic business cases and service applications that are valid beyond European boundaries – in Asia and North America. Select IT applications will be mapped to the GEYSERS effort and associated analysis will be performed and presented.
IIT will work with TUBS in developing an all-Ethernet framework for control and signaling or the optical infrastructure. The framework will also have interconnection with the higher layers particularly with the optical and IP layers. In the optical layer, IIT will consider mapping a multitude of technology solutions to the GEYSERS framework. In particular different ROADM technologies such as WSS based, multi-degree WSS and light-trails will be considered through a SWOT analysis. We will also contribute to maximizing fibre capacity and reach through novel physical layer innovations. The above tasks are particularly catered to T.1 to T.3 in WP2.
IIT will start working with all partners and continue working with TUBS on conceptual and theoretical studies and academic dissemination. Our emphasis will be on international outreach and GEYSERS international visibility, and especially the consideration of the Indian academic and business partners (IIT). From that prospective, IIT will participate in relevant standardization activities within the IETF and ITU bodies. In particular, IIT will work in involving Indian operators to participate in awareness meetings. These will help GEYSERS technology to be disseminated to Indian telco operators.

CVs of key persons
Ashwin Gumaste is currently the James R. Isaac Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is at present a Visiting Scientist with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA and an Associate Professor (Research) at Iowa State University. He was previously with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA) Inc as a Member of Research Staff in the Photonics Networking Laboratory (2001-05). Prior to this he worked in Fujitsu Network Communications R&D and prior to that with Cisco Systems in the Optical Networking Group (ONG). He has over forty pending U.S. and EU patents, 12 issued patents and has published close to hundred papers in referred conferences and journals. He has also authored three books in broadband networks called DWDM Network Designs and Engineering Solutions (a networking bestseller), and First-Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies (for Pearson Education/Cisco Press) and Broadband Services: User Needs, Business Models and Technologies for John Wiley. Ashwin's research has been funded by vendors, providers, system integrators and government agencies. He has served Program Chair, Co-chair, Publicity chair and workshop chair for IEEE conferences and as Program Committee member for IEEE ICC, Globecom, OFC, ICCCN, Gridnets etc. Ashwin is also a  guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network. He can be reached through www.ashwin.name.