Next-Generation Telecom Switch

路线图系统公司是高容量光通信交换技术的全球领导者。在这个项目中，路线图将与一家跨国电信系统供应商合作进行可行性研究。这项研究将确定基于路线图新技术平台的下一代高容量光开关的最佳设计。这种光交换机将改变当前和下一代电信网络的数据容量。这将使企业和家庭用户的带宽大幅增加，提供广泛的千兆互联网服务，同时降低订阅成本。COVID - 19大流行表明，在封锁限制下，高带宽互联网的广泛可用性对于英国和全球经济的持续运转至关重要。商业、社交和休闲服务越来越多地转向网络。这一趋势已经显示出显著的环境效益，减少了通勤和休闲旅行产生的碳排放和局部污染物。提高高速互联网接入的性能和可用性对于支持经济复苏至关重要，同时保持并进一步提高这种社会转型的环境效益。2014年，剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）成立了路线图公司，旨在将工程系开发的光交换技术商业化。该公司将利用其在大容量光交换方面的专有技术，以及与电信网络运营商建立的关系，设计一种在短期内改变光网络容量的产品。路线图拥有成功交付先进光交换技术平台的记录，现在将与最终用户合作开发符合当前市场需求的产品。该项目将采用路线图公司专有的二维波束导向技术。它使用硅基液晶（LCoS）微显示器来引导自由空间的二维光束，提供比最先进的一维转向更大的容量。路线图还将利用他们在新的4k分辨率LCoS微显示器方面的独特经验。它们提供了比当前1080p分辨率微显示器更大的交换容量，但尚未成功集成到电信交换产品中。结合这两种技术，将使路线图设计的光开关具有比现有产品大数量级的容量。反过来，这将显著降低成本，大小和功耗的每单位带宽交换容量。这将对实现能够完全支持千兆固定电话和5G移动服务的高容量网络具有重大意义。

ROADMap Systems is a global leader in high-capacity optical telecom switching technology. In this project ROADMap will conduct a feasibility study in partnership a multinational telecom systems vendor. This study will identify the best designs for a next-generation high-capacity optical switch based on ROADMap's novel technology platform. This optical switch will transform the data capacity of current and next-generation telecom networks. This will enable substantial bandwidth increases for business and domestic subscribers, providing widespread Gigabit internet services while simultaneously lowering subscription costs. The COVID 19 pandemic has illustrated that the broad availability of high-bandwidth internet is essential for the continued function of the UK and global economies under lockdown restrictions. Business, social and leisure services are moving increasingly online. This trend has already shown significant environmental benefits, reducing the carbon emissions and localised pollutants produced by commuting and leisure travel. Improving the performance and availability of high-speed internet access will be essential to support the economic recovery, while simultaneously maintaining and further enhancing the environmental benefits of this societal transformation. ROADMap was spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2014, to commercialise the optical switching technology developed in the Department of Engineering. The company will leverage its proprietary technology in high-capacity optical switching together with its established relationships with telecom network operators, to design a product that will transform the optical network capacity in the near term. ROADMap has a track record of successfully delivering advanced optical switching technology platforms, and will now work with end users to develop a product to match the current needs of the market. The project will apply ROADMap's proprietary two-dimensional beam-steering technology. This uses liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) microdisplays to steer free-space optical beams in two-dimensions, providing greater capacity than the state-of-the-art one-dimensional steering. ROADMap will also leverage their unique experience with new 4k-resolution LCoS microdisplays. These provide significantly greater switching capacity than the current 1080p-resolution microdisplays, but have not yet been successfully integrated into a telecom switching product. Combining these two technologies will allow ROADMap to design optical switches with an order-of-magnitude greater capacity than existing products. In turn this will significantly decrease the cost, size and power consumption for each unit of bandwidth switching capacity. This will be of enormous significance in enabling a high-capacity network, capable of fully supporting Gigabit landline and 5G mobile services.