Optical transport to open transport in carrier networks

Network traffic, dominated by data and video flows, is growing unabated. This is exacerbated by dynamic and shifting traffic patterns of mobile and cloud-based services. Today's static, manual optical transport networks are not optimized to meet customer needs for flexible, on-demand services. This situation challenges transport network operators and the supplier ecosystem to improve the network's ability to dynamically adapt to the needs of applications and services (residing mostly in data centers); i.e. make the network more programmable and increase network efficiency and agility.