Alcatel-Lucent set to add virtualized multi-layer IP and optical solutions expertise
Telecom vendor Alcatel-Lucent this week joined the Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project, which is focused on developing scalable software-defined networking solutions for telecom operators.
Alcatel-Lucent joins the ON.Lab organization with an expected focus on virtualized multi-layer IP and optical solutions. The vendor joins ON.Lab’s founding members AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC.
“By committing engineering resources and becoming an active participant of ONOS, we will be in a much better position to contribute our carrier SDN knowledge and experience to open source initiatives, and will benefit from collaboration across the broader network vendor and service provider communities,” explained Steve Vogelsang, CTO for Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Routing and Transport business.
ON.Lab recently scored a significant deployment win as European-based GEANT said it’s using the platform for its testbed network. GEANT, which is a collaboration of European national research and education organizations, said it’s using the Inter Cluster ONOS Network Application to help “define, build, test and rebuild highly scalable, high-capacity virtual networks quickly, easily and cost-effectively. The platform was developed by the Center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Networked Communities and the University of Rome Tor Vergata/CNIT to manage communications between geographically distributed ONOS clusters.
ON.Lab last month announced a partnership with the Linux Foundation designed to boost open source-based work targeting SDN and network functions virtualization. The partnership is said to focus on creating SDN solutions tapping open source software platforms, white boxes, network control and management applications to boost the creation and deployment of SDN platforms.
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