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June, 22-24
Alessandro DAlessandro
MPLS World Congress 2005
Paris, 17 February 2005
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Contents
OIF overview OIF World interoperability demo An
example of local demo Telecom Italia Lab
experience in Torino Conclusions
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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)Overview

• Launched in April 1998 with the main objective to
  foster the development of low-cost and scalable
  internet using optical technologies
• The only industry group bringing together
  professionals from the data and optical
  communities
• Open forum 130 member companies
• Carriers
• Component and systems vendors
• Testing and software companies
• OIF MissionTo foster the development and
  deployment of interoperable products and services
  for data switching and routing using optical
  networking technologies
• www.oiforum.com

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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)Organization
and main focus
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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)Organization
and main focus
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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)Outputs

• Implementation agreements, using
• Carrier user groups requirements
• Existing standards and specifications when
  available
• Newly developed solutions when necessary
• Interoperability demonstrations, to validate
  industry acceptance and maturity of
  implementation agreements
• Testing methods, to evaluate interoperability
  that will help in the accelerated development of
  interoperable products and networks
• Inputs to other standardization bodies and fora

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Contents
OIF overview OIF World interoperability demo An
example of local demo Telecom Italia Lab
experience in Turin Conclusions
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OIF World Interoperability Demo 2004 (I)

• Interop Area 1 Fast, automatic and dynamic
  end-to-end optical multi-vendor connection
  management
• Demo objectives
• Dynamic resource allocation by a standardized
  control plane
• Automatic provisioning by client equipment via
  UNI interface (Switched connections) or by
  management system (Soft permanent connections)
• Automatic multi-domain provisioning via E-NNI
  interface
• Carrier perspectives and benefits
• Enabling of advanced, customizable services
• Enabling of multi-vendor interoperability
• Simplification of node/network management
• Effort and time reduction for end-to-end service
  provisioning

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OIF World Interoperability Demo 2004 (II)

• Interop Area 2 Efficient Ethernet transport over
  SONET/SDH (GFP, VCAT, LCAS)
• Demo objectives
• Generic Framing Protocol mapping Ethernet over
  SONET/SDH
• Virtual Concatenation flexible bandwidth
  allocation and diverse paths
• Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme hitless
  bandwidth modification
• Carrier perspective and benefits
• Efficient use of existing SDH infrastructure for
  offering Ethernet data services
• Possibility of advanced Ethernet connectivity
• Packet data with SONET/SDH grade reliability and
  multiple QoS

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A distributed real time demo
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A distributed real time demo
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Supercomm 2004 Interop Demo Team
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Project organization
Management Centralized organization Activities
coordination Last minute-changes
Marketing and PR Distributed organization Pre-fixe
d check points
Information Technology Distributed organization
Technical staff Distributed organization HW SW
issues
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Communication Tools
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Contents
OIF overview OIF World interoperability demo An
example of local demo Telecom Italia Lab
experience in Turin Conclusions
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Demonstration setup
Mapping of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
SONET/SDH
SONET/SDH
Dynamic setup of backbone connection
SONET/SDH
SONET/SDH
Router
Router
UNI 1.0 R2
UNI 1.0 R2
SONET/SDH
SONET/SDH
Protection and recovery demonstration
E-NNI 1.0
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LCAS protection and recovery demonstration
Video
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Contents
OIF overview OIF World interoperability demo An
example of local demo Telecom Italia Lab
experience in Turin Conclusions
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Significance of the Achievement

• First time ever in the industry to conduct world
  wide multi-carrier interoperability testing
• Carriers close involvement and strong support is
  a key milestone towards deployment of
  automatically switched optical networks
• Lays the foundation for future testing
  methodology and demo infrastructure
• Successful control plane and data plane
  integration and interworking
• validates OIFs Implementation Agreements and
  ITUs Standards
• demonstrates that standardization clearly
  facilitates multi-vendor, world-wide
  interoperability
• Successful validation of multi vendor
  interoperability on Ethernet service adaptation
  (GFP, VCAT/LCAS)
• Demonstrates the possibility to offer new
  services over legacy network in a cost-effective
  way

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Conclusions

• Large scale, world wide OIF interoperability
  testing is progressively validating the maturity
  of NG-SDH and IP over Optical technologies
• The strong presence of Carriers and Vendors in
  OIF ensures proper setting of requirements for
  next generation IP/optical networks with advanced
  control plane
• The valuable effort of Carriers and Vendors in
  OIF is accelerating the development of
  easy-to-deploy solutions
• Further cooperative effort is needed by all
  Standardization Bodies to make available
  completely standardized solutions

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