Sunday, 30 March,
16:00
–
18:30
Rooms 209-210 (Level 2)
Unlike the performance-oriented transponders, pluggables trade-off performance for cost, size and energy with fast adoption of 400ZR/400ZR+, ongoing standardization for 800ZR/ZR+ and 1600ZR/ZR+ in sight. A pluggable from a vendor may be hosted in the shelf (an optical ROADM or an IP router) from another vendor. Current IP and optical transport networks, or even optical networks from different vendors, are managed separately. The inclusion of a pluggable from vendor on equipment from another vendor blurs control and management boundaries and raise many issues.
In this workshop, the following open challenges will be addressed:
- Which alternatives are valid for hierarchical SDN control of disaggregated networks?
- What are the current limitations of the recently proposed standards?
- Who owns the responsibility for malfunction of each component?
- Overall, who will be responsible for the pluggable – the layer/operational unit in charge of the pluggable, or of the system (ROADM or IP router) that hosts the pluggable?
Organizers
Yvan Pointurier (Lead), Huawei Technologies, France
Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Telefonica R&D, Spain
Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Speakers
Tony Dicorato, Nokia, Canada
Unifying Control and Cross-Domain Management for Coherent Pluggables in Disaggregated Networks
Xiang Liu, Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong
Intelligent Control of Smart Optical Modules in AI-Era Optical Networks
Raul Muñoz, CTTC, Spain
The Nightmare of Hierarchical SDN Control for Coherent Pluggable Transceivers in Disaggregated IPoWDM Networks
Hideki Nishizawa, NTT, Japan
Cloud-Native/Centralized Approach: Remote Control Agent (RCA) for Secure Operation of Coherent Transceivers
Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Telefónica, Spain
SDN Control of IPoDWDM Telco Production Networks - Current Status and Next Steps
Reza Rokui, Ciena, Canada
Coherent Pluggables in Packet Over Optical Network(IETF Activities on Control, Modelling and Use-Cases)
Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
Pluggable Transponders Make IP+WDM Available Again
Arash Vakili, Meta, United States
ZR Integration in Meta’s Backbone and Metro Network
Ahsaan Yousaf, Google, United States
A Hyperscaler’s Perspective on Pluggable Management
Xu Zhou, Baidu, China
Challenges of Pluggable Transceivers in Disaggregated Network for Traditional DCI and AI Training Network