Vodafone SDN-Based Optical Trial Taps Facebook Voyager Platform

The trial, which was deemed a success, ran on a live network in Spain. It used a Voyager device running a network operating system (OS) from Cumulus Networks, Zeetta Networks’ NetOS Software Defined Network orchestration, and architecture help from ADVA Optical Networking. The test was implemented over an existing optical infrastructure and showed the ability to handle real-time dynamics using Voyager and an SDN controller. Specific results from the trial included SDN-based optical performance to 200 Gb/s; SDN-based optical real-time monitoring with automatic modulation adaptation from 200 Gb/s to 100 Gb/s; and the upgrade of a legacy 10 Gb/s-based system with four 200 Gb/s wavelengths for a total of 800 Gb/s of extra capacity.