With a €6 million investment from the European Commission, the SPRINTER project is developing optical and wireless technology that could replace today’s industrial networks with optical communications systems.
The SPRINTER hybrid (photonic/wireless) transceiver prototypes being developed are:
200 Gb/s optical transceivers for high-capacity core networks and hybrid free-space optical and mmWave transceivers and wavelength-tuneable 10 Gb/s transceivers that can dynamically adapt to changing conditions in real-time.
The project is also building a Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM
Led by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) in Athens, the SPRINTER project includes Fraunhofer (Germany), IMEC (Belgium), LioniX International (Netherlands), and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), alongside global tech firms like Ericsson (Italy) and Mellanox Technologies (Israel). Agile SMEs such as PHIX, CUMUCORE, FILL GmbH and 5G CSEM.
