The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) approved a new Security Extension for the User-to-Network Interface (UNI) and Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) Implementation Agreement (IA). The implementation agreement defines a common set of security mechanisms to protect the signaling and routing of optical connections. The mechanisms, which leverage the IETF’s IPsec standard, safeguard transport networks against attacks that may compromise their control planes, seek unauthorized use of their resources or attempt to gain unauthorized information about their configuration and usage.
In other news, the OIF announced that Marco Carugi of Nortel Networks and Vishnu Shukla of Verizon were appointed to the Forum’s board of directors. Shukla joins Tom Afferton of AT&T as the second carrier member on the OIF’s board of directors.
