Future access architecture: Software-defined accesss networking

Author

Ruobin Zheng ; Wenle Yang ; Jun Zhou

Author_Institution

Huawei Technol. Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

fYear

2014

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

881

Lastpage

886

Abstract

In the cloud era, booming broadband access, and the new services that it facilitates, is posing a greater demand on access technologies. Legacy access technologies are facing lots of challenges: Complexity for multi-point access management; Scalability and energy efficiency in remote nodes; Painfulness of choosing a technology; Difficulty of access network wholesale. To address these challenges, this paper discusses Software-defined Access Networks (SDAN) as the next-gen architecture for access networking. With its simplified access nodes, flexible and programmable line technologies, and cloud home gateway & services, SDAN helps operators construct a simple, agile, elastic, and value-added access network.

Keywords

computer networks; SDAN; access nodes; broadband access; cloud home gateway; cloud home services; computer networks; flexible line technologies; future access architecture; legacy access technologies; multipoint access management; next gen architecture; programmable line technologies; remote nodes; software defined access networking; Conferences; Decision support systems; Virtualization; Network virtualization; Open API; Software-defined Access Network (SDAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2014 IEEE 11th

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2356-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2014.6940517

Filename

6940517