Enabling Quality-on-Demand and Service Differentiation on a Novel Network-as-a-Service Platform Using Slicing Technology for Control and Management of Optical Networks

This paper presents a comprehensive Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform designed to enhance the deployment and management of all-optical access and transport networks. We demonstrate our platform with a use-case of cloud-based AR/VR gaming service that requires high bandwidth and ultra-low latency, through the slicing of Passive Optical Network (PON) and optical transport network. Building on our previous work that detailed the overall architecture of our solution and the fine-grain Optical Transport Network (fgOTN) technology, this paper introduces the novel aspect of automated PON slicing, achieving a fully end-to-end solution. Leveraging ETSI F5G and ETSI ZSM standards and integrating with ETSI TeraFlowSDN and ETSI Open-Source MANO (OSM) for orchestration and management, our platform offers a seamless and immersive experience for latency-sensitive applications.