An SDN Control Plane for Multiband Networks Exploiting a PLI-aware Routing Engine
Ramon Casellas, Evangelos A. Kosmatos, Andrew Lord, Chris Matrakidis, Ricardo Martínez, Dimitris Uzunidis, Ricard Vilalta, Alexandros Stavdas, Raül Muñoz · 2022
We report the design of a TAPI SDN control plane for multi-band networks with externalized PLI-aware RMSA. We detail the architecture, data model extensions, algorithms and the implementation and validation in an emulated BT 22-ROADM network.