Frankfurt, Germany: Vigilance can report that Huawei showcased key SoftCOM achievements and solutions capable of being applied to all fields of carrier networks at the recently held SDN & OpenFlow world congress, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the transport field the communications giant demonstrated its transport SDN prototype running the virtual transport service platform and showed how Network on Demand (NoD) services are provided on the prototype.
A source at Huawei said the prototype was another breakthrough for Huawei after the transport SDN controller prototype launched last year.
The source revealed that in the information explosion era, optical transport networks had become the foundation of bearer networks, adding that on the one hand, carriers are eager to deploy value-added services efficiently and flexibly to yield better returns from transport networks and expect higher network resource utilization to reduce the transport cost per bit.
Vigilance learnt that to satisfy these needs, Huawei launched the SDN virtual transport service solution based on the Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture.
It was gathered the virtual transport service platform could provide users with multiple modeled virtual topologies through programmable interfaces to meet on-demand virtual network service (such as NoD service) user requirements in real time and with network programmable and virtual technologies, the platform helped carriers provide customized services and deploy value-added services efficiently and flexibly, in addition to the built-in intelligent Transport Path Engine (TPE) algorithm ensures dynamic network resource optimization and helps carriers increase network throughput and reliability.
The Huawei source further revealed that SoftCOM is a future-oriented end-to-end ICT network architecture based on concepts such as cloud computing, SDN, NFV, and network openness, saying it will help carriers tackle the challenges posed by ICT integration and seize new market opportunities.