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Towards 400G/1T

  • OIF-FD-FLEXCOH-DWDM-01.0 – Flex Coherent DWDM Transmission Framework Document (August 2017)
  • OIF-Tech-Options-400G-01.0 – Technology Options for 400G Implementation (July 2015)
  • OIF-FD-Client-400G/1T-01.0 – OIF Next Generation Interconnect Framework White Paper(April 2013)

Management Interface Specifications

  • OIF-C-CMIS-01.1 – Implementation Agreement for Coherent CMIS (March 2020)

Coherent

  • 400G
    • OIF-400ZR-01.0 – Implementation Agreement 400ZR(March 2020)
  • 100G
    • OIF-FEC-100G-01.0 – 100G Forward Error Correction White Paper(May 2010)
    • OIF-FD-100G-DWDM-01.0-100G Ultra Long Haul DWDM Framework Document (June 2009)
  • Transmitter/Receiver
    • OIF-IC-TROSA-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Integrated Coherent Transmit-Receive Optical Sub Assembly(August 2019)
  • Transmitter
    • OIF-HB-CDM-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (November 2018)
    • 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)

Protocol

  • OIF-FLEXE-ND-01.0 – FlexE Neighbor Discovery Implementation Agreement(September 2018)
  • OIF-FLEXE-02.1 – Flex Ethernet 2.1 Implementation Agreement(July 2019)
  • 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-04.0 – Common Electrical I/O (CEI) – Electrical and Jitter Interoperability Agreements for 6G+ bps, 11G+ bps, 25G+ bps I/O and 56G+ bps(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

  • OIF-LRI-02.0 – Interoperability for Long Reach and Extended Reach 10 Gb/s Transponders and Transceivers(July 2006)

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

  • OIF-Thermal-01.0 – Implementation Agreement for Thermal Interface Specification for Pluggable Optics Modules(May 2015)
  • OIF-PLUG-Thermal-01.0 – Thermal Management at the Faceplate White Paper(2012)

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)

Accessing NPF Implementation Agreements

Click here to access NPF IAs

Verdict

Luminar Flex is the latest version of the ‘old’ Luminar, and a terrific standalone photo editor and plug-in. It doesn’t have the built-in digital asset management (DAM) of its Luminar 3 stablemate, but it integrates much better with an established workflow. If you don’t like the bundled Looks, you can always create your own or download more. In every other respect, Luminar Flex is powerful, innovative and very affordable. If you thought Skylum took a wrong turn with Luminar 3 with Libraries, with Luminar Flex it’s back on track.

  • How to get/download Luminar: Save $10/£10 with coupon code “LAWTON”

Introduction

Luminar Flex is the new ‘plug-in’ version of Luminar, though it will also work as a standalone photo-editing program. The difference between Luminar Flex and Luminar 3 is that Flex is designed to work alongside other programs, whereas Luminar 3 is more of a closed all-in-one system.

Many photographers use different programs for different jobs, such as organising their photo library with Lightroom but applying image effects in plug-ins or external editors. That doesn’t suit the design of Luminar 3, which is the reason for Luminar Flex.

Luminar Flex is a lot like the original Luminar software. You can launch it as a standalone photo editing program or as a plug-in from within Lightroom, Photoshop and Elements – other programs will be able to use it as an external editor, which amounts to the same thing.

How Luminar Flex works

Luminar Flex offers a large selection of tools and effects, but not in a fixed system of panels and palettes like other programs. Instead, it uses a large number of Filters which can be applied individually or in combination. Each filter has its own adjustments – some simple, some sophisticated – and you can even use masking tools to restrict the filter effect to specific areas of the picture.

It doesn’t stop there. If you find yourself using the same set of filters again and again, you can combine them in a custom Workspace. Luminar Flex comes with a selection of preconfigured Workspaces for different genres of photography. You can use these or make your own.

But there’s an even quicker way to apply a very specific image ‘look’, and that’s with Luminar Looks (or presets, if you like). Each Look uses a specific combination of Filters and settings. You can adjust these in the main tools panel on the right, add or remove filters and create your own custom Looks very easily.

Luminar Flex comes with a wide selection of Looks in different categories and you can download more from the Skylum site. In fact, Flex users can download a free Flex Toolbox Looks Pack from the Flex Community site.

Luminar Flex isn’t just a tool for adding filters and effects – it goes a lot further than that. It can open and process RAW files via its RAW Develop filter, and this includes automatic and manual lens corrections, and transform tools for correcting converging verticals and other perspective problems. Luminar has a crop tool, noise reduction, and a retouching/erase option for removing sensor spots and unwanted objects in the scene.

Luminar Flex

Even more impressive is its support for layers. These are not just adjustment layers, for applying adjustments non-destructively, but image layers too, so you can combine images in multi-layer montages, with control over the layer opacity and blend mode (just like Photoshop) and with layer masks too. These include a manual masking brush, gradient and radial masks. The only limitation is that if you go back to edit a layer part way down the stack, the layers above are temporarily disabled while you work.

Luminar Flex may look like a quick-fix and special effects tool, but it’s actually a lot deeper than that. It’s a powerful photo-editing application in its own right, that’s just as useful for in-depth image enhancement and adjustments as it is for instant Looks.

Verdict

It does seem odd that Skylum should first launch Luminar as a standalone photo-editor, then add in digital asset management (DAM) tools in Luminar 3, and THEN launch a separate Luminar Flex program that works like the ‘old’ Luminar. These are now being sold as two separate products. If you want both (realistically, you won’t), you have to pay for both.

But there is some sense behind this. On paper, Luminar 3 (or ‘Luminar with Libraries’) offers more than the old version, with in-built photo management and fully non-destructive photo editing. In fact, though, it takes the software in a very different direction. It’s fine for novices or casual users and experimenters who want just a single editing environment and don’t mind if it’s something of a closed system. That doesn’t suit photographers like me who prefer to manage and process RAW files in one program and use others for different kinds of effects.

Luminar Flex 4

So although Luminar Flex appears to do ‘less’ than Luminar 3, it’s actually much more useful to me and, I suspect, may other photographers who already have a workflow they like. Even if it looks like you’re getting less, what you’re getting is actually much more useful. I’d recommend Luminar 3 to new or non-technical users, but Luminar Flex to regular photographers. Luminar 3 still has some limitations, annoyances and constraints, whereas Luminar Flex doesn’t have any. It reminds me why I liked Luminar so much in the first place.

Luminar flex

UPDATE: In Luminar 4, Flex has been re-integrated into the Luminar app and is no longer sold separately. See below.

Luminar 4 is now available – Download the trial version – Upgrade from Luminar 3 – Buy Luminar 4 – Use the code LAWTON for a special discount at the checkout