2005 OIF 2ND WORLDWIDE INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATION
SUPERCOMM 2005 – June 7-9, 2005 – Chicago, Illinois
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) sponsored the industry’s second international joint-carrier, multi-vendor optical networking interoperability demonstration. The event, conducted simultaneously in China, Japan, Germany, Italy, France and the United States highlighted network interoperable solutions among the participating vendors employing OIF implementation agreements in a multi-carrier environment. The global interoperability event included testing of User Network Interface / UNI 2.0 Ethernet over multiple SONET /SDH transport networks interconnected by control plane External Network-Network-Interfaces / E-NNI.
The following carriers hosted the testing:
AT&T
China Telecom
Deutsche Telekom
France Telecom
NTT Laboratories
Telecom Italia
Verizon
The following vendor companies participated:
Alcatel
Avici Systems
Ciena Corporation
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Fujitsu
Huawei Technologies
Lambda Optical Systems
Lucent Technologies
Mahi Networks
Marconi
Nortel
Sycamore Networks
Tellabs
Press Announcements
June 8, 2005
Carriers Validate OIF World Interoperability Demo
Live Global Test Between Vendors and Carriers Proven Successful
May 11, 2005
OIF Announces Vendor Participants in Worldwide Interoperability Demo
Participants Represent Top Tier Optical Network Vendors
March 31, 2005
Seven Global Carriers to Host Ten-Week OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demo
Most Comprehensive Network Test Ever to Take Place in China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United States
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