OpenDaylight Summit 2016

In Korea, wired telecommunications carriers have been using assorted transport technologies with diverse network appliances. In order to reduce CAPEX and to avoid vendor lock-in, these transport networks are often comprised of multi-vendor and multi-domain equipment, which leads to high complexity and incompatibility. To overcome this obstacle, research organizations and local telecommunications carriers have been investigating and analyzing the feasibility of transport SDN technology. This talk dishes on the latest trend in Korea telecommunications carriers and the status of their transport SDN technology.