September 16, 2024 – Fujitsu has announced Virtuora® OLS-Designer, a new intelligent network tool designed for planning and designing open optical networks. Leveraging machine learning, OLS-Designer creates digital twin models from real-time optical network data, aiming to accelerate, simplify, and optimize multivendor network planning, design, and testing processes.
The tool addresses the increasing trend of disaggregated optical network infrastructure, where components from various vendors are combined. Current planning and design tools often struggle with these multivendor setups, leading to reliance on manual field measurements. This complicates network development, slows progress, and can result in static network models and underutilized network capacity.
Virtuora OLS-Designer, slated for release in early 2025 as part of Virtuora PD, builds a digital twin of the optical line system using live data, transponder configurations, and ROADM topology details. It facilitates intelligent network planning with assessments of transponder reachability and provides optimal modulation format and data rate suggestions for maximizing network performance and scalability. The tool’s machine learning capabilities continuously refine the accuracy of OLS network designs. Fujitsu states that this eliminates the need for manual calculations, thereby reducing operational costs and speeding up service delivery with maximum capacity.
Rod Naphan, senior vice president and head of the photonics systems business unit at Fujitsu, emphasized the company’s history in open networking and its commitment to providing service providers with the solutions needed to fully utilize open optical OLS architectures. He stated that Virtuora OLS-Designer uses digital twin models and machine learning to streamline OLS network planning and deployment, reduce operational costs, maximize network capacity, and accelerate service delivery to the market.
Fujitsu will be showcasing Virtuora OLS-Designer at the ECOC Exhibition 2024 in Frankfurt from September 23-25, and at SCTE TechExpo24 in Atlanta from September 24-26.
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