Introduction: Ciena has teamed up with three research networks to build the industry’s first SDN based carrier-WAN, which will be accessible “on demand” by researchers. The venerable optical network equipment company is working with CANARIE, Internet2 and StarLight on this intriguing research project. Canarie Inc. is Canada’s advanced research network Internet2 is a university consortium that develops advanced networking applications StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility used as a proving ground by both the academic and commercial communities When completed, this network will unite all of the key packet, optical and software building blocks required to demonstrate and prove the optimization and monetization benefits of SDN OpenFlow-enabled, multi-layer WANs. The network will provide a modular carrier-scale software control system that leverages open source components, features high-impact, real-time analytics software which improves optimization and monetization in dynamic service environments. With this network platform, researchers can trial new technologies on a fully operational network without having to build a unique infrastructure for every use case. Ciena’s SDN Vision: Multi-layer Carrier WAN SDN Ciena believes that SDN is key to the next wave of value creation for service providers as it brings network programmability together with powerful new software intelligence capabilities […]
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