Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. says it is the first to implement Multi-Domain Optical Network Services (MDONS) within the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) Frankfurt release. The Linux Foundation, Orange, and other global service providers collaborated on the effort, says the company.
As the name implies, MDONS aims to extends ONAP-based orchestration into the optical networking domain. It is engineered to enable network operators to design, orchestrate, and automate Optical Transport Network (OTN) services across service provider networks. The implementation leverages elements from Open ROADM, the ONF Transport API (TAPI), and MEF standards and enables multi-vendor, multi-domain operation. The MDONS open APIs to SDN controllers deliver multi-vendor service activation and provisioning. MDONS will enable operators to create enhanced service offerings and customized applications leveraging network automation at the optical layer, says Fujitsu.
“In the past, service providers relied on a complex negotiation of manual processes for even the most basic inter-connections between network domains,” explained Rod Naphan, head of the technology business unit at Fujitsu Network Communication. “By leveraging ONAP and open APIs, our customers can now automatically orchestrate and provision optical services across multiple domains, resulting in faster service turn up and reduced operating expenses.”
“Network automation is a strong business requirement. We fundamentally believe open-source collaboration is the best way to respond to this complex prerequisite,” said Olivier Augizeau, network automation project manager at Orange. “The latest Frankfurt release of the ONAP platform paves the way to improve the footprint of optical connectivity services with cross carrier scenarios.”
“We are encouraged by the success of the ONAP members working together to advance the platform with new use cases, enhancements, commercial deployments and adoptions in the latest release, Frankfurt,” added Arpit Joshipura, general manager, networking, Edge & IoT, at The Linux Foundation. “As a valued LFN member vendor with extensive optical expertise, Fujitsu’s participation in initiating the MDONS blueprint is an important part of the overall team efforts to enhance the ONAP framework.”
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