Telefonica I+D and Infinera Collaborate to Demonstrate Network-as-a-Service Using SDN
February 27 2014 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Telefonica I+D and Infinera Collaborate to Demonstrate
Network-as-a-Service Using SDN
SUNNYVALE, CA and MADRID, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Feb 27, 2014) -
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of Intelligent Transport
Networks™, and Telefónica (NYSE: TEF), a leading Tier-1 network
operator, announced today the successful demonstration of
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) in a multi-layer environment using a
software defined networking (SDN) approach. The collaboration
highlighted the power of an open SDN approach and how it can
unleash the innovation of a carrier like Telefónica.
As a first step in the collaboration, Telefónica developed its
own multi-layer IETF-based Application Based Network Operations
(ABNO) controller which included the path computation functions to
control both the IP/MPLS layer as well as the Infinera transport
layer. Telefónica was then able to rapidly integrate their ABNO
controller with Infinera's programmable SDN Open Transport Switch
(OTS) running in conjunction with Infinera's Intelligent Transport
Network platforms leveraging both the OpenFlow protocol and
Infinera's RESTful application programming interface (API).
Telefónica also integrated the ABNO controller with a brand name
router to support multi-layer integration. In aggregate, this SDN
demonstration allowed end users to define MPLS services from a
single screen, resulting in the dynamic allocation and
configuration of associated networking resources at both the
IP/MPLS layer and the transport layer. With the speed and
automation NaaS delivers, service providers can deploy services
faster, more efficiently, and at lower cost.
Specifically this demonstration illustrated:
- How SDN can allow service providers like Telefónica to unleash
their creativity and innovation to develop new multi-layer services
rapidly and free from the constraints of proprietary operating
systems and traditional element management systems.
- An SDN control framework based on IETF's ABNO proposal and its
ability to be implemented to support the orchestration and
provisioning of services across a multi-vendor, multi-layer IP/MPLS
and optical transport network.
- A working prototype controller developed by Telefónica using
multi-layer PCE for networking Layers 1 and 3, demonstrating how
SDN technologies and a logically centralized control plane approach
can help realize dynamic NaaS capabilities on carrier
backbones.
- Infinera's Open Transport Switch, a lightweight Web 2.0
software construct that abstracts and virtualizes the underlying
transport network resources so they can be easily programmed via a
controller. The purpose-built design of OTS for SDN solutions is to
enable rapid innovation, in contrast to other transport solutions
that repurpose large and heavyweight Element Management Systems
(EMS) in their SDN implementations.
- NaaS and its ability to enable network operators to offer
user-initiated connectivity services to multiple customers on top
of a common physical infrastructure, empowering the customer to
request bandwidth services as needed, without manual
intervention.
"This demonstration with Infinera is the type of research and
development that puts us on the forefront of testing new
technologies that continually reduce deployment time, the number of
manual operations, and deliver more dynamic connections on our
network," said Víctor López, responsible for SDN transport
innovation activities in Telefónica I+D/GCTO.
"By working closely with the advanced research center at
Telefónica I+D we are able to keep our finger on the pulse of
network operator requirements for next-generation transport
networks," said Chris Liou, vice president, network strategy at
Infinera. "These Network-as-a-Service demonstrations highlight an
application for software defined networks that is gaining traction
with global carriers."
Infinera and Telefonica I+D will showcase this demonstration at
the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara March 3-5th in booth
#704.
About Infinera Infinera provides Intelligent Transport Networks
to help carriers exploit the increasing demand for cloud-based
services and data center connectivity as they advance into the
Terabit Era. Infinera is unique in its use of breakthrough
semiconductor technology to deliver large scale Photonic Integrated
Circuit (PICs) and the application of PICs to vertically integrated
optical networking solutions that deliver the industry's only
commercially available 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels.
Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solutions include the DTN-X,
DTN and ATN platforms. Learn more at www.infinera.com.
About Telefónica I+D Telefónica I+D, the research and
development company of the Telefónica Group, is founded in 1988 and
its mission is to contribute to the Group´s competitiveness and
modernity through technological innovation. With this aim, the
company applies new ideas, concepts and practices in addition to
developing products and advanced services.
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, among other things, statements relating to
Infinera's product offerings and future development
plans. These forward looking statements are based on our
current expectations. Actual results may vary materially from
these expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties.
Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks
and uncertainties that affect our business, is contained in the
risk factors section and other sections of our annual report on
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March 5, 2013, as well subsequent reports filed with or furnished
to the SEC. These reports are available on our website at
www.infinera.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Infinera
assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update
any such forward-looking statements.
Contacts: Infinera Media: Anna Vue Tel. +1
(916) 595-8157 avue@infinera.com Infinera Investors: Leigh
Salvo Tel. +1 (408) 543-8139 lsalvo@infinera.com
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