Huawei unveiled its Transport Innovation Platform (TIP) service during this week's Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC).
The TIP service uses Huawei's ONOS-based open source controller to enable services such as data center interconnections (DCIs) and bandwidth-on-demand. Huawei says that the TIP platform converges ICT programming capabilities in the northbound area of the controller by designing and encapsulating bottom-layer interfaces and basic programming capabilities. It also includes a transport service engine.
By using templates, TIP can reduce barriers to programming innovation so that operators or third parties can implement new services -- as well as design, develop, deploy and maintain customized transport services -- at a faster rate.
TIP also works with third-party components and service templates, which Huawei said would open up joint innovation in the transport network ecosystem.
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has worked with Telefónica SA (NYSE: TEF) and Sedona Systems to demonstrate a multi-vendor, multi-domain interconnection. Huawei's transport-SDN controller provides open northbound APIs for integration with Telefónica and Sedona Systems devices. (See Telefónica Lays Claim to Transport SDN First.)
Huawei is also providing the IP controllers and devices to Telefonica's multi-vendor interconnection synergy demonstration.
— Mike Robuck, editor, Telco Transformation