[PDF] from uazone.org Enabling automated network services provisioning for cloud based applications using zero touch provisioning
Date Issued
2015-12-07
Author(s)
Demchenko, Yuri
Tuminauskas, Raimundas
Baumann, Kurt
Regvart, Damir
Breach, Tony
Abstract
Modern research and education networks need to
solve two major tasks: (1) providing seamless access to their
users, and (2) support new scientific and collaborative
applications that are becoming increasingly complex and
dynamic in their scale, use of distributed resources, and
required advanced networking services. Rapid deployment and
automation of new network services provisioning is becoming
difficult in large networks that incorporate different
technologies and solutions. The task of providing seamless user
experience in typically mobile and dynamically changing
collaborative groups generates additional burdens for the
configuration phases included in network provisioning. By
introducing automation and enabling multipoint auto
configuration of network devices, the Zero Touch Provisioning
(ZTP) concept emerges as a possible alleviation of the complex
network provisioning and infrastructure services deployment
process. This paper investigates the characteristics of the ZTP
model and discovers how ZTP can be used in order to enhance
the services provided by the GEANT network and its
associated National Research and Education Networks
(NRENs) to the European research and education community.
The future solution can be achieved by combining and
enriching the existing provisioning models, solutions and
practices available from different domains such as wireless
networks, (complex) network management and operations
services, and cloud based infrastructure services provisioning.
solve two major tasks: (1) providing seamless access to their
users, and (2) support new scientific and collaborative
applications that are becoming increasingly complex and
dynamic in their scale, use of distributed resources, and
required advanced networking services. Rapid deployment and
automation of new network services provisioning is becoming
difficult in large networks that incorporate different
technologies and solutions. The task of providing seamless user
experience in typically mobile and dynamically changing
collaborative groups generates additional burdens for the
configuration phases included in network provisioning. By
introducing automation and enabling multipoint auto
configuration of network devices, the Zero Touch Provisioning
(ZTP) concept emerges as a possible alleviation of the complex
network provisioning and infrastructure services deployment
process. This paper investigates the characteristics of the ZTP
model and discovers how ZTP can be used in order to enhance
the services provided by the GEANT network and its
associated National Research and Education Networks
(NRENs) to the European research and education community.
The future solution can be achieved by combining and
enriching the existing provisioning models, solutions and
practices available from different domains such as wireless
networks, (complex) network management and operations
services, and cloud based infrastructure services provisioning.
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