{"id":8498,"date":"2012-11-29T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:17:05","slug":"optical-sdn-gets-a-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8498","title":{"rendered":"Optical SDN Gets a Test Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Building an OTS boils down to adding two things to an optical transport box: a virtual switch and the software hooks to receive commands from <strong>OpenFlow<\/strong> or some similar protocol. Infinera outfitted its gear accordingly, and ESnet provided a home-built <strong>SDN controller<\/strong> to talk to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=227472&amp;\">Optical SDN Gets a Test Run &#8211; Optical Networking &#8211; Telecom News Analysis &#8211; Light Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The OTS used in the tests is nowhere near commercial viability, both sides tell <em>Light Reading<\/em>. The software doesn&#8217;t have <strong>operational niceties such as alarms<\/strong> or debugging tools, for instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OTS=Optical Transport Switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building an OTS boils down to adding two things to an optical transport box: a virtual switch and the software hooks to receive commands from OpenFlow or some similar protocol. Infinera outfitted its gear accordingly, and ESnet provided a home-built &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[687,196,997,853],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-openflow","tag-optical-networks","tag-ots","tag-sdn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8499,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}