Are you looking for an agile, economical way to add alien wavelength services over a legacy OLS network and effectively manage an expanding brownfield network? Maybe you’re consolidating element management systems post-merger or acquisition, and need a little help?
I’m Denise Provencher, here for an open dialogue about how optical orchestration can help.
Optical orchestration unifies control & topology in brownfield networks
Optical orchestration unifies both control and topology across a multivendor, multidomain network, and solves the particular challenges of managing open and legacy line systems. Unifying control and topology is the most efficient approach, since a unified network makes operations simpler in general, and it’s a huge benefit in two key areas of a complex brownfield scenario.
End-to-end fault monitoring speeds troubleshooting
First, you can easily add and support alien wavelength services over a legacy open line system, enabling economical, just-in-time brownfield expansion. Optical orchestration provides end-to-end fault monitoring, which speeds the process of identifying and troubleshooting service disruptions in open line systems and in multivendor, multitechnology networks.
Consolidating management systems is a critical enabler of open line systems
Second, you can consolidate all element management systems across optical domains – core, regional, and long-haul – and across all the vendors in those domains. Being able to flexibly onboard multivendor network element plugins and element management system adaptors is a critical enabler of Open Line Systems (OLS).
Cross-domain service lifecycle management simplifies OLS implementation
In addition to these benefits, cross-domain service lifecycle management for Layer 0 and Layer 1 helps simplify OLS implementation.
Open, programmable networks – the heart of network transformation
Open, programmable networks have been at the heart of network transformation for the last 15 years. At Fujitsu, we’ve had open networking solutions in production for many years. In fact, we’ve worked with customers and their Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization (SDN/NFV) projects for over a decade.
Helping service providers get better results with AI-optimized design & planning
In addition to optical orchestration, we also help service providers get better results with network design and planning. For example, using AI/ML, we can model and predict optical performance, assess reachability, and identify the best possible paths and modulation schemes.
Promising opportunities for improving brownfield network management
Fujitsu optical orchestration and planning and design solutions help providers grow services efficiently, avoid vendor lock-in, and deliver service to customers faster.
We think optical orchestration is an exciting development that offers service providers promising opportunities to optimize and simplify network operations. Talk to us about your brownfield optical scenario. Let’s keep the open dialogue going.