Open-Source Service Management for a Fully Disaggregated Optical Network Simulation

Abstract

Fully disaggregated device deployments in optical networks propose to drive down network upgrade costs. These devices are managed by open-source control plane solutions for multi-vendor interoperability, which need to be tested in a simulation environment. We demonstrate a cloud-based solution which deploys 69 OpenROADM-based containerized optical networking elements, thereby simulating a nation-wide fully disaggregated optical transport network. Further, the planning, orchestration, and restoration of optical services can be decoupled from the simulated network, by using Transport Layer Security (TLS) enabled North-Bound REST APIs exposed by OpenDayLight TransportPCE, which is an open-source optical domain controller.