Optical Internetworking Forum to Host Global Interoperability Event

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is planning a global joint carrier, multi-vendor optical network interoperability demonstration to be conducted simultaneously in China, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States and showcased at SUPERCOMM in Chicago. Carriers participating in the OIF World Interoperability Demonstration will include AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI R&D Laboratories, NTT, Telecom Italia, and Verizon.



Participating supplier and carrier companies will conduct interoperability testing of Ethernet over SONET/SDH services and dynamic optical networking services. Based on ITU-T standards for Ethernet service adaptation, the Ethernet over SONET/SDH services testing will include the Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), and the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). The dynamic optical networking interoperability testing will be based on OIF implementation agreements for UNI 1.0 release 2 and E-NNI, and will include testing of both the control and data plane. These implementation agreements are based on the ITU's requirements for automatically switched optical networks. The carriers will also be coordinating the overall network interoperability requirements between the multiple carrier lab locations.



The World Interoperability Demonstration will be available for public observation during SUPERCOMM 2004 from June 22-24, in Chicago at the OIF booth #2006, Hall B2. http://www.oiforum.com