Optical Internetworking Forum - Technical Committee and Working Groups

Technical Committee and Working Groups

OIF sponsors a Technical Committee and a Market Awareness and Education Committee (MA&E). The MA&E Committee is responsible for the educational and marketing activities of the OIF. The Technical Committee essentially produces IAs out of the following working groups:

• The Architecture and Signaling Working Group develops IAs related to architecture and signaling from service provider requirements.

• The Carrier Working Group assembles functional requirements and guidelines for optical networking products.

• The Interoperability Working Group defines IA testing methodologies, carries out proofs of concept, evaluates multi-vendor interoperability and contributes technical leadership for interoperability trials. Test criteria are extracted from IAs. Test methods are defined with support of the source technical working group.

• The Operations, Administration, Maintenance, & Provisioning working group focuses on deployment issues. The scope includes but is not limited to a) planning, engineering and provisioning of network resources; b) operations, maintenance or administration use cases and processes; and c) management functionality and interfaces for operations support systems and interoperable network equipment. Within its scope are Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security Management (FCAPS) and Security.

• The OIF Physical and Link Layer Working Group develops Implementation Agreements related to physical and data link layer interfaces between Optical Internetworking elements and between their internal components.

• The OIF Physical Layer User Working Group develops requirements and guidelines for components, modules, subsystems and communication links thus providing common direction to the vendor community and other OIF working groups.