An OIF Overview
ITU All Star Network Access workshop
June 2004, Geneva
John McDonough V.P. OIF
OIF Overview
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Launched in April of 1998 with an objective to foster
development of low-cost and scaleable internet using optical
technologies
The only industry group bringing together professionals from the
data and optical worlds
Open forum: 170+ member companies
• International
• Carriers
• Component and systems vendors
• Testing and software companies
Our Mission
To foster the development and deployment of interoperable
products and services for data switching and routing using
optical networking technologies
OIF Focus
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Low-cost Scaleable Optical Internetworking
• IP-Over-Switched Optical Network Architecture
• Physical layer
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Control layer interoperability between data and optical layers
• Dynamic configuration using IP signaling and control
mechanisms
Accommodate legacy network under the new physical and
control layer mechanisms
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Low-cost optical interfaces between networking elements
Standard device level electrical interfaces for low-cost systems
Output from OIF
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Develop implementation agreements using
• Carrier group’s requirements as input
• Existing standards and specifications when available
• Developing new when necessary
Develop interoperability testing procedure to ensure
compliance and ultimately interoperable products and
networks
Provide input into other standards bodies
OIF Directors & Officers
Directors
Joe Berthold, Ciena
President
John McDonough, Cisco
Vice President
Tom Afferton, AT&T
Treasurer/ Secretary
Marco Carugi, Nortel
Board Member
Tom Palkert, Xilinx
Board Member
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon
Board Member
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia
Board Member
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Technical Committee
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Steve Joiner, Bookham Technologies
Chair
MA&E Committee
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John D’Ambrosia, Tyco
Chair
OIF and Standards Bodies
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Established Liaisons With:
• American National Standards Institute - ANSI T1
• International Telecommunications Union - ITU-T
• Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF
• ATM Forum
• IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gb Ethernet
• Network Processing Forum - NPF
• Metro Ethernet Forum – MEF
• Rapid I/O
• Tele Management Forum – TMF
• XFP MSA Group
Technical Committee
Six Working Groups
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Architecture & Signaling
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Carrier
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Interoperability testing
Physical and Link Layer
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Network management
Interoperability
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Requirements and applications
OAM&P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning)
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Services, network requirements and architectures
Protocols for automatic setup of lightpaths
Equipment and subsystem module interfaces
PLUG (Physical Layer User Group )
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Guidelines for components, modules, subsystems and communication links
Implementation Agreements
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Electrical Interfaces
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OIF-SPI3-01.0 - SPI-3 Packet Interface for Physical and Link Layers for OC-48.
OIF-SFI4-01.0 - Proposal for a common electrical interface between SONET
framer and serializer/deserializer parts for OC-192 interfaces.
OIF-SFI4-02.0 - SERDES Framer Interface Level 4 (SFI-4) Phase 2:
Implementation Agreement for 10Gb/s Interface for Physical Layer Devices.
OIF-SPI4-01.0 - System Physical Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 1: A System
Interface for Interconnection Between Physical and Link Layer, or Peer-to-Peer
Entities Operating at an OC-192 Rate (10 Gb/s).
OIF-SPI4-02.01 - System Packet Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 2: OC-192
System Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices.
OIF-SPI5-01.1 - System Packet Interface Level 5 (SPI-5) : OC-768 System
Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices.
OIF-SFI5-01.0 - Serdes Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5): 40Gb/s Interface for
Physical Layer Devices.
OIF-SxI5-01.0 - System Interface Level 5 (SxI-5): Common Electrical
Characteristics for 2.488 - 3.125Gbps Parallel Interfaces.
OIF-TFI5-01.0 - TDM Fabric to Framer Interface (TFI5)
Implementation Agreements
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Tunable Lasers
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OIF-TL-01.1 - Implementation Agreement for Common Software Protocol,
Control Syntax, and Physical (Electrical and Mechanical) Interfaces for
Tunable Laser Modules.
OIF-TLMSA-01.0 - Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers.
Very Short Reach Interface
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OIF-VSR4-01.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for Parallel Optics.
VSR4-02 (OC-192 Very Short Reach Interface, 1 fiber 1310nm)
Note: VSR4-02 has been included as the 4dB link option in VSR4-05 below
OIF-VSR4-03.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Four Fiber Interface Based on
Parallel Optics.
OIF-VSR4-04.0 - Serial Shortwave Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for
Multimode Fiber.
OIF-VSR4-05.0 - Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface Using 1310
Wavelength and 4 and 11 dB Link Budgets.
OIF-VSR5-01.0 - Very Short Reach Interface Level 5 (VSR-5): SONET/SDH OC768 Interface for Very Short Reach (VSR) Applications.
Implementation Agreements
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UNI – NNI
• OIF-UNI-01.0 - User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0 Signaling
Specification.
• OIF-UNI-01.0-R2 - User Network Interface (UNI) 1.0 Signaling
Specification, Release 2: Common Part
• OIF-CDR-01.0 - Call Detail Records for OIF UNI 1.0 Billing.
• OIF-SEP-01.1 - Security Extension for UNI and NNI
• OIF-SMI-01.0 - Security Management Interfaces to Network
Elements
• OIF-E-NNI-Sig-01.0 - Intra-Carrier E-NNI Signaling Specification
OIF World Interoperability Demo
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7 participating carrier labs around the world:
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15 participating vendors
Testing based on OIF UNI 1.0 release 2 and ENNI Implementation Agreements, both
control and data plane
These implementation agreements are based on the ITU’s requirements for
automatically switched optical networks G.8080, G.807
Based on ITU-T standards for Ethernet service adaptation, Ethernet over SONET/SDH
services testing includes:
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China, Germany, Italy, Japan and USA
Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) G.7041
Virtual Concatenation (VCAT)
Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) G.7042
World Interoperability Demonstration public observation:
SUPERCOMM 2004 (June 22-24, Chicago)
OIF Booth #20334, Hall A
ITU representation at OIF Supercomm booth through Power Point slides and posters