Title :
Implementing SDN controlled flexible optical transport at AT&T, the next steps
Author :
Esfandiari, Mehran
Author_Institution :
AT&T Corp, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. An overall view of AT&T´s SDN based optical transport target architecture, role of flexible and feature rich network elements, SDN driven use cases to enable multi-layer packet/optical network in serving cloud applications, and practical & real implementation in the near term.
Keywords :
cloud computing; passive optical networks; software defined networking; AT&T SDN based optical transport target architecture; SDN controlled flexible optical transport; cloud applications; feature rich network elements; flexible rich network elements; multilayer optical network; multilayer packet network; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
