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To address the emerging requirements for real-time bandwidth management an automated and intelligent optical transport platform is needed to pull out much of the operational complexity residing on the upper layers. Such an optical reconfigurable network would dynamically modify itself in real time to respond to changing network conditions and service needs. An efficient dimensioning and design of this network infrastructure can not be achieved without a sound knowledge of the device capabilities and the limitations of the physical layer. It is very important to develop network layer solutions that are mindful of the limited operational margins of the optical components and subsystems and also provide ways to combat their non-ideal performance. Therefore, networking studies that attempt to incorporate physical-layer device characteristics while solving network layer problems have recently attract much of the research interest. This Cost291 workshop is co-located with ONDM 2007 and its purpose is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the perspectives of optical networking as well as the ability of the existing technologies to meet the projected challenges. Included are views on network applications and optical layer architectures, optical network element and optical network system design, network management and control, new service opportunities and optical network standards.
ONDM 2007 is sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing IFIP (http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/).

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