white box optics: will it kill or encourage innovation?

White Box Optics:Will It Kill or Encourage Innovation?Niall Robinson

Workshop

OFC 2017, Los Angeles

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What innovation is required to allow practical

deployment of white box technology?


Embracing an Open World


Aggregated and Disaggregated NetworksAggre

gate

d

Fully Aggregated: Entire transport network acts as a single managed system

End-to-End System

API

Fully Disaggregated: Everything is a separate network element

Partly Disaggregated: Transponder is one element, Open Line System (OLS) is second

Degrees

Open Line System

Dis

aggre

gate

d

APIAPI API

APIAPIAPI API API API

Transponder TransponderTerminal ILA ROADM Terminal


Voyager

White box, the final frontier. These are the voyages of ADVA Optical Networking. Its five-year mission: to explore new architectures, to seek out new approaches and new opportunities, to boldly go where no company has gone before.

Source: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount Studios


Voyager



Voyager White Box Support

NOC Support (TAC) TroubleshootingDocumentation and

Training

OSS

EMS/NMS

Transponder SW

Transponder HW

Optical Line System SW

Optical Line System HW

Order Fulfillment

Sparing RMA EFI/T&T

Offline Tools (Link Eng

RWA)

SIT/SVT

• White box HW/SW still

requires• Network management

• Professional services suite

• NOC support

• Documentation/training

• Etc.

System integrator to provide

Open OLS

White box HW

White box SW

Customer owned


2nd Gen ‘Transport’ White Box

Reinventing the wheel? Source: Jake Flemming


2nd Gen ‘Transport’ Whitebox

Reinventing the Wheel? Source: Jake Flemming

- Mechanicals (1RU)- Power- Controller- Etc.

1 2 n…

- FCAPS- Infrastructure- DB/SW mngr

‘Card’ API

Shelf API

Shelf

Hardware Software

Pluggable cards

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Copyright © for the entire content of this presentation: ADVA Optical Networking.

Niall Robinson

Vice PresidentGlobal Business Development

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