SDN Solutions for Virtualizing Fiber Layer Connectivity

Software control of the physical fiber layer is becoming increasingly important. With the demands of new applications on telecom and data center networks, fiber resources need to be flexible, scalable and dynamic so that bandwidth can be allocated on demand when, and to where, it is needed most. At OFC 2016, Polatis CEO Gerald Wesel talks with Light Reading Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre about their new industry-leading, SDN-enabled optical circuit switch.