Open Networking Foundation Completes Industry’s First Wireless Transport SDN Proof of Concept
October 13 2015 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Member Companies Test Open SDN PoC Developed by
ONF-sponsored OpenSourceSDN.org Community
SDN AND OPENFLOW WORLD CONGRESS – The Open Networking
Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to
accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking
(SDN), has completed the industry’s first multi-vendor Wireless
Transport SDN Proof of Concept (PoC). Furthering ONF’s goal of
promoting greater commercial adoption of SDN, the PoC was designed
to encourage the development, testing, and implementation of open
SDN for Wireless Transport and to demonstrate multi-layer
optimization on an open SDN infrastructure. This PoC originated in
ONF’s Open Transport Working Group and evolved from a specification
into an open source software project in the OpenSourceSDN.org
community that ONF sponsors and that is open to the public.
ONF member companies Ceragon Networks, Coriant, Ericsson,
Huawei, NEC and SM Optics (SIAE MICROELETTRONICA group)
participated in the PoC testing, held October 7-9, 2015 in Madrid.
Participating member companies provided the networking equipment
and software consistent with the SDN architecture and leveraged the
Open Network Operating System (ONOS) open source SDN controller.
Testing was hosted by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks Institute, with
support from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
“ONF is thrilled to see this PoC realized and grateful to
Telefónica for serving as host of the first ever industry wireless
transport SDN PoC on the IMDEA Networks premises,” said Dan Pitt,
executive director of the Open Networking Foundation. “The wireless
extensions and abstraction of the ONF SDN controller, architecture,
and protocols are the foundation for a more efficient and dynamic
way of controlling and managing backhaul networks. These represent
a major portion of operator’s investment. Achieving such
flexibility through common control mechanisms in a multi-vendor
environment will facilitate the operational tasks and will enable
automation and coordination with other segments and layers of the
network.”
The PoC demonstrated the flexibility and programmability of a
multi-layer transport network controlled by a SDN controller for
efficient network resource utilization – including the ability to
reduce operational costs and meet future dynamic business demands.
Initial use cases successfully tested during the PoC included
capacity-driven air interface and flow-based shaping. The
capacity-driven use case demonstrates a network’s ability to adapt
to traffic demand and to efficiently optimize wireless resources
for a more energy efficient operation of the transport network. The
flow-based shaping use case demonstrates the network’s ability to
adapt and respond to changing conditions such as the weather
impacting wireless transport networks. This use case correlates the
traffic load through the Coriant transport routers with the quality
of wireless transport links for better overall network optimization
and traffic utilization.
About ONF
Launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google,
Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!, the Open Networking Foundation
(ONF) is a growing nonprofit organization with more than 130
members whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of open SDN.
ONF promotes open SDN and OpenFlow technologies and standards while
fostering a vibrant market of products, services, applications,
customers, and users. For further details visit the ONF website at:
http://www.opennetworking.org.
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