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China Mobile will start scale SPTN pilots in September

Updated:2015/9/10 13:40

At the recently held 17th China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), Wang Lei, the deputy director of the Internet Institute of China Mobile Research Institute and manager of the Transport and Access Network Research Office, said that China Mobile will start scale SPTN pilots in 9+2 provinces in September.

Wang Lei said, since China Mobile released White Paper about SPTN in November 2013, it released the first self-developed SPTN prototype in February 2014; the operator demonstrated the first SPTN experimental system in Shanghai MAE in June and established the first SPTN Pilot Management Department in Guangzhou in August and issued SPTN enterprise bidding in December. In March 2015, China Mobile led the interoperability tests of SPTN controller and application platforms from multi vendors. In September, China Mobile will officially start scale SPTN pilots in 9+2 provinces.

Multi-vendor interoperability tests have been conducted

According to Wang Lei, China Mobile SPTN lab has built the entire SPTN platform, including the lower forward equipment, the upper controller and APP, which can achieve rapid open of services from end to end, self-management of customer service bandwidth and real-time visualization of traffic data and SLA.

In this lab, China Mobile coordinated with Huawei, FiberHome, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell and other enterprises and conducted SPTN interoperability tests on different equipment, and the tests got good results.

On this achievement, Wang Lei said, in order to realize interoperability on SPTN equipment from different vendors, China Mobile carried out in-depth cooperation with these enterprises at the beginning of proposing the SPTN standards, and got together the R&D personnel at regular intervals for discussion in the China Mobile SPTN lab, which ensured the interoperability of various SPTN equipment from the beginning.

In addition, China Mobile also strongly promoted setting and establishment of the SPTN standards with international standards organizations; it developed super controller and APP of self-owned intellectual property, and developed API ports fit with the standard specification for equipment development in each enterprise, it also provides complete test platform for the functional verification of each module.

SPTN maintains the original OSS function and operation/maintenance habits to achieve smooth upgrades

At present, there are over 1 million PTN equipment in China Mobile’s existing network, how to make full use of the PTN equipment rather than be abandoned after obtain of the SPTN will no doubt be the focused problem of China Mobile.

According to Wang Lei, China Mobile will go through two stages after introduction of the SPTN, the first priority is to achieve compatible operation with the existing network, and then to support openflow. In addition, the newly added SPTN control surface will be independent from the management surface and maintain the original OSS function and operation and maintenance habits, therefore achieving smooth upgrades of the existing network.

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