Objectives:

• Perform the overall legal, ethical, financial and administrative management
• Manage contract and consortium agreement issues
• Maintain records of cost and effort
• Monitor the compliance of partners with obligations under the GA
• Define internal project controls
• Facilitate communication and co-operation between the partners
• Prepare periodic management and technical progress reports, as required
• Provide communication with EC
• Prepare the scheduled project reviews
• Ensure that equal opportunities are offered to both genders
• Provide technical planning with up-to-date contingency plan
• Enable effective innovation management and response to opportunities.

Objectives:

• Definition of application scenarios in industrial environments
• Specification of network architecture and interfaces and definition of system-level requirements of SPRINTER technology to satisfy the needs of application scenarios
• Translate further these requirements into a concrete module and component designs
• Define the process flow for the assembly and packaging of all prototypes
• Develop the necessary set of DSP methods and control algorithms for the operation and testing of SPRINTER modules
• Develop the system models of the individual components and modules, and perform system-level simulations
• Perform small-scale system experiments using stand-alone components, and provide feedback on the design of SPRINTER prototypes.

Objectives:

• Design and fabricate 4-fold InP-EML and InP-PD arrays for 200 Gb/s links, operating in O-band
• Design and fabricate 4-fold GaAs-VCSEL and InP-PD arrays for 200 Gb/s links, operating at 1060 nm
• Design and fabricate PolyBoard motherboard to host the 4-fold EML/PD arrays and 4-fold VCSEL/PD arrays
• Design and fabricate multi-lane RF FlexLines
• Design and fabricate the 3D PolyBoard SDM-ROADM.

Objectives:

• Design and fabricate high-power (>100 mW), ultra-fast tunable (<1 μs) ECLs based on PZT actuators that will be hybridly interfaced to a PolyBoard-InP MZM and a LNOI-MZM
• Design and fabricate high-performance integrated LNOI-MZM, supporting 10 Gb/s data rate
• Design and fabricate high-performance InP-MZM, supporting 10 Gb/s data rate
• Design and fabricate PolyBoard/InP and TriPleX chips for the FSO/mmWave transceivers
• Design and fabricate 4×4 planar antenna array on PolyBoard

Objectives:

• Develop 4-fold array of drivers/TIAs for the EML-based and VCSEL-based transceivers, supporting 50 Gb/s with OOK-NRZ modulation format, per lane
• Develop burst mode receiver for operation at 10 Gb/s
• Select appropriate interposers to host the optical subassemblies and develop method for efficient integration and electrical connection
• Ensure integration and packaging engines are compatible with high-volume production
• Develop numerical models and simulate the electro-magnetic, thermal and mechanical behavior of the envisioned transceiver and switching prototypes
• Package and deliver the SPRINTER prototypes

Objectives:

• TSN system time synchronization network bootstrapping
• Wired network resource allocation and traffic scheduling
• Wireless network resource control and traffic management.

Objectives:

• Define the methodology and protocols for the benchtop and system evaluation of SPRINTER technology and prepare the corresponding testbeds
• Develop the RF/IF/BB units for the mmWave system
• Develop the electrical units for the configuration of the optical parts of SPRINTER prototypes, including the fast tunable ECL, optical switch, and OBFN
• Perform the system integration of SPRINTER prototypes combining the optical transceivers and switch with the electrical units
• Validate the baseline functionalities of all prototypes in laboratory settings
• Validate the system performance of all prototypes in TSN-enabled settings
• Perform demo use cases in relevant industrial environments, based on SPRINTER wireline and wireless technology

Objectives:

• Perform a market analysis and create a roadmap with concrete steps towards the commercialization of SPRINTER demonstrators
• Organize the plans of the partners for exploitation of the project foreground knowledge at the technology, component and system level
• Monitor IPR across the globe, assess the possible threats
• Protect and manage the IPR that will be generated in the project
• Monitor and continuously update the implementation of the Data Management Plan (DMP)
• Implement the open science policy via the deposition of generated data sets to open access repositories
• Disseminate results to the scientific community, industry, stakeholders and general public
• Set up the website, prepare a promotion video and streamline the rest of the D/C activities
• Promote the interaction with other European and national projects.