Cisco is among the vendors that have tossed their hats into the ring for the Telecom Infra Project’s Phoenix project.
The Phoenix project, which is a subset of the Telecom Infra Project’s open optical and packet transport (OOPT) group, is working to create open disaggregated hardware and software solutions by forging an ecosystem of hardware and software vendors.
The Phoenix project has the weight of prominent service providers, including Vodafone, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Telia, MTN, and NTT, behind it. The technical specification for Phoenix “is based on an efficient design for metro, core, and data center interconnection (DCI) applications, and is especially well-suited for service providers (MNOs and ISPs) and content providers,” according to TIP.
