An Implementation Agreement (IA) document contains a set of normative specifications for some electrical, optical, mechanical, protocol, or software interface referenced to build interoperable hardware, software, or systems.
- Towards 400G/1T
- Co-Packaging
- Coherent
- Management Interface Specifications
- Protocol
- Electrical Interfaces
- Very Short Reach Interface
- Optical Transponder Interoperability
- Tunable Laser
- Physical Layer User Group
- Networking
- NPF Implementation Agreements (Benchmarking, Hardware, Software)
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Informative documents are not Implementation Agreements. They may contain information which is either related to currently published Implementation Agreements or a precursor to future Implementation Agreements. Examples of informative documents include Technical White Papers, Requirement Documents, Framework Documents, and Errata Documents.
Co-Packaging
- OIF-ELSFP-02.0 – External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) Implementation Agreement (January 2025)
- OIF-ELSFP-01.0 – External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) Implementation Agreement (August 2023)
- OIF-Co-Packaging-3.2T-Module-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for a 3.2Tb/s Co-Packaged (CPO) Module (March 2023)
- OIF-Co-Packaging-FD-01.0 – Co-Packaging Framework Document (February 2022)
Click here to access Informative Documents
Informative documents are not Implementation Agreements. They may contain information which is either related to currently published Implementation Agreements or a precursor to future Implementation Agreements. Examples of informative documents include Technical White Papers, Requirement Documents, Framework Documents, and Errata Documents.
Coherent
- 800G
- OIF-800ZR-01.0 – Implementation Agreement 800ZR (October 2024)
- 400G
- OIF-400ZR-03.0 – Implementation Agreement 400ZR (October 2024)
- OIF-400ZR-02.0 – Implementation Agreement 400ZR (November 2022)
- OIF-400ZR-01.0 – Implementation Agreement 400ZR (March 2020)
- 100G
- Transmitter/Receiver
- Transmitter
- OIF-HB-CDM-02.0 – Implementation Agreement for High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (July 2021)
- OIF-HBPMQ-TX-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for High Bandwidth Integrated Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Modulators (January 2017)
- OIF-PMQ-MTX-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Modulated Transmitters for Metro Applications (September 2015)
- OIF-PMQ-TX-01.2 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Modulated Transmitters (May 2015)
- OIF-PMQ-TX-01.1 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Modulated Transmitters (August 2013)
- Receiver
- OIF-DPC-MRX-02.0 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Dual Polarization Micro-Intradyne Coherent Receivers (June 2017)
- OIF-DPC-MRX-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Dual Polarization Micro-Intradyne Coherent Receivers (March 2015)
- OIF-DPC-RX-01.2 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Dual Polarization Intradyne Coherent Receivers (November 2013)
- OIF-DPC-RX-01.1 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Dual Polarization Intradyne Coherent Receivers (September 2011)
- Modules
- OIF-CFP2-DCO-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Digital Coherent Optics Module (October 2018)
- OIF-CFP2-ACO-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Analogue Coherent Optics Module (January 2016)
- OIF-COM-ACO-1.0 – Implementation Agreement for Common Analog Coherent Optics (ACO) Electrical I/O (May 2018)
- OIF-MSA-100GLH-EM-02.1 – Multisource Agreement for Generation 2.0 100G Long-Haul DWDM Transmission Module – Electromechanical (March 2015)
