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[Project Name] CHRON [Home Page] www.ict-chron.eu [Short Description] 
The CHRON project addresses the challenge of controlling and managing the next generation of heterogeneous optical networks supporting the Future Internet. Such networks will be of a highly heterogeneous nature, ranging from a wide variety of classes of services with different requirements, to wide physical layer diversity in optical transmission techniques and optical switching paradigms. The CHRON project proposes a Cognitive Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Optical Network, which observes, acts, learns and optimizes its performance. This new approach is based on introducing cognition into the control and management plane. A cognitive network becomes a kind of network that detects network conditions, traffic patterns and user demands and is able to efficiently take decisions and adapt to the new network state on each moment of time. This kind of network is able to meet the needs of a particular user while optimizing available resources of the whole network.
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