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The OIF:
A Beacon for
Industry Progress
and Convergence
The Trends
• Users demanding lower cost,
converged and personalized services
• Added complexity in networks,
services, vendors and markets
• Increasing network diversity in:
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Industry standards
Carrier models
Product architectures
The Challenge
• Allow network providers
to manage the
underlying technical
complexity of their
networks
• Support vendor
innovation while:
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Preserving interoperability
Maximizing performance
Minimizing costs
The Goal
Pre-competitive collaboration
leading to:
• Accelerated innovation,
faster time-to-market
• Enhanced intelligence in networks
and devices
• Reliable interoperation
• Reduced risk
• Global access
The Solution
• The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)
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A nonprofit, member-driven collaborative
organization that develops public-domain
interoperability agreements for
telecommunications and data networks
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Carriers
Equipment vendors
Component manufacturers
Enterprise customers
Academics
Government agencies
Benefiting the Industry
and its Customers
• Broad industry participation
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All technology tiers
All market segments
• Accessible memberships
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Principal
Small business
Auditing
Academic
• 90+ member companies
• Contribution-driven, pre-competitive
cooperation to accelerate progress
Founding Member Comment:
“AT&T has a proud history of leadership and innovation
in the Telecommunication industry as demonstrated by
its participation in the OIF. As a founding member of
the OIF we've seen tangible benefits from working with
both service providers and equipment vendors to
create implementation agreements and open
interoperability throughout the industry. The OIF has
influenced the direction of many of the optical
standards which are driving innovative solutions to the
complex networking issues that confront our collective
customers and as such AT&T looks forward to
collaborating with the Forum and its members on future
projects.”
Monica Lazer, AT&T
Roadblocks to Progress
• Proprietary solutions
• Lacking or lagging standards
• Lack of opportunities
for collaboration
OIF Removes
those Roadblocks
• Contributing to formal
standard bodies
• Building industry consensus
• Accelerating progress
through collaboration
OIF Offers a Formal
Process for:
• Presenting new ideas
• Selecting the best ideas
for formal projects
• Managing and monitoring projects
• Proving concepts through
interoperability demos
• Drafting and signing Implementation
Agreements
• Presenting proposals to formal
standards bodies
Guiding-Light Groups
Working Groups that evaluate
potential projects:
• Carrier
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Members: representatives from carriers
Creates: consensus on requirements for new services
and functions
Asks: “Does the industry need this capability?”
• Physical Layer Users Group
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Members: representatives from system vendors
Creates: consensus on requirements for new
interconnects
Asks: “What interconnects will our future systems
need?”
Technical Groups
Working Groups that
forge details of
Implementation
Agreements:
• Physical and
Link Layer
• Architecture
and Signaling
• Operations
Administration,
Maintenance & Provisioning
• Software
Solution Validation
Working Group
Working Group that
demonstrates project
success:
• Interoperability
The OIF Working Groups in Action
Technology Update
Current Networking Projects:
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ASON/GMPLS Signaling Interworking
E-NNI Routing 2.0
E-NNI 2.0 Signaling
Extensions for the Interface Management API
UNI 2.0 (approved as IA Feb 2008)
Current Physical and Link Layer Projects:
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40Gbps Optical Modulation Techniques
Common Electrical Interface - 25Gb (CEI-25)
Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) Modeling
Integrable Tunable Transmitter Assembly – MSA Compliance
Software
• Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly - MSA
• SERDES Framer Interface (SFI-S)
• TFI-5/TDM-P Clause in CEI-P
The Output: Implementation
Agreements
• Formal agreements between OIF
members to adopt a particular
technology
• Detailed technical specifications that
ensure interoperability of compliant
systems
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Free for public download and unlicensed
use
Complementary to the work of formal
standards bodies
The Output: Interoperability
Demonstrations
• Proof of concept based on working
prototypes
• Presented at major industry trade shows
around the world
• An opportunity to clarify and enhance the
details of Implementation Agreements
• Measures of success:
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Requests for more information or quotes for the
demonstrated technology
De facto market adoption
Incorporation in the work of formal standards bodies
Success Story:
Industry-Standard
Chip-to-Chip Interfaces
SFI-4.2
• SerDes to Framer Interface Level 4 Phase 2
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Interface for 10 Gbps applications
Specifies the interconnection between the SerDes
component, FEC process and framer
Enables parallel electrical bus operating significantly
slower than the optical data rate
• Has been highly successful in the market
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Every 300-pin transponder that transports 10 Gbps
data optically uses this electrical interface
Success Story: Paving the
Way for ASON/GMPLS
• ASON/GMPLS defines a distributed control plane that
automates switching across carrier domains
• The OIF was an important enabling force for the ITU’s
ASON and IETF’s GMPLS standards:
Many essential aspects of ASON/GMPLS originated in the
OIF’s Architecture and Signaling Working Group
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Carrier requirements of the OIF’s Carrier Working Group
have set the reference for standardization work
The OIF User Network Interface (UNI) and Network to
Network Interface (NNI) specifications paved the way
These signaling and routing protocols speed service
provisioning and transport across heterogeneous networks.
Collaboration for Innovation
• Mission: To foster the development and
deployment of interoperable products and
services for data switching and routing using
optical networking technologies
• The OIF is the only industry group that brings
together professionals from the data and
optical worlds
• Its 90+ member companies represent the
entire industry ecosystem:
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Carriers and network users
Component and systems vendors
Testing and software companies
Member Companies
• Principal
Members
ADVA AG Optical Networking
Agilent Technologies
Alcatel-Lucent
Altera
AMCC
Analog Devices
Anritsu
AT&T
Avago Technologies
Avanex
Bookham
Booz Allen Hamilton
British Telecom
Broadcom
China Telecom
Ciena Communications
Cisco Systems
ClariPhy Communications
CoreOptics
Cortina Systems
Data Connection
Department of Defense
Deutsche Telekom
Ericsson
Finisar
Flextronics
Member Companies
• Principal
Members
Force 10 Networks
Foxconn
France Telecom
Freescale Semiconductor
Fujitsu
Furukawa Electric Japan
Huawei Technologies
IBM
IDT
Infinera
Intel
IP Infusion
JDSU
KDDI R&D Laboratories
Level 3 Communications
LSI Logic
Marben Products
MergeOptics GmbH
Mintera
MITRE
Mitsubishi Electric
Molex
NEC
NeoPhotonics
Nokia Siemens
Nortel Networks
NTT
Opnext
Member Companies
• Principal
Members
PMC Sierra
Sandia National Laboratories
Santur
Sierra Monolithics
Silicon Logic Engineering
Soapstone Networks
StrataLight Communications
Sycamore Networks
Syntune
Tektronix
Telcordia Technologies
Telecom Italia
Tellabs
Texas Instruments
Time Warner Cable
Tyco Electronics
Verizon
Vitesse Semiconductor
Yokogawa Electric
ZTE
Member Companies
• Auditing
Members
ECI Telecom
Enigma Semiconductor
FiberHome
Telecommunications
Juniper Networks
Kawasaki LSI
Mayo Clinic
Pirelli Broadband Solutions
Telenor
• Academic
Members
Centre Tecnologic de
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Internet2
Stanford University
The OIF: Lighting the Way
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