Sterlite partners with TIP for optical transport controller

Sterlite Technologies announced a collaboration with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to create an optical transport controller to manage and control Voyager and Cassini platforms developed by TIP members.

TIP is a collaborative telecom community launched in February 2016 to accelerate the pace of innovation in the telecom industry. The Open Optical and Packet Transport (OOPT) project group is creating open DWDM solutions, models and APIs, covering transponders, open line systems, and routers. This will help accelerate industry standardization of packet optical interfaces and drive adoption of disaggregated transport platforms.

Sterlite Tech, which is developing Programmable Open Disaggregated Solution (PODS) in association with the open community, will collaborate with TIP to create an optical transport controller. This will manage and control the disaggregated optical solutions promoted by TIP, bringing more operating flexibility to network operators and helping them keep costs low.

In addition, Sterlite Tech will build a virtualized application on the controller which will be used to manage the data plane on these platforms. The controller will be open and will be contributed to the TIP community to drive more use cases and bring TIP’s work and optical transport networks together.

PODS leverages open technology to enable programmability at the hardware and software level of radio access networks. Combination of this with TIP’s platforms will make the DWDM architecture more affordable, improve customer experience and create excellence in technology.

On Tuesday, Sterlite Tech was trading at Rs. 221.70 per share, down 1.49 per cent on the BSE.