NOS Panel I: Interoperation of Optical Pluggable Transceivers and IP/Optical Integration

Wednesday, 02 April, 10:45 – 12:15

Theater I

Session Description
The adoption of industry standards has been a key to the success of optical pluggable transceivers, with these industry agreements covering many aspects of module design and operations, including mechanical, high-speed electrical, line-side optical, and management implementations.  Recently, industry standards focused on coherent optical pluggable transceivers have led to a growing trend of IP/optical integration that can result in the collapsing of network layers, bringing TCO benefits to network operators. With multi-vendor interoperability of coherent optical transmission now well-defined at 400G, managing optical pluggable transceivers for reliable use in a multi-vendor, multi-layer environment is an ongoing effort.  This panel will provide an update on the status of module interoperability concerning host platforms (e.g., CMIS), what some of the management interoperability achievements and challenges have been since the introduction of 400G coherent optical transceivers, and how network operators can manage multi-vendor, multi-domain, multi-layer network with the converged IP and Optical network layers.

Organizer

Panelists