Vishnu Shukla, Principal Technologist, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
Jonathan Sadler, OIF Board Member and Networking Interoperability Working Group Chair
The trigger point for significant commercial deployments of transport SDN may depend on defining, testing and assuring interoperability of key network functions and interfaces.
In the 2016 OIF SDN Transport API Interoperability Demonstration, the OIF and ONF partnered to lead the industry toward the wide-scale deployment of commercial SDN by testing ONF T-API standards.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- How the interoperability test and demonstration, managed by the OIF, addressed multi-layer and multi-domain environments in global carrier labs located in Asia, Europe and North America
- What T-API modules and uses cases were tested
- What was learned and the next steps
- The benefits of T-API and interop testing – from a carrier's perspective
Sterling Perrin, Principal Analyst – Optical Networking & Transport, Heavy Reading
Sterling has more than 15 years' experience in telecommunications as an industry analyst and journalist. His coverage area at Heavy Reading is optical networking, including packet-optical transport. He also authors Heavy Reading's Packet-Enabled Optical Networking Market Tracker and Next-Gen Core Packet-Optical Market Tracker. Sterling joined Heavy Reading after five years at IDC, where he served as lead optical networks analyst, responsible for the firm's optical networking subscription research and custom consulting activities. Prior to IDC, Sterling worked for Standard & Poor's, where he delivered global industry analysis on a range of IT segments. He is a former journalist and editor at Telecommunications Magazine, and has also done consulting work for the research firm Current Analysis. Sterling is a frequent speaker at telecom industry events and a highly sought-after source among the business and trade press.
Vishnu Shukla, Principal Technologist, Verizon, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair
Vishnu Shukla has more than 30 years of experience in optical network design and development, technology transfer and overall technology planning. His current responsibilities include development of the next-generation network architecture, analyzing the current state-of-the-art technology trends and developments and evaluation of its strategic impact on Verizon. He founded and leads Verizon Interoperability Forum, which facilitates early introduction of strategic technologies and services in the network. Vishnu contributes to Verizon's participation in multi-disciplined standards concerning leading edge technologies. He was the President and on the board of directors at the Optical Networking Forum and is an active member of the ONF.
Dr. Shukla is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of Optical Society of America (OSA). He has been the OFC Technical Program Co-Chair (2011-2012) and General Chair (2013-2014).
Jonathan Sadler, OIF Board Member and Networking Interoperability Working Group Chair
Jonathan Sadler has more than 25 years of data communications experience as a protocol implementer, network element designer, carrier network operations manager and carrier network planner. He brings a broad set of knowledge and experiences to the design and analysis of carrier network technology. Currently, Jonathan is involved in developing technologies to efficiently transport packet-oriented services in Carrier Networks. He is an OIF Board Member and Networking Interoperability Working Group Chair, and an active participant in the ITU and ONF.
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