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OIF Wraps Q1 2021 Member Meeting with New Co-Packaging Project; 3.2T Co-Packaged Module Project for Intra Data Center Switching ApplicationsHighlights from OIF's first member meeting of the year include a new co-packaging project launch, an industry talk from Vladimir Kozlov, founder and CEO, LightCounting and a joint workshop with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Mandatory Use Case Requirements for SDN for Transport (MUST) project. Additionally, members elected a new Networking & Operations Working Group Chair following the meeting. The Q121 Technical and MA&E Committees Meeting was held virtually February 22-26.
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"This 3.2T Co-Packaging project builds on OIF's 20+ year successful track record to anticipate and address the industry's needs," said Jeff Hutchins, Ranovus and OIF Physical and Link Layer Working Group, Co-Packaging Vice Chair. "With its broad membership from across the eco-system, OIF is well positioned to create unified host, module and control specifications." "The industry has clealy articulated the need for a standardized co-packaged solution to address data center power constraints, and further, to enable new network architectures and applications," said Mark Filer, Microsoft (News - Alert) Principal Hardware Engineer and OIF Board Member. "The 3.2T Co-Packaged Optical Module project is a concrete step toward that goal, and OIF is uniquely qualified to rapidly execute on the implementation agreement in order to meet the market needs." GUEST SPEAKER The meeting's guest speaker, Kozlov, provided attendees with an overview of the market for Ethernet and DWDM optics such as "ZR optics" for DCI applications, including trends, forecasts and expected changes in the supplier landscape. "Transition from pluggable to co-packaged optics is a radical change for the industry, but there is no other way to support future bandwidth requirements of Mega Datacenters and AI clusters," said Kozlov. TIP MUST WORKSHOP Members of the OIF Networking Interoperability Working Group and TIP MUST project held a joint workshop. The members agreed to explore potential projects to further define, validate and implement transport SDN technologies in open, disaggregated open optical networks. This work will leverage the TIP MUST reference architecture and use cases as well as the experience and findings of the successful OIF 2020 Transport SDN API Interoperability Demonstration. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Members elected Jia He, Huawei (News - Alert) Technologies., Ltd., as the new Networking & Operations Working Group Chair.
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