BONE: Your gateway to European optical networks research

BONE (Building the Future Optical Network in Europe) is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Programme. The BONE-project builds on the foundations laid out by the e-Photon/ONe projects in the previous Framework Programme. This Network of Excellence has successfully brought together over several years the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Networks. The BONE-project validates this effort by stimulating a more intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers and building on Virtual Centres of Excellence that can serve to European industry with education & training, research tools & testlabs and pave the way to new technologies & architectures.