First Demonstration of MANTRA IPoWDM Convergent SDN Architecture using SONiC White Box and 400ZR/ZR+ Pluggables

In this work, the MANTRA (Metaverse ready Architectures for Open Transport) "Single" IP over Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoWDM) architecture is implemented and experimentally demonstrated in a network testbed employing three SDN Controllers (IP, Optical and Hierarchical) and Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) white box equipped with 400ZR and 400ZR+ coherent pluggable transceivers.