Autonomous Equalization of Independent Open ROADMs via NETCONF Protocol
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ambrosone, Renato; D'Ingillo, Rocco; Borraccini, Giacomo; Straullu, Stefano; D'Amico, Andrea; Virgillito, Emanuele; Giorgetti, Alessio; Curri, Vittorio
- Source
- 2023 23rd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2023 23rd International Conference on. :1-4 Jul, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Optical fiber amplifiers
Integrated optics
Protocols
Stimulated emission
Optical attenuators
Optical distortion
Optical fiber networks
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-2064
The ongoing opening of optical network infrastructures is progressively favoring their automation in terms of maintenance and optimization. A proof-of-concept for the autonomous equalization of independent open reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADM)s via network configuration protocol (NETCONF) is provided in this work. The code has been developed in order to prove the feasibility of a software defined network (SDN) framework, formatting and parsing extensible markup language (XML) requests sent via NETCONF to the ROADMs. In addition, representational state transfer (REST) endpoints are exposed providing power level measurements for each deployed connection. It is shown that the developed interface is capable to set the multiplexer attenuation values in order to equalize all the channels composing the propagating spectrum.