Transcript Alien Wavelengths - TNC16

TNC’16 Session 4D
Alien Wavelengths – from field trials to profitable
services
TNC’16
12 – 16 June 2016
Prague
Goal and Agenda
Why discussing Alien Wavelengths
Agenda
• No common agreement on
what an Alien Wavelength (and
an Alien Wavelength service) is;
• Vendors and operators have
different “feelings” about the
topic;
• Certain trends in the industry
push forward the “open”agenda at all layers;
• 4 speakers
• 1 Vendor
• 1 Commercial and 1 NREN
operator
• GÈANT’s view
• Presenting their view on the
business-aspect of AWs
• What have they learned
• How do they see it applied
• What makes sense for their own
use-case
Setting up the stage
• JRA1 T2 of GN4-1 focused on blue-printing the Alien Wavelength
Service
• Goal:
• To assist the process of prototyping the service and outline the main
challenges that need to be solved.
• Approach:
• Ask the potential users and providers of the service
• Map the capabilities within the GÈANT consortium
• Result:
• Deliverable D13.2 Blueprint of Services and Research Plan for Future Work
• This session, in support of a constructive dialogue on the topic of AWs
Technology readiness map
AW types and use-cases
• The work group defined 3 types of AWs
• Alien Wave type I: “Own alien wave”
• Tunable pluggables
• The AW signal originates from the same
administrative domain
• Alien Wave type II: “Customer’s alien”
• The AW signal originates from another
administrative domain
• Alien Wave type III: “Multi-domain alien”
Covered use-cases in this session
• Bjarke Skjoldtsrup TDC A/S
• Business potentials and practical operational aspects of Alien Wavelength
services (an “Customer’s alien” use-case)
• Per Nihlén Sunet
• SUNETC - Integration of the Optical and the IP layer (an “Own alien wave”
use –case, focusing on the challenge of breaking the traditional business
models of the vendors of equipment)
• Guy Roberts GÈANT
• Alien waves – operational experience (an “Customer’s alien” use-case,
show-casing a production-grade operational model)
• Robert Waegemans ADVA Optical Networking
• Alien Wavelengths, as experienced by a System Consultant from a Vendor
Discussion panel
• Bjarke Skjoldstrup
• Per Nihlén
• Guy Roberts
• Robert Waegemans
• Raimundas Tuminauskas
• Public participation is highly encouraged!!!
Discussion points