An OIF OverviewITU All Star Network Access workshop

June 2004, GenevaJohn McDonough V.P. OIF

Launched in April of 1998 with an objective to foster development of low-cost and scaleable internet using optical technologies

The only industry group bringing together professionals from the data and optical worlds

Open forum: 170+ member companies• International • Carriers• Component and systems vendors• Testing and software companies

Our MissionTo foster the development and deployment of interoperable products and services for data switching and routing using optical networking technologies

OIF Overview

OIF Focus

Low-cost Scaleable Optical Internetworking• IP-Over-Switched Optical Network Architecture• Physical layer

• Low-cost optical interfaces between networking elements• Standard device level electrical interfaces for low-cost systems

• Control layer interoperability between data and optical layers

• Dynamic configuration using IP signaling and control mechanisms

Accommodate legacy network under the new physical and control layer mechanisms

Output from OIF

Develop implementation agreements using• Carrier group’s requirements as input• Existing standards and specifications when

available • Developing new when necessary

Develop interoperability testing procedure to ensure compliance and ultimately interoperable products and networks

Provide input into other standards bodies

OIF Directors & Officers

Directors Joe Berthold, Ciena

PresidentJohn McDonough, Cisco

Vice PresidentTom Afferton, AT&T

Treasurer/ SecretaryMarco Carugi, Nortel

Board MemberTom Palkert, Xilinx

Board MemberVishnu Shukla, Verizon

Board MemberDoug Zuckerman, Telcordia

Board Member

MA&E Committee John D’Ambrosia, Tyco

Chair

Technical Committee Steve Joiner, Bookham Technologies Chair

OIF and Standards Bodies

Established Liaisons With:• American National Standards Institute - ANSI T1• International Telecommunications Union - ITU-T• Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF • ATM Forum• IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gb Ethernet• Network Processing Forum - NPF• Metro Ethernet Forum – MEF• Rapid I/O• Tele Management Forum – TMF• XFP MSA Group

Technical Committee Six Working Groups

Architecture & Signaling• Services, network requirements and architectures• Protocols for automatic setup of lightpaths

Carrier• Requirements and applications

OAM&P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning)• Network management

Interoperability• Interoperability testing

Physical and Link Layer• Equipment and subsystem module interfaces

PLUG (Physical Layer User Group )• Guidelines for components, modules, subsystems and communication

links

Implementation Agreements Electrical Interfaces

• OIF-SPI3-01.0 - SPI-3 Packet Interface for Physical and Link Layers for OC-48.

• OIF-SFI4-01.0 - Proposal for a common electrical interface between SONET framer and serializer/deserializer parts for OC-192 interfaces.

• OIF-SFI4-02.0 - SERDES Framer Interface Level 4 (SFI-4) Phase 2: Implementation Agreement for 10Gb/s Interface for Physical Layer Devices.

• OIF-SPI4-01.0 - System Physical Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 1: A System Interface for Interconnection Between Physical and Link Layer, or Peer-to-Peer Entities Operating at an OC-192 Rate (10 Gb/s).

• OIF-SPI4-02.01 - System Packet Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 2: OC-192 System Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices.

• OIF-SPI5-01.1 - System Packet Interface Level 5 (SPI-5) : OC-768 System Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices.

• OIF-SFI5-01.0 - Serdes Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5): 40Gb/s Interface for Physical Layer Devices.

• OIF-SxI5-01.0 - System Interface Level 5 (SxI-5): Common Electrical Characteristics for 2.488 - 3.125Gbps Parallel Interfaces.

• OIF-TFI5-01.0 - TDM Fabric to Framer Interface (TFI5)

Implementation Agreements Tunable Lasers

• OIF-TL-01.1 - Implementation Agreement for Common Software Protocol, Control Syntax, and Physical (Electrical and Mechanical) Interfaces for Tunable Laser Modules.

• OIF-TLMSA-01.0 - Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers.

Very Short Reach Interface• OIF-VSR4-01.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for

Parallel Optics. • VSR4-02 (OC-192 Very Short Reach Interface, 1 fiber 1310nm)

Note: VSR4-02 has been included as the 4dB link option in VSR4-05 below

• OIF-VSR4-03.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Four Fiber Interface Based on Parallel Optics.

• OIF-VSR4-04.0 - Serial Shortwave Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for Multimode Fiber.

• OIF-VSR4-05.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface Using 1310 Wavelength and 4 and 11 dB Link Budgets.

• OIF-VSR5-01.0 - Very Short Reach Interface Level 5 (VSR-5): SONET/SDH OC-768 Interface for Very Short Reach (VSR) Applications.

Implementation Agreements

UNI – NNI• OIF-UNI-01.0 - User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0

Signaling Specification. • OIF-UNI-01.0-R2 - User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0

Signaling Specification, Release 2: Common Part • OIF-CDR-01.0 - Call Detail Records for OIF UNI 1.0

Billing. • OIF-SEP-01.1 - Security Extension for UNI and NNI • OIF-SMI-01.0 - Security Management Interfaces to

Network Elements • OIF-E-NNI-Sig-01.0 - Intra-Carrier E-NNI Signaling

Specification

7 participating carrier labs around the world:• China, Germany, Italy, Japan and USA

15 participating vendors

Testing based on OIF UNI 1.0 release 2 and ENNI Implementation Agreements, both control and data plane

These implementation agreements are based on the ITU’s requirements for automatically switched optical networks G.8080, G.807

Based on ITU-T standards for Ethernet service adaptation, Ethernet over SONET/SDH services testing includes:

• Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) G.7041• Virtual Concatenation (VCAT)• Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) G.7042

World Interoperability Demonstration public observation:SUPERCOMM 2004 (June 22-24, Chicago)

OIF Booth #20334, Hall A

ITU representation at OIF Supercomm booth through Power Point slides and posters

OIF World Interoperability Demo