Distributed cloud services based on programmable agile networks
Journal
Proceedings of TERENA networking conference (TNC16), Prague
Date Issued
2016-06-13
Author(s)
Demchenko, Yuri
Karaliotas, Tasos
de Vos, Migiel
Regvart, Damir
Abstract
In order to allow researchers to focus on their work, all newly designed applications and
services must not only offer features needed to tackle Big Data problems, but need to
work seamlessly and intuitively, while efficiently hiding all non-necessary technical and
networking details from the end user. Thus, today’s requirements of the research and
education community demand a holistic converged approach in the design of new
generation intelligent cloud aware networks that need to work in concert with the
distributed application components. The goal of this paper is to contribute toward setting
up the building blocks of an open multi-cloud ecosystem based on a programmable cloud
service delivery infrastructure. For these purposes we examine the possibility of
introducing a third-party multi-cloud marketplace placed on top of a cloud aware agile
network that can be reconfigured based on the defined multi-cloud application workflow.
We discuss the overall architecture of the ecosystem and define the requirements for the
underlying network infrastructure. The described proof of concept demonstrates the
benefits of the proposed solution providing an example of how the concepts of network
function virtualization and software defined networks can be leveraged in order to obtain an agile programmable network that will respond to the changes in the application traffic
flow. With self-provisioning being acknowledged as a crucial component among service
providers, we discuss all steps needed in order to translate user requests in a fully
automated end-to-end service delivery and monitoring especially in a multi-domain
environment.
services must not only offer features needed to tackle Big Data problems, but need to
work seamlessly and intuitively, while efficiently hiding all non-necessary technical and
networking details from the end user. Thus, today’s requirements of the research and
education community demand a holistic converged approach in the design of new
generation intelligent cloud aware networks that need to work in concert with the
distributed application components. The goal of this paper is to contribute toward setting
up the building blocks of an open multi-cloud ecosystem based on a programmable cloud
service delivery infrastructure. For these purposes we examine the possibility of
introducing a third-party multi-cloud marketplace placed on top of a cloud aware agile
network that can be reconfigured based on the defined multi-cloud application workflow.
We discuss the overall architecture of the ecosystem and define the requirements for the
underlying network infrastructure. The described proof of concept demonstrates the
benefits of the proposed solution providing an example of how the concepts of network
function virtualization and software defined networks can be leveraged in order to obtain an agile programmable network that will respond to the changes in the application traffic
flow. With self-provisioning being acknowledged as a crucial component among service
providers, we discuss all steps needed in order to translate user requests in a fully
automated end-to-end service delivery and monitoring especially in a multi-domain
environment.
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