Optical Internetworking Forum

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The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation optical internetworking products. The OIF produces Electrical, Tunable Laser, Very Short Reach Hardware Interfaces. It also has produced a UNI and NNI software interface Interoperability Agreements. These agreements enable equipment manufacturers to lower their time to market and development cost by enabling a robust, multi-vendor ecosystem. It also lowers the total cost of ownership of systems based on their interoperability agreements by enabling investments in test and verification infrastructure as well as enabling competition.

Contents 1 Organizational Form of the OIF 2 Interoperability Agreements 2.1 Hardware Interface Interoperability Agreements 2.2 Optical Interface Interoperability Agreements 2.3 Software Interoperability Agreements 3 Merger 4 Liaison Relationships 5 External References

[edit] Organizational Form of the OIF

The OIF is a member-managed non-profit corporation and functions as a contribution-driven, parliamentary industry forum.

[edit] Interoperability Agreements

[edit] Hardware Interface Interoperability Agreements

• Common Electrical Interface (CEI)
• Common Electrical Interface Protocol (CEI-P)
• System Packet Interface (SPI) - including SPI-3, SPI-4.1, SPI-4.2, SPI-5, and SPI-S
• Serdes-Framer Interface (SFI) - including SFI4.1, SFI4.2, and SFI-5
• System Interface (SxI)
• TDM Fabric to Framer (TFI) interface - including TFI-5

[edit] Optical Interface Interoperability Agreements

• The Tunable Laser (TL) optical interfaces
• Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers (TLMSA)
• Integratable Tunable Laser Assembly Multi-Source Agreement (ITLA-MSA)
• Very Short Reach (VSR) optical interfaces
• Long Reach Interoperability (LR)

[edit] Software Interoperability Agreements

• User-Network Interface Signalling Specification (UNI)
• Inter-Carrier Network Network Interface Signalling Specification (E-NNI)
• Security Extension (SEP)
• Security Management Interfaces to Network Elements (SMI)
• Call Detail Records (CDR)

[edit] Merger

The Network Processing Forum merged into the OIF in June, 2006.

[edit] Liaison Relationships

The OIF has active liaison relationships with several other industry consortia including the ITU-T, IEEE 802, the Metro Ethernet Forum, ATIS, the Rapid I/O TA, Road to 100G, and the Mountain View Alliance.

[edit] External References

• OIF Home Page
• OIF Interoperability Agreements
• WDM Blog Daily updates on the business and technology of wavelength division multiplexing