[CAnet - news] RFP for next generation ROADM network for CANARIE & ORANO

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[Optical equipment vendors from around the world are invited to a Request
for Proposals issued jointly by CANARIE and ORANO (Ontario Regional Optical
Advanced Network Organization) to deploy a next generation ROADM network
across southern Ontario with possible extensions to Montreal, Albany and New
York City as well as from Windsor to Chicago.

The purpose of this network is to test and develop new and novel optical
network architectures and business models for next generation networks as
well as provide high bandwidth lightpaths for various eScience applications.

Recently CANARIE, ORANO, NYSERnet in New York and MICHnet in Michigan signed
a multi-party MOU to enable bandwidth swapping between our respective
optical networks.  This will allow the respective networks and their
institutions to inexpensively build private optical networks that extend
many hundreds of miles beyond their own network territories.  As well,
through this RFP, institutions and individuals will be encouraged to do
their own wavelength insertion and extraction with remote ROADM terminals
located on their campuses.  As much as possible we want to minimize active
electronics and equipment in the core of the network and encourage control
and management of individual lightpaths by institutions or users at the edge
of the network.

Given that their will be many independent organizations with their own
wavelengths and/or lightpaths across the infrastructure a UCLP-like (or
Y.1312/Y.1313) type of management system will be essential.

For more information on this RFP please see:

http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/rfp8.html

--BSA]



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