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  • Technical Conference:  24 – 28 March 2024
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  • San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA

Open Networking Summit

Monday, 25 March, 16:30 – 18:30

Room 6E

Open and Disaggregated Optical Networking: Where We've Been and What's Coming Next

Open and disaggregation have grown in popularity and appeal across networking segments, including optical networks, in the past few years. With open and disaggregated networks, operators/hyperscalers can use best-in-class equipment and avoid vendor lock-in, thereby gaining faster innovation, flexibility, and scalability as their network needs grow. Deployment status varies by network segments, working distances, and geographic regions, including data center networks with backbone long-haul and metro, core networks, and customer premises equipment (CPE) in metro and edge layer. Operators/hyperscalers from different geographic regions also have different attitudes and adopt varied approaches.

This summit aims to gather service providers, cloud providers, equipment vendors, and component vendors across the eco-system to share learnings and experiences, highlight innovation, and discuss the future of open and disaggregated optical networking, including software-defined networking (SDN), southbound interfaces, information modeling, interoperable DSP, IP over DWDM, and coherent pluggable transceivers.

Topics to be targeted by this summit include but will not be limited to:

1) In what segments of the network have openness and disaggregation been applied, i.e., long-haul/backbone, metro, or access?

2) What were the anticipated pros and cons of openness and disaggregation? Were those realized in deployment? (e.g., Have the projected cost savings been realized?)

3) Will openness and/or disaggregation help or hinder convergence of different network segments (e.g., metro and long-haul) and layers (IP + optical)?

4) Will nascent interoperable DSP stimulate increased adoption of openness and disaggregation in optical networks?

5) Will openness and disaggregation be a key enabler for IP over WDM?

6) What advances are needed in managing smart coherent pluggables in routers to enable IP over WDM?

Organizers

Lynn Nelson, AT&T, United States

Shen Shikui, China Unicom, China

Norman Swenson, Infinera, United States

Presenters

Sebastien Gareau, Ciena, Canada

Steven J. Hand, Infinera, United States

Emerson Moura, Cisco, Brazil

Kirsten Rundberget, AT&T, United States

Chongjin Xie, Alibaba Group, China