Optical Internetworking Forum

Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is a non-profit, member-driven organization founded in 1998. It promotes the development and deployment of interoperable networking solutions and services through the creation of Implementation Agreements (IAs) for optical networking products, network processing elements, and component technologies.

With 100+ member companies, OIF was the first industry group to unite representatives from data and optical networking disciplines, including many of the world's leading carriers, component manufacturers, and system vendors.

OIF creates benchmarks, performs worldwide interoperability testing, builds market awareness and promotes education for technologies, services and solutions. It provides feedback to worldwide standards organizations to help achieve a set of implementable, interoperable solutions.

The Network Processing Forum merged into OIF in June, 2006. OIF actively supports and extends the work of standards bodies and industry forums with the goal of promoting worldwide compatibility of optical internetworking products.

Read more about Optical Internetworking Forum:  Implementation Agreements, Technical Committee and Working Groups

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