Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Thursday released a list of vendors that will participate in the Global Transport Software Defined Networking (SDN) interoperability testing and demonstration in several carrier labs worldwide.
According to OIF and ONF, the participating vendors are ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Coriant, Fiberhome, Fujitsu, Huawei, NEC United States and ZTE. China Mobile, China Telecom, TELUS and Verizon are hosting the testing in their labs.
The testing which will be completed this month provides real-world scenarios for both vendors and carriers to test prototype Transport SDN technology. OpenFlow™ extensions developed in the ONF Optical Transport Working Group are being prototyped and tested in the demo in both CDPI and CVNI forms. The framework of the demo is cloud-bursting or application-based bandwidth-on-demand between data center sites.
The results of the testing will be shared in October in a whitepaper and at the Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress.
"The ability to bring vendors into carrier labs to test prototype technology provides unparalleled opportunity for industry-wide collaboration. This joint work is an initial step in solving the practical issues of implementing transport SDN in commercial networks with the shared goal to make transport networks more programmable in order to enable a new era of dynamic services.”
- Vishnu Shukla of Verizon and president of the OIF
"We are pleased to join forces with the OIF to demonstrate OpenFlow-based Transport SDN capabilities for and with the world’s leading operators. ONF is committed to combined efforts like this to achieve interoperability and widespread adoption of open SDN in the service provider community and beyond.”
- Dan Pitt, executive director of ONF
