Allegro EU Project Introduces OpenSDK for Optical Network Disaggregation at OFC 2024

We’re proud to announce a significant development from our team, presented at OFC 2024:

Filippo Cugini, Davide Scano, Andrea Sgambelluri, Francesco Paolucci, Alessio Giorgetti, and Piero Castoldi,
“Open Software Development Kit (OpenSDK) for Optical Network Disaggregation,” OFC 2024, paper W1C.4.
🔗 Read the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2024.W1C.4

Key Highlights:

  • Introduces OpenSDK, a vendor-agnostic microservice toolkit designed to enable optical network disaggregation.
  • Removes dependency on standard southbound interfaces from SDN controllers, promoting flexibility and multi-vendor interoperability.
  • Demonstrated through smart orchestration on an IP-over-WDM whitebox, showcasing real-world applicability.

This work stands as a milestone in bringing modularity, openness, and agility to the future of optical infrastructure.