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Fujitsu Tests ONOS-based SDN Controller for Packet-Optical Networks

Fujitsu Tests ONOS-based SDN Controller for Packet-Optical Networks Image Credit: Fujitsu

Fujitsu, Monday announced that it has successfully demonstrated interoperability with the Open-Source Networking Operating System (ONOS). The ONOS open-source SDN network operating system project aims to deliver highly available and scalable SDN control plane featuring northbound and southbound open APIs and paradigms for a diversity of management, control, and service applications across mission critical networks.

According to Fujitsu, the goal of the testing was to validate important enhancements of the ONOS Cardinal Release, which includes new southbound plugins to enable multilayer, multivendor network deployments. Fujitsu, a founding ONOS partner, developed TL1 southbound interfaces from the ONOS-based SDN controller to the FLASHWAVE® 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (P-ONP) to provide Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) services: On-demand bandwidth, bandwidth calendaring and multi-layer optimization.

Igor Bergman, Head of the Software Business Unit at Fujitsu Network Communications
Packet over Optical is one of the key use cases for transport network SDN. By having visibility to both the packet and optical layers, service providers can improve network efficiency and service delivery velocity at lower operations costs.

Guru Parulkar, Executive Director and Board Member of Open Networking Lab
ONOS is designed to address the toughest challenges that Service Providers face with SDN deployments. We focused on and demonstrated ONOS’s scalability, performance and high availability attributes with the first two releases. Now with the Cardinal release, we are demonstrating a set of Solution POCs including how ONOS-based SDN control plane can be used for multi-vendor multi-layer packet-optical networks. As a valued ONOS member and contributor, Fujitsu is helping to drive growth of the ONOS ecosystem and its continued successful evolution.

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