A Bioengineering Perspective on Optical Network Openness and Automation

This paper first reviews trends in optical networking and SDN which have consolidated a control and management architecture. Secondly, we take a bioengineering perspective of Universal Architectures and how they fulfil the trade-off: Planning actions that are slow but accurate, centralized and flexible versus Reflex actions that are fast but rigid, automatic and inaccurate. The main part of the paper conciliates the trade-off of such universal architectures in bioengineering with the needs of the telecommunications landscape. We cover network planning and design needs versus operational aspects. Finally, a set of remarks and a specific example are delivered in view of such conciliation for network openness, programmability and automation.