- OIF-MSA-100GLH-EM-01.1 – Multisource Agreement for 100G Long-Haul DWDM Transmission Module – Electromechanical (September 2011)
Management Interface Specifications
- OIF-CMIS-05-Errata-01.0 – Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) Errata and Corrigenda for CMIS 5.x Revision 1.0 (February 2025)
- OIF-CMIS-05.3 – Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) Revision 5.3 (September 2024)
- OIF-CMIS-05.2 – Common Management Interface Specification (CMIS) Revision 5.2 (April 2022)
- OIF-CMIS-VCS-01.0 – CMIS Versatile Control Set (CMIS-VCS) (January 2025)
- OIF-CMIS-FF-01.0 – Formfactor Specific Hardware Management CMIS-FF Implementation Agreement (September 2024)
- OIF-ELSFP-CMIS-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) CMIS (September 2024)
Protocol
- OIF-FLEXE-02.2 – FlexE 2.2 Implementation Agreement (October 2021)
- OIF-FLEXE-02.1 – Flex Ethernet 2.1 Implementation Agreement (July 2019)
- OIF-FLEXE-ND-01.0 – FlexE Neighbor Discovery Implementation Agreement (September 2018)
- OIF-FLEXE-02.0 – Flex Ethernet 2.0 Implementation Agreement (June 2018)
- OIF-FLEXE-01.1 – Flex Ethernet Implementation Agreement (June 2017)
- OIF-FLEXE-01.0 – Flex Ethernet Implementation Agreement (March 2016)
- OIF-MLG-03.0 – Multi-link Gearbox Implementation Agreement (March 2016)
- OIF-MLG-02.0 – Multi-link Gearbox Implementation Agreement (April 2013)
- OIF-MLG-01.0 – Multi-link Gearbox Implementation Agreement (May 2012)
- OIF-OFP-01.0 – OTN Over Packet Fabric Protocol (OFP) Implementation Agreement (November 2011)
Electrical Interfaces
- OIF-CEI-05.2 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps, 56G+ bps and 112G+ bps I/O (January 2024)
- OIF-CEI-05.1 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability Agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps, 56G+ bps and 112G+ bps I/O (December 2022)
- OIF-CEI-05.0 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability Agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps, 56G+ bps and 112G+ bps I/O (May 2022)
- OIF-CEI-04.0 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability Agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps and 56G+ bps I/O (December 2017)
- OIF-CEI-03.1 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps I/O (February 2014)
- OIF-CEI-03.0 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps I/O (September 2011)
- OIF-CEI-P-02.0 – Common Electrical I/O – Protocol (CEI-P) Implementation Agreement (March 2008)
- OIF-SFI4-02.0 – SERDES Framer Interface Level 4 (SFI-4.2) Phase 2: Implementation Agreement for 10Gb/s Interface for Physical Layer Devices (September 2002)
- OIF-SFI5-02.0 – Serdes Framer Interface Level 5 Phase 2 (SFI-5.2): Implementation Agreement for 40Gb/s Interface for Physical Layer Devices (October 2006)
- OIF-SFI-S-01.0 – Scalable Serdes Framer Interface (SFI-S): Implementation Agreement for Interfaces Beyond 40G for Physical Layer Devices (November 2008)
- OIF-SLA-01.0 – Serial Look Aside Interface Implementation Agreement (December 2007)
- OIF-SPI3-01.0 – SPI-3 Packet Interface for Physical and Link Layers for OC-48 (June 2000)
- OIF-SPI4-02.01 – System Packet Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 2: OC-192 System Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices (October 2003)
- OIF-SPI5-01.1 – System Packet Interface Level 5 (SPI-5) : OC-768 System Interface for Physical and Link Layer Devices (September 2002)
- OIF-SPI-S-01.0 – Scalable System Packet Interface Implementation Agreement: System Packet Interface Capable of Operating as an Adaptation Layer for Serial Data Links (November 2006)
- OIF-SxI5-01.0 – System Interface Level 5 (SxI-5): Common Electrical Characteristics for 2.488 – 3.125Gbps Parallel Interfaces (October 2002)
