Pionier – polski internet optyczny

The Programme called "Polish Optical Internet PIONIER", planned for the period 2001-2005, is aimed as further infrastructure development for polish scientific and academic institutes. It constitutes the continuation of the Committee for Scientific Research previous programme (1993-1999), the aim of which was the scientific infrastructure construction. The results of these projects are as follows: establishment of 5 High Performance Computing (HPC) centres and 21 academic metropolitan networks as well, and development of data bases and software. Also, an inteligent optical network - the Polish Optical Network - was developed, of following properties: multichannel (the DWDM technics), bandwidth nx (10,40,...) Gb/sec and IP protocol. The network is now of length 3000 km, and further 2000 km will be constructed in the year 2005. As the result, the uniform interurban fiber optics network has been constructed. This network can be the development base for private networks of ATM standard, for SDH channels, for special applications optical lambdas and grids. The network will serve the science, education, national health service and administration, applying equal and independent rules.