Speakers
Rafi Leiman
(Ribbon Communications)
Rob Smets
(SURF)
Description
Ideally, NRENs should be able to interwork with each other at the optical level to support efficient exchange of high-bandwidth information, which is vital to their collective mission. The presentation contrasts two approaches to achieve this.
One approach uses two flavours of spectrum sharing – spectral pipes and spectrum slicing – that allow a guest-NREN to control use of spectrum from a host-NREN, in effect creating a shared optical infrastructure.
Another approach relies on disaggregated ROADMs, where a guest-NREN exercises granular control over a host-NREN’s ROADMs, down to the level of the underlying WSS, as well as over other optical networking resources.
Primary authors
Mr
Jonathan Homa
(Ribbon)
Rafi Leiman
(Ribbon Communications)
Rob Smets
(SURF)
