One of the main features of 5G networks is the coordinated orchestration of both information
technology (IT) and connectivity resources. This enables the deployment of a flexible and …

The future Internet is driven by applications that require simultaneous access to multiple
heterogeneous IT resources interconnected by high-speed optical network. Current …

A broker on top of opaquely-managed optical domains advertising their capabilities is
proposed to provision multi-AS connections in multi-operator scenarios. In case of no …

Optical foundation suppliers and system administrators with another design are used to
improve their conventional business activities toward a genuine start to finish cloud item …

The paper describes a literature overview of the main building blocks of service level
agreement based architectures over priority-aware shared mesh optical networks. The …

Integrating transponders enabling higher capacity and implementing the latest transmission
technologies is a frequent process in the life-cycle of operational optical network in order to …

OFC-final-draft 15 Page 1 SIP-based Service Platform for On-demand Optical Network
Services B. Martini1, A. Campi2, F. Baroncelli1, V. Martini3, K. Torkman3, F. Zangheri2, W …

Optical networks are growing at unprecedented rates to accommodate the explosion in data
traffic brought on by new Internet and enterprise applications. Coupled with this growth has …

Carriers, as well as industry, are moving towards intelligent transmission networks by adding
the capability of dynamically requesting bandwidth from a multivendor network. This …

This article challenges the emerging industry trend of adapting Internet-style distributed
network-control with its full complexity for the optical transport network. Instead, we argue …