At its recent meeting in Berlin, the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF's) Carrier Working Group (WG) unanimously voted to begin a new Carrier Requirements document related to Management Plane Support of Ethernet/SAN over SONET/SDH. This document will enable cost-effective integration of intelligent optical control plane-based networks into carriers' operations infrastructures. The requirements will employ NMS/EMS interfaces such as the Telemanagement Forum's TMF 814 specification.
Other major developments at the OIF meeting include:
- the OIF's Physical and Link Layer (PLL) WG began a new tunable laser project. This project will extend the pre-existing industry standard 300-pin MSA for 10 Gigabit Optical Transponders to support tunable lasers. The benefit of this MSA, and tunable lasers in general, to system companies, service providers and their customers, is to simplify inventory management, enable faster introduction of wavelength-based services and reduce operational costs.
- Joe Berthold, vice president of network architecture at CIENA Corp., was re-named president of the OIF
- directors elected to an additional term include Tom Afferton, division manager at AT&T Labs, who continues as OIF's treasurer and secretary; Marco Carugi, senior advisor, advanced technology, CTO office at Nortel Networks; and Doug Zuckerman, senior scientist at Telcordia Technologies.
