SENSE 26.01 Unlocks Intercontinental Network Visibility via AtlanticWave-SDX
The ESnet SENSE project team released the SENSE Orchestrator 26.01 (Final) on January 21, 2026. This biannual major release delivers important stability improvements, dependency modernization, usability enhancements, and refined visualization behavior. A cornerstone of this release is the formal integration with the AtlanticWave-SDX project, through a component referred to as the “SDX driver”. The AtlanticWave-SDX API was first integrated with SENSE in release 2025.1.1, and later improved in release 2026.1. The SENSE SDX driver is a key component in the SENSE-O (Orchestrator) stack. It is used to communicate with the AtlanticWave-SDX controller to gather information about topology and available resources, to provision L2 circuits, and to enable service monitoring. By integrating SENSE and SDX, the R&E community, especially users of SENSE, will benefit from visibility to a variety of resources spread across distributed intercontinental Open Exchange Points (OXPs) in the U.S., Chile, Brazil, and South Africa.
