Anritsu Corporation, in collaboration with University of Texas, Dallas, (UTD) has showcased the latest network system at Supercomputing Conference 2024 (SC 2024) on November 17 to November 22, 2024, in Atlanta, USA. This system combines OpenROADM for flexible network configuration and IP over dense wavelength division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) for high- capacity transmission, and demonstrates an orchestration system to control the entire network and monitor network quality. Anritsu is contributing to system development focusing on future automatic autonomous network configuration.
The network is controlled by YANG data model developed by OpenROADM MSA and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is promoting internet engineering standards as a vendor-independent control system, managed by UTD orchestration system.
In the exhibition, two Anritsu MT1040As with 400G OpenROADM transceivers will be placed via an OpenROADM system add/drop line. These MT1040A testers provide internet protocol (IP) and optical transport layer quality monitoring data to the orchestration system setting communication channels in a network environment with realistic traffic loads. Consequently, the network system can change network channels and ROADM routes based on quality data.
Meanwhile, UTD OpenLab verifies hardware and software interoperability with open specifications published by OpenROADM MSA, issues verifies labels to devices that pass the interoperability verification.
