{"draft":"draft-ietf-ccamp-flexible-grid-ospf-ext-09","doc_id":"RFC8363","title":"GMPLS OSPF-TE Extensions in Support of Flexi-Grid Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Networks","authors":["X. Zhang","H. Zheng","R. Casellas","O. Gonzalez de Dios","D. Ceccarelli"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"17","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Common Control and Measurement Plane","abstract":"The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication\r\nstandardization sector (ITU-T) has extended its Recommendations\r\nG.694.1 and G.872 to include a new Dense Wavelength Division\r\nMultiplexing (DWDM) grid by defining channel spacings, a set of\r\nnominal central frequencies, and the concept of the \"frequency slot\".\r\nCorresponding techniques for data-plane connections are known as\r\n\"flexi-grid\".\r\n\r\nBased on the characteristics of flexi-grid defined in G.694.1 and in\r\nRFCs 7698 and 7699, this document describes the Open Shortest Path\r\nFirst - Traffic Engineering (OSPF-TE) extensions in support of GMPLS\r\ncontrol of networks that include devices that use the new flexible\r\noptical grid.","pub_date":"May 2018","keywords":["flexi-grid","OSPF-TE","central frequency","frequency slot","channel spacing"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8363","errata_url":null}