- An experimental testbed called ADRENALINE is evaluating software-defined optical transmission and SDN/GMPLS networking.
- The testbed includes a programmable OFDM transponder for software-defined optical transmission, a 4-node mesh network with fiber links of varying lengths, and emulation of SDN/OpenFlow and GMPLS control planes.
- Experiments are exploring flexible-grid optical networks using OFDM, all-optical OSNR estimation, and a sliceable bitrate-variable transponder as a building block for future software-defined optical networks.