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ORGANIZATIONAL FORM OF THE OIF

The OIF is a member-managed non-profit corporation and functions as a contribution-driven, parliamentary industry forum.

INTEROPERABILITY AGREEMENTS


Hardware Interface Interoperability Agreements

  • Common Electrical Interface (CEI)

  • Common Electrical Interface Protocol (CEI-P)

  • System Packet Interface (SPI) - including SPI-3 , SPI-4.1, SPI-4.2 , and SPI-5

  • Serdes-Framer Interface (SFI) - including SFI4.1, SFI4.2, and SFI-5

  • System Interface (SxI)

  • TDM Fabric to Framer (TFI) interface - including TFI-5



Optical Interface Interoperability Agreements

  • The Tunable Laser (TL) optical interfaces

  • Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers (TLMSA)

  • Integratable Tunable Laser Assembly Multi-Source Agreement (ITLA-MSA)

  • Very Short Reach (VSR) optical interfaces

  • Long Reach Interoperability (LR)



Software Interoperability Agreements

  • User Network Interface Signalling Specification (UNI)

  • Inter-Carrier Network Network Interface Signalling Specification (E-NNI)

  • Security Extension (SEP)

  • Security Management Interfaces to Network Elements (SMI)

  • Call Detail Records (CDR)




LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS

The OIF has active liaison relationships with several other industry consortia including the ITU , the NPF , and the Mountain View Alliance .


EXTERNAL REFERENCES

  • [http://www.oiforum.com/ OIF Home Page]

  • [http://www.oiforum.com/public/impagreements.html OIF Interoperability Agreements]

  • WDM Blog Daily updates on the business and technology of wavelength division multiplexing