ADVA Optical Networking, along with Juniper Networks and HEAnet, has successfully showed the automated configuration of optical circuits between the routers of Juniper Networks through a Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) of ADVA Optical Networking by utilizing a common signaling method.
The HEAnet network comprises ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 DWDM device and Juniper Networks’ MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers. A common GMPLS control plane is used in the network to connect all the devices. HEAnet provided end-to-end circuits for routers via the optical network by utilizing the control plane.
The control plane allows the initiating router to detect, store and construct an optical circuit throughout the optical network without manual interference. As the traffic rate is swiftly increasing in both central and metro networks, majority of network operators are now configuring networks using optical-transport systems and integrated packet-layer routers to develop a multi- layer packet-transport system.
The multi- layer packet-transport system offers superior flexibility of traffic management at every network layer, resulting in enhanced performance, efficacy, expandability and network utilization. The system allows instant intelligent packet services. The advanced GMPLS control plane enables the incorporation of the transport and packet layers. Such integration enables the packet layer to request connections throughout the transport layers without user interference.
Source: http://www.advaoptical.com