Datacenter operators and internet content providers require optical network programmability to efficiently interconnect distributed datacenters. This paper describes the requirements, applications and use cases for optical network programmability. Based on application scenarios, open northbound APIs with different levels of control and abstraction to address different network operator requirements which are defined. For their illustration, use cases for optical network programmability show current research directions.
@article{arxiv.1801.09563,
title = {Optical Network Programmability - Requirements and Applications},
author = {Achim Autenrieth and Jörg Peter Elbers and Thomas Szyrkowiec and Pawel Kaczmarek and Wolfgang Kellerer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09563},
year = {2018}
}
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n.608528, project STRAUSS (www.ict-strauss.eu), and the H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreeement n.645127, project ACINO (www.acino.eu)