Fujitsu Network Communications on Wednesday announced that its new multi-vendor network design and planning tool for Open ROADM networks has been selected by a Tier One service provider.
The new tool, Virtuora PD is an SDN-based application, optimizes and simplifies planning, design, and testing of optical networks that conform to Open ROADM specifications.
As service providers strive for greater accuracy, cost efficiency and scalability — particularly with regard to critical communications infrastructure that is now more important than ever — they need advanced tools that ensure interoperability and peak performance, said Fujitsu.
Virtuora PD enables closed-loop multi-vendor network design and deployment with capacity planning; and a unified view of planned and deployed networks. Virtuora PD accesses a set of common network characteristics from multiple vendors’ equipment to align with service provider business processes. As a result, service providers can speed up the overall process of network design and deployment; reduce errors with zero touch provisioning; and drive out operational inefficiencies with tightly integrated Operations Support Systems (OSS) tools.
Francois Lafontaine, VP and Head of the Software Business, Fujitsu Network Communications
Virtuora PD is a key component in enabling open networks, helping providers overcome the disadvantages of proprietary architectures.
