Today's telecommunication networks have become sources of enormous amounts of widely
heterogeneous data. This information can be retrieved from network traffic traces, network …

With the rapid development of Internet and communication systems, both in the aspect of
services and technologies, communication networks have been suffering increasing …

Next-generation edge nodes interfacing innovative IT clusters, 5G fronthaul, and internet of
things (IoT) gateways to the optical metro/core network will require advanced and dynamic …

OpenConfig and OpenROADM are emerging as the most relevant initiatives to support
partial disaggregation, in which the optical line system is provided by a single vendor while …

Use of disaggregated equipment in optical transport networks is emerging as an attractive
solution to bring flexibility and break vendor lock-in dependencies. The disaggregation …

Automated fault management is at the forefront of next-generation optical communication
networks. The increase in complexity of modern networks has triggered the need for …

In the last twenty years, optical networks have witnessed recurrent changes in their
management and control architecture. In this paper, we present a historical timeline and a …

Telemetry data acquisition is becoming crucial for efficient detection and timely reaction in
the case of network status changes, such as failures. Streaming telemetry data to many …

Increasing traffic demands are causing network operators to adopt disaggregated and open
networking solutions to better exploit optical transmission capacity, and consequently …

Optical networks offer a wide range of benefits to the telecommunication sector worldwide
with their provision of higher bandwidth, which leads to faster data speed, longer …