Welcome to gnpy’s documentation!

gnpy is an open-source, community-developed library for building route planning and optimization tools in real-world mesh optical networks.

gnpy is:

  • a sponsored project of the OOPT/PSE working group of the Telecom Infra Project.
  • fully community-driven, fully open source library
  • driven by a consortium of operators, vendors, and academic researchers
  • intended for rapid development of production-grade route planning tools
  • easily extensible to include custom network elements
  • performant to the scale of real-world mesh optical networks

Documentation

The following pages are meant to describe specific implementation details and modeling assumptions behind gnpy.

Indices and tables

Contributors in alphabetical order

Name Surname Affiliation Contact
Alessio Ferrari Politecnico di Torino alessio.ferrari@polito.it
Anders Lindgren Telia Company Anders.X.Lindgren@teliacompany.com
Andrea d’Amico Politecnico di Torino andrea.damico@polito.it
Brian Taylor Facebook briantaylor@fb.com
David Boertjes Ciena dboertje@ciena.com
Diego Landa Facebook dlanda@fb.com
Esther Le Rouzic Orange esther.lerouzic@orange.com
Gabriele Galimberti Cisco ggalimbe@cisco.com
Gert Grammel Juniper Networks ggrammel@juniper.net
Gilad Goldfarb Facebook giladg@fb.com
James Powell Telecom Infra Project james.powell@telecominfraproject.com
Jan Kundrát Telecom Infra Project jan.kundrat@telecominfraproject.com
Jeanluc Augé Orange jeanluc.auge@orange.com
Jonas Mårtensson RISE Research Sweden jonas.martensson@ri.se
Mattia Cantono Politecnico di Torino mattia.cantono@polito.it
Miguel Garrich University Catalunya miquel.garrich@upct.es
Raj Nagarajan Lumentum raj.nagarajan@lumentum.com
Roberts Miculens Lattelecom roberts.miculens@lattelecom.lv
Shengxiang | Zhu University of Arizona szhu@email.arizona.edu
Stefan Melin Telia Company Stefan.Melin@teliacompany.com
Vittorio Curri Politecnico di Torino vittorio.curri@polito.it
Xufeng Liu Jabil xufeng_liu@jabil.com

  • Goal is to build an end-to-end simulation environment which defines the network models of the optical device transfer functions and their parameters. This environment will provide validation of the optical performance requirements for the TIP OLS building blocks.
  • The model may be approximate or complete depending on the network complexity. Each model shall be validated against the proposed network scenario.
  • The environment must be able to process network models from multiple vendors, and also allow users to pick any implementation in an open source framework.
  • The PSE will influence and benefit from the innovation of the DTC, API, and OLS working groups.
  • The PSE represents a step along the journey towards multi-layer optimization.