The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) have joined forces to tackle Transport Software Defined Networking (Transport SDN), creating networks to be more programmable to cater for the new era of dynamic services.
They are looking into catering for applications such as bandwidth-on-demand services that effectively address inter-enterprise bandwidth peaks such as data transfer between data centers, while optimizing precious network resources.
The testing, which will begin in late August in a number of global carrier labs, will leverage the OIF‘s carrier representation, knowledge of transport networks, and worldwide interoperability testing experience for optical equipment, with ONF’s leadership role for the OpenFlow™ protocol and SDN architecture. OpenFlow extensions for optical transport developed in the ONF Optical Transport Working Group will be prototyped in a demo.
"We expect SDN, in tandem with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), to shape the future of telecommunications networks. It is exciting to have these two prominent groups combining resources, innovative thinking and industry support to put together a very relevant and important demo.”
- Vishnu Shukla, Verizon and OIF President
"We are pleased to join forces with the OIF, who have been contributing to our efforts to extend OpenFlow to support optical transport networks. The OIF/ONF Transport SDN demonstration will showcase how transport networks will benefit from SDN and NFV.”
- Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation
