NTT demonstrated for the first time an interface for cooperatively controlling mobile systems and optical systems based on its IOWN APN (All-Photonics Network) architecture.
The extended Cooperative Transport Interface (eCTI) could be used, for example, by mobile robots in factories, to access applications and data connected over a cooperative transport link from the wireless access point and over a fiber connection.
Two demonstration experiments were conducted by connecting a Wi-Fi access point (AP) and an IOWN APN line in a factory wireless environment, establishing an environment for communication between a wireless terminal under the Wi-Fi AP and a cloud server, and linking a wireless controller that implements the Radio function to understand wireless usage status with an optical controller that switches the IOWN APN line via eCTI in real time.
Demonstration according to application based on user instruction
- At a factory, assuming a switch from big data collection work to remote robot operation work for each process, we conducted experiments to simultaneously switch the Wi-Fi AP to be used and the optical path to the connected cloud server in accordance with the performance requirements of each work and demonstrated that the cooperation operation was completed.
- An experiment was conducted at a factory to detect the number of user terminals to be connected and automatically switch the optical path to the connected cloud server on the basis of the information. Results demonstrated that the cooperation operation was completed in about 100 ms.
