CALIENT Technologies/ADARA Networks SDN Transport Packet Optical Integration Solution

The joint CALIENT/ADARA solution de-risks the deployment of software-defined network (SDN) Transport Packet Optical Integration (POI) architectures by enabling incremental deployments and accelerates SDN adoption in heterogeneous optical environments' while being vendor and technology agnostic. Deploying ADARA's packet switches and SDN controller and CALIENT's optical circuit switches (OCS) at the edges of MAN/WAN networks and between network and vendor domain boundaries enables service providers and data center operators to virtualize and control all of the disparate resources in their optical transport networks. The CALIENT/ADARA SDN Transport POI Solution delivers dynamic light-path provisioning over the WAN. ADARA's SDN controller and packet switches with Dynamic Link State Protocol (DLSP) provide a real-time performance and policy-based path computation capability to direct packets over the packet layer and optical layer paths. These features reduce opex and capex transparently in heterogeneous environments, deliver near-zero latency for critical services, and eliminate vendor lock-in.