SDN-Controlled 400GbE end-to-end service using a CFP8 client over a deployed, commercial flexible ROADM system
Lynn E. Nelson, Geyuan Zhang, Narayan Padi, C. Skolnick, Kyle E. Benson, T. Kaylor, S. Iwamatsu, Roman Inderst, Francisco A. Marques, D. Fonseca, M. Du, T. Downs, Torsten Scherer, Chris Cole, Yu Rong Zhou, P. Brooks, A. Schubert · 2017
We demonstrated a 400Gb/s Ethernet end-to-end circuit, inclusive of 400GbE client card with CPF8 interface and dual-carrier 16QAM line-side, on a production 100G core network segment between New York City and Washington DC. During the field trial, we demonstrated the feasibility of SDN-enabled creation, deletion, and re-routing of the 400G service.