ORCHESTRA- Optical performance monitoring enabling flexible networking
01 January 2015
An optical network, like any system, has to be observable before it can become subject to optimization, and this is the main capability that ORCHESTRA introduces. ORCHESTRA's high observability will rely on information provided by the coherent transceivers that can be extended, almost for free, to operate as software-defined optical performance monitors. Novel DSP OPM algorithms will be developed and combined with a novel hierarchical monitoring plane, cross-layer optimization algorithms and active-control functionalities. ORCHESTRA proposes to close the control loop, enabling true network dynamicity and unprecedented network capacity efficiency.
