Experimental Demonstration of Multi-vendor and Multi-domain Elastic Optical Network with data and control interoperability over a Pan-European Test-bed

The operation of multi-domain and multi-vendor EONs can be achieved by interoperable Sliceable Bandwidth Variable Transponders, a GMPLS / BGP-LS-based control plane and a planning tool. This paper reports the first full demonstration and validation this end-to-end architecture.