The Open Transport project will address SDN and OpenFlow® Standard-based control capabilities for transport technologies of different types, including optical and wireless transport. The work will include identifying and addressing different use cases, defining the application of SDN architecture and information modeling to transport networks, and defining standard SDN interfaces for transport networks, including OpenFlow® protocol extensions and transport controller APIs.
* formerly Optical Transport
CHAIR: Lyndon Ong (Ciena)
VICE CHAIRS: Vishnu Shukla (Verizon), Maarten Vissers (Huawei), Karthik Sethuraman (NEC), Giorgio Cazzaniga (SM Optics)
Resources & Publications
Microwave Information Model (December 2016 | TR-532)
Functional Requirements for Transport API (June 2016 | TR-527)
SDN Architecture for Transport Networks (March 2016 | TR-522)
Optical Transport Working Group Charter
OpenFlow-enabled Transport SDN
Optical Transport Use Cases
Requirements Analysis for Transport OpenFlow/SDN
Optical_Transport_Protocol_Extensions_V1.0.pdf (April 2015)