Overview
This section explains the Routed Optical Networking approach and the main components that enable it. It describes how high-density routers, coherent optics, simplified DWDM line systems, and automation work together in the solution.
Benefits of Routed Optical Networking
Routed Optical Networking
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simplifies complex multilayer networks by collapsing network layers and minimizing the functional overlap
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improves overall network efficiency by optimizing each layer of the network, and
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integrates open data models and standard APIs, enriching powerful automation.
Routed Optical Networking offers improvements and simplification because it
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uses modern optical and routing technologies to converge services over an IP infrastructure connected by a simplified DWDM layer
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merges IP and private line services onto a single unified IP layer
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simplifies end-to-end network architecture
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utilizes a modern software stack that spans across network management and control planes
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improves the capacity and cost efficiency of networks
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has a smaller carbon footprint
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offers unified capacity planning, unified EMS, unified path optimization, orchestration, and assurance
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provides an automation ecosystem with open, programmable, and modular components, and
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provides savings on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across CapEx and OpEx.
Components of Routed Optical Networking
Routed Optical Networking uses these components:
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High-density Cisco routers
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High-capacity ZR or ZR+ pluggable digital coherent optics
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Simplified DWDM line systems
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End-to-end multi-layer automation