Activities

Contributed a paper to IEEE Journal
	January, 2011
PIF contributed a paper to the IEEE-Journal of Lightwave Technology.;
Subject	Security in Photonic Networks : Potential Threats and Security Enhancement
Establishment of adhoc technical working group 　　-- Lambda aggregation WG --
	December, 2010
PIF organized a new technical working group aiming to establish a dynamic optical network technology that can respond flexibly to fluctuation in traffic. The review meeting was held six times. PIF proposed study results to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on March, 2011.
Technical visit in the United States
	April 19-23, 2010
PIF visited the following organizations to investigate trends in the field of most advanced photonic networks.
	ISOCORE National Science Foundation (NSF) NICT Washington Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Verizon UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
Submitted public comments to the Cabinet Office
	May-June, 2011
PIF submitted the following public comments to the Cabinet Office.
	Importance of photonic networks at information and communications technology, and its future prospect Energy-saving for efficient use of electrical energy --- Energy-saving of information appliances and information communications equipments

2011 Regular general meeting and Memorial lecture
	July 15, 2011
PIF held 2011 regular general meeting, and subsequently held a 10th anniversary lecture. PIF invited three speakers to this lecture from China, Korea and Europe.
Program	General meeting　　13:15 - 14:15
	2010 Activity report 2011 Action plan Change of executives Prof. Ken-ichi Kitayama, Vice-Chairperson - -> Chairperson Prof. Tomonori Aoyama, Chairperson - -> Adviser Kazuo Hagimoto, Chairperson of Standard Promotion Committee - -> Vice-Chairperson
	Lecture　　14:30 - 18:00
	Opening address 　- - PIF 10 years activities and future prospects by Prof. Tomonori Aoyama, Adviser, PIF Optical Burst Switch : review and prospect by Prof. Jintong Lin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Optical Internet Technologies and Applications in Korea by Prof. Minho Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science And Technology, Korea Optical Communications Research in Europe by Prof. M O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK Toward the reconstruction of disaster-resistant telecommunications networks by Prof. Masataka Nakazawa, Tohoku University Guest greeting by Shigeyuki Kubota, Director-General for Policy Coordination, Ministry of Internal Affair and Communications
Kitayama & Aoyama
Technical Seminar 　　-- Optical communication technology --
	February 21, 2011
Technical seminar was held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of PIF.
Title	Prospects of ICT paradigm shift that will be brought by new generation networks and inter-cloud by Prof. Tomonori Aoyama, Chairperson, PIF Photonic networks technology trends by Prof. Ken-ichi Kitayama, Vice-Chairperson, PIF Development of photonic networks that will revolutionize the networks by Prof. Ken-ichi Sato, Vice-Chairperson of Technical Research Committee, PIF Photonic transport technologies, and future prospects by Shinji Matsuoka, NTT

2011 Series of tutorials for young Japanese researchers
PIF normally performs a tutorial twice a year.
1st session	June 17, 2011
Title	Digital coherent optical fiber telecommunication by Prof. Kazurou Kikuchi, Tokyo University Transport network control and Collaborative applications by means of OpenFlow network control by Souichiro Araki, member of Technical Research Committee, PIF

2nd session	November, 2011(unfixed)
Title	undecided
Lecture meeting regarding U.S. Technology research, and overseas latest technology trends
	November 26, 2010
PIF reported the activity results of U.S. survey team who　ｗａｓ　ｄｉｓｐａｔｃｈｅｄ on April 2010. In addition, PIF made a lecture on the overseas latest technology trends.
Program	Opening address by Prof. Tomonori Aoyama, Chairperson, PIF Photonic networks technology trends in U.S. (U.S. survey report) by Prof. Ken-ichi Kitayama, Vice-Chairperson, PIF Current status of future networks in Europe, and Introduction of "EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet & New Generation Network" by Hiroaki Harai, member of Standard Promotion Committee, PIF Latest trends of Multi Protocol Label Switching 2010 -- Carrier Ethernet & MPLS by Prof. Satoshi Okamoto, member of Technical Research Committee, PIF

2010 Series of tutorials for young Japanese researchers
PIF held the following two tutorials in 2010.
1st session	May 14, 2010
Title	Description of the performance of various optical switch by Prof. Katsuyuki Utaka, Waseda University Trends of standardization of Optical Transport Network (OTN) by Takuya Ohara, member of Technical Research Committee, PIF

2nd session	November 19, 2010
Title	Cloud computing and virtualization technology by Eiji Kawai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Latest trends in optical interconnection by Xueliang Song, Director & CTO, Advanced Photonics, Inc.

Opinion exchange meeting
	March 3, 2011
Opinion exchange meeting was held ｂｙ PIF members who have participated in ITU-T, IEEE, OIF, IETF, etc. standardization activities. Many opinions were discussed about such as activities of these organizations, and future directions of these organizations
Program	100G & beyond 100G by Takehiro Tsuritani, member of Standard Promotion Committee, PIF Next Generation modulation scheme by Eiji Yoshida, member of Standard Promotion Committee, PIF Multi Protocol Label Switching - Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) by Yoshinori Koike, NTT Next Generation Passive Optical Network (NG-PON) by Jun-ichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric IEEE1904.1 Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON) by Motoyuki Takizawa, FUJITSU TELECOM NETWORKS

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