MAX upgraded its core optical research infrastructure by deploying a six-node DWDM mesh network based on the Fujitsu Flashwave 9500 platform. This new network deployment has several interesting capabilities and feature sets which would be of great value to researchers including:
- 100 Gb/s per lambda transport waves (Ethernet, OTU4 client access ports)
- 44 lambdas per physical fiber capability
- True all-optical ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer) switched infrastructure
- 10 Gb/s Multi-Technology (Ethernet, SONET, OTN) client access ports
- Advanced control plane features for path computation, cross-connect establishment, dynamic dissemination of topology information, and virtualization of resources.
- Transponders with tunable wavelength capabilities
- Ability to accept true all-optical hand-off from clients or other networks. This is often referred to as “alien waves”, and means that there is no optical-electrical-optical conversion at the network demarcation point
- 50 ms protection switching capability
MAX’s Current Research Initiatives
- GENI and OpenFlow Infrastructure
- MAX GENI Aggregate Manager Development in Collaboration with ISI
- Collaborative Research on Optical Layer Virtualization and 4D Control Plane with GWU and UVA
- 100G Research Network Upgrade and Testing
- 100G Connectivity to the JHU NSF-Funded Data Scope Management
- Dynamic Network Systems (DYNES)
- Mid-Atlantic Research Cloud (MARC)
