Converged Packet-Optical Software Defined Networking

Service Provider Networks are complex and multi-layer in nature. Today, Provisioning and adding bandwidth requires order of days if not months. Since packet and optical networks are managed independently, each one of them has to be overprovisioned to deal with traffic anomalies and failures.

This leads to lack of service agility and is a significant source of capex and opex overhead for the network operator.

This talk provides an overview of multi-layer optimization platform specific to packet-optical SDN implementation for Wide Area Networks. Tom & Marc will review multilayer network abstractions POC performed at ON.LAB, including flexible packet-optical bandwidth sharing and on-demand network applications, such as Bandwidth Calendaring, on demand networks, and traffic engineering options.

Tom & marc will show how a converged SDN Control plane for packet and optical networks can help address many network in-efficiencies.

Speakers: Tom Tofigh, AT&T; Marc Dee Leenheer, ON.LAB