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Coriant to Participate in OIF SDN Transport Interoperability DemonstrationCoriant (News - Alert), a global supplier of metro-to-core packet optical networking solutions, today announced it will showcase multi-vendor, multi-layer interworking using the Coriant Transcend™ SDN Transport Controller and Coriant® hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform in a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Transport Application Programming Interface (T-API) interoperability demonstration in the fall of 2016. Coriant will partner with industry-leading carriers and networking vendors as part of the global interoperability event. "We are excited to take part in this global interoperability initiative as the industry takes a significant step forward toward realizing the operator and end-user value of SDN in real-world operational environments," said Stefan Voll, Vice President of Product Management, Optical and NMS, Coriant. "The validation of these open APIs lays the foundation for a new breed of applications and services powered by advanced SDN programmability and automation." Global Carrier participants hosting the interoperability testing include China Telecom, China Unicom, SKT, Telefónica, and Verizon (News - Alert). p> 2016 OIF SDN Transport API Interoperability DemonstrationThe OIF (News - Alert) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) are partnering to lead the industry toward the wide scale deployment of commercial SDN by testing key Transport Application Programming Interfaces (T-API). The interoperability test and demonstration, managed by the OIF, will address multi-layer and multi-domain environments in global carrier labs. The testing builds on the 2014 demo which was based on prototype T-APIs and helped advance transport SDN standardization. Additional use cases based upon the API standards will be clarified during the testing and defined through OIF implementation agreements to provide a common set of requirements. Regional demonstration read-out events will take place in early 2017 and a whitepaper will be available to the public. Additional information can be found at http://www.oiforum.com/meetings-and-events/2016-oif-sdn-t-api-demo/.
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