Why Participate?

Benefits of participation to large/mid-size companies.

• The OTN becomes a production test environment for their products.
• By making resources available to the industry, participation put them in "industry leader" position.
• Allows them access to "up and comers" within the industry.
• Access to the pulver.com facilities, for interoperability events, including conference rooms and registration personal.

Benefits of participation to mid-size/small/startup companies.

• Interop with "big" companies that otherwise wouldn't invest engineering resources into a small project.
• Interop with many other "small" companies in a single place, this included the standing environment and in the traveling show. By combining the traveling version of the OTN with the VON show, small companies get to maximize their travel dollars.
• Unlike bakeoffs, where a gag is put on anything other than a participation announcement, interops within the OTN can be published.
• In addition to traditional hardware layer interops, other layers will also be included the architecture of the OTN so that issues such as applications and billing can also be tested.
• Access to the pulver.com facilities, for interoperability events, including conference rooms and registration personal.