FEATURE: PHOTONIC INTEGRATION
BESIDES OCP, THERE ARE SEVERAL ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO DEFINE AND ENABLE INTERFACES TO ADD VALUE TO A COMMON PLATFORM
manageability, security and system initialisation, and should embrace emerging interfaces that extend the useful life of the base design. Besides OCP, there are several organisations working to define and enable new interfaces that would add value to a common platorm.’ When it comes to soſtware, the hyperscale
providers tend to have their own solutions for remotely managing IT equipment, which they can evolve as their needs change. Private cloud providers such as large enterprise and telecom, on the other hand, are generally reliant on the availability of the intelligent platorm management interface, or toolsets provided by the equipment OEM. ‘Te gap between hyperscale capabilities and
non-hyperscale has grown disproportionately,’ said Carter. ’An interoperable systems management framework available from all suppliers is needed.’ One area where the industry is working
and volunteer leadership identified more than 15 opportunities where an open source community (such as OCP) can accelerate solutions for key verticals, such as hyperscale, large enterprises, telco and edge. Last month, with new technical leaders on board, we reconfirmed our top priorities.’ Tese priorities come in light of the
transformation journey the cloud industry has been experiencing for around 10 years, which has seen the disaggregation of switch gear and server hardware enabling the adoption of open source and white box hardware solutions. ‘We have seen tremendous breakthroughs
in efficiency and scale from the larger infrastructure builders who are innovating in the industry,’ said Carter. ’Te transformation has also highlighted a need for “operationally similar” compute platorms where the physical, logical and programming interfaces remain consistent, while supporting the latest technologies. A similar example would be common peripheral interfaces and physical form factors.’
To scale Using a common platorm approach in this way, believes Carter, can provide scalable, efficient designs for all adopters, but is particularly well- suited for telecom operators, who benefit from
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using the kind of technology developed by some of the world’s largest service providers. Carter said: ‘Te common platorm
concept would ideally support modularity, standardisation of hardware management and security, and open system firmware. Looking ahead, a common platorm should also define
toward interoperability is the components market, and Christian Urricariet, senior director of product marketing, enterprise solutions at II-VI, believes that the data centre has been a factor in the development of coherent technology. ‘Coherent interconnects between data centres, and also all kinds of core and
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