Experimental Demonstration of the BlueSPACE's NFV MANO Framework for the Control of SDM/WDM-Enabled Fronthaul and Packet-Based Transport Networks by Extending the TAPI

Abstract

This paper presents the developed extensions to the NFV MANO framework for the control of SDM/WDM-enabled fronthaul and packet-based backhaul transport networks to deploy NFV network services. We develop a novel hierarchical Transport SDN solution that extends the Transport API.