- OIF-TDM-P-01.0 – TDM System Interface Protocol (April 2006)
- OIF-TFI5-01.0-TDM Fabric to Framer Interface (TFI5) (September 2003)
Very Short Reach Interface
- OIF-VSR4-01.0 – Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for Parallel Optics (December 2000) Note: VSR4-02 has been included as the 4dB link option in VSR4-05 below
- OIF-VSR4-03.1 – Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Four Fiber Interface Based on Parallel Optics (July 2003)
- OIF-VSR4-04.0 – Serial Shortwave Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface for Multimode Fiber (January 2001)
- OIF-VSR4-05.0 – Very Short Reach (VSR) OC-192 Interface Using 1310 Wavelength and 4 and 11 dB Link Budgets (October 2002)
- OIF-VSR5-01.0 – Very Short Reach Interface Level 5 (VSR-5): SONET/SDN OC-768 Interface for Very Short Reach (VSR) Application (September 2002)
Optical Transponder Interoperability
Tunable Laser
- OIF-MicroITLA-01.1 – Micro Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (July 2015)
- OIF-ITLA-MSA-01.3 – Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly Multi Source Agreement (July 2015)
- OIF-ITTA-MSA-01.0 – Integrable Tunable Transmitter Assembly Multi Source Agreement (November 2008)
- OIF-TLMSA-01.0 – Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers (May 2003)
- OIF-TL-01.1 – Implementation Agreement for Common Software Protocol, Control Syntax, and Physical (Electrical and Mechanical) Interfaces for Tunable Laser Modules (November 2002)
Physical Layer User Group
Networking
- OIF-INT-SDN-01.0 – Requirements for Integrated Packet Optical SDN (May 2020)
- OIF-VTNS-01.0 – Virtual Transport Network Services Specification (April 2017)
- OIF-ND-IA-01.0 – Neighbor Discovery Implementation Agreement (August 2015)
- OIF-ENNI-RSVP-02.3 – OTN Amendment to E-NNI 2.0 – RSVP-TE Signaling (includes Recovery and Multilayer Amendments) (May 2014)
- OIF-ENNI-OSPF-02.3 – OTNv3 Amendment to E-NNI 2.0 OSPFv2-based Routing (includes Recovery and Multilayer Amendments) (May 2014)
- OIF-ENNI-OTNv3-AM-01.0 – OTNv3 Amendment to OIF UNI 2.0 and E-NNI 2.0/2.1 Common Part (May 2014)
- OIF-UNI-02.0-R2-RSVP-OTNv3 – User Network Interface (UNI) 2.0 Signaling Specification Release 2 – OTNv3 Extensions (May 2014)
- OIF-ENNI-REC-AM-01.0 – Recovery Amendment to E-NNI 2.0 Common Part (February 2014)
- OIF-PCE-IA-01.0 – Path Computation Element (June 2013)
- OIF-OTN-TCM-01.0 – Guidelines for Application of OTN TCM White Paper (June 2013)
- OIF-ENNI-ML-AM-01.0 – Multilayer Amendment to E-NNI 2.0 – Common Part (April 2013)
- OIF-SEP-03.2 – Security Extension for UNI and E-NNI 2.1 (October 2012)
- OIF-SLG-01.3 – OIF Control Plane Logging and Auditing with Syslog (October 2012)
- OIF-SMI-03.1 – Security for Management Interfaces to Network Elements 2.0 (October 2012)
- OIF-E2E-SEC-01.0 – End-to-End Transport of UNI Client Authentication, Integrity, and Data Plane Security Support Information (May 2012)
- OIF-CP-MGMT-01.0 – Management Plane (OSS) Support for Control Plane Networks White Paper(2012)
- OIF-RSVP-PVT-EXT-01.0 – OIF Application of Vendor Private Extensions in RSVP Implementation Agreement (October 2011)
- OIF-CWG-CPR-01.0 – OIF Carrier Working Group Guideline Document: Control Plane Requirements for Multi-Domain Optical Transport Networks (July 2010)
- OIF-E-NNI-Sig-02.0 – E-NNI Signaling Specification (April 2009)
- OIF-G-Sig-IW-01.0 – OIF Guideline Document: Signaling Protocol Interworking of ASON/GMPLS Network Domains (June 2008)
- OIF-UNI-02.0-Common – User Network Interface (UNI) 2.0 Signaling Specification: Common Part(February 2008)
- OIF-CDR-01.0 – Call Detail Records for OIF UNI 1.0 Billing (April 2002)
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