ZTE said its Software-Defined Optical Network (SDON) controller solution has completed the interoperability test of the Open Internetworking Forum (OIF) and Open Networking Foundation (ONF).
The OIF and ONF tests were hosted in the laboratories of TELUS, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and China Telecom.
ZTE, which competes with Huawei, Nokia Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, etc. said said the test demonstrated the interoperability of cross-regional and multi-vendor bandwidth-on-demand (BoD) services, dynamic network adaptability, improved network O&M efficiency, and the potential for reduced operating expense for telecom operators.
The new SDON controller from ZTE, based on Elastic Network control architecture, demonstrated its capabilities to enable global telecom operators to manage their networks with better openness, and improved flexibility and coordination.
Through the integration of optical transport network (OTN) technology and the SDN architecture, ZTE’s SDON controller provides open support to upper-level multi-domain controller/service orchestrator and applications, while simultaneously offering centralized control of hierarchical network interoperability, said ZTE in a statement.
The new solution is built on ZTE’s PCE (path computation element) control solution for optical transport networks, which debuted in 2013.
ZTE SDON controller test shows flexible support for open interfaces such as Openflow and RESTful CVNI (Control Virtual Network Interface) and CDPI (Control Data Plane Interface). It opens its network to multiple users at the same time, provides the interfaces supporting many application forms and requirements, and supports cross-operator, cross-vendor service interoperability.
Baburajan K
editor@telecomlead.com
