xtends the scope of OCP specifications to encompass telecom hardware. The mission of the Open Compute Networking Project is to create a set of networking technologies that are disaggregated and fully open, enabling rapid innovation in the network space. The objective of the Open Networking Project is to facilitate and enable new and innovative open networking hardware and software standards, design creations and collaborations, project valida- tion and testing, and OCP community contributions. Key drivers of OCP are common standard form factors and 100% standards-based white box hardware implementations, which enable the transition from existing proprietary solutions to solutions based on nonproprietary open specifications. A full specification of an access node would be highly complex, requiring a detailed description of all of the capabilities and behaviors embedded in an access node SOC, as well as describing how Network Access that SOC would be designed into an access node. The specification of an access node becomes much more manageable by basing the design on a merchant silicon SOC for that access node. 11.4.6 OPEN vOLT HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS Network access equipment is often deployed in different environments. For example, deployments for a data center, a central office, and a remote outdoor plant enclosure would be of various sizes and would have different environmental requirements. The new access architecture would allow a wide range of designs to be configured and controlled by common software and to offer the same set of services. In order to jumpstart the process of creating open hardware specifications, AT&T worked toward the creation of a consistent set of hardware specifications for vOLTs that could operate in different environments. During the March 2016 OCP Summit, AT&T submitted three designs for 10 Gbps PON hardware to the OCP Telecom Group: the MicroOLT, the 16 port OLT pizza box, and the 4 port hardened "clamshell" OLT. Each design is optimized for a different deployment scenario. MicroOLT-