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To: jghutchison who wrote (9399)	7/31/2000 11:50:05 AM
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Good news on the standards front. Ciena is a member of ODSI. It looks like Nortel and Lucent will not be able to force their proposed standard on the telecom community. Article courtesy of Pat Mudge. JGH Optical-to-IP signaling spec near completion By Loring Wirbel EE Times (07/28/00, 11:19 a.m. EST) SAN FRANCISCO — The Optical Domain Service Interconnect (ODSI) coalition fulfilled the bulk of an ambitious agenda this week, finalizing most of a document for optical-to-Internet-Protocol interworking, except for a signaling spec. ODSI members will work to combine elements of signaling proposals from Redback Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lucent Technologies Inc. (North Andover, Mass.) and plan to have a unified document placed on an ODSI e-mail exploder within three weeks' time. Amy Copley, an ODSI representative from Sycamore Networks Inc. (Chelmsford, Mass.), said that unless there are serious reservations about the merged signaling document, ODSI could have a completed suite of interface specs ready for the National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference, which will be held in Denver at the end of August. Copley said that the Lucent signaling proposal, based on an Optical Gateway Protocol, most closely resembles the User Network Interface spec for asynchronous transfer mode networks and may be a familiar spec with which to work. The Redback proposal, however, allows more information to pass between network nodes. The ODSI team's job will be to piece together the best of both proposals. ODSI will dispense with a formal fall meeting and will hold interoperability testing at the headquarters of Valiant Networks Inc. in San Jose, Calif., using test equipment provided by Agilent Technologies Inc. At the next formal meeting in early 2001, the coalition will decide on which, if any, additional specs to work on, or will declare the interoperability work complete. Finished specs include interoperability with the Common Open Policy Server architecture; protocol elements including address registration and service discovery; and a management information base for use with network management systems. An overarching functional spec is essentially finished, though the completion of the signaling spec may lead to slight changes in the functional spec document. Copley said that Sycamore will wait for a final merged signaling document before developing any code for its switching products, but that many vendors may choose to begin work now on ODSI-compatible interface code. The documents from the meeting will be posted to www.odsi-coalition.com.