Building Dynamic Lightpaths in GÉANT

Tangui Coulouarn, DeIC

E-Infrastructure Autumn Workshop, Chișinău

8 September 2014

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Agenda

GÉANT connectivity services

Multi-domain services

What is Bandwidth-on-Demand?

Some technical aspects of the service: AutoBAHN, NSI, etc.

Work in Progress: Monitoring and AAI

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Different uses of the networks

“Big Science” may need to send very large amounts of data

Other international projects need dedicated/overlay networks

Network technologists need test beds

Yet some people still ship hard drives…

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GÉANT connectivity services

GÉANT IP

GÉANT L3VPN

GÉANT Plus

GÉANT Lambda

GÉANT Open

GÉANT MDVPN

GÉANT Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD)

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Backbone services and multi-domain services

Backbone services are delivered and operated by DANTE

One operator

Usually one technology

E.g. GÉANT Plus, GÉANT Lambda

Other services are multi-domain

Multiple operators

Multiple technologies

E.g. MDVPN, BoD

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What is Bandwidth-on-Demand?

Ability to deliver point-to-point L2 circuits with guaranteed parameters

Circuits provisioned on-demand or scheduled in advance

Software controlled

Initiated by end-users through GUI or application

AutoBAHN apps for Android and iOS

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BoD is a service co-provided by European NRENs and GÉANT

Agreements on the properties of the service

Common AUP

Common procedures

One multi-domain service desk

Etc.

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A technology agnostic service

GÉANT BoD is a tool-agnostic service, it is:

multi-domain

multi-vendor

multi-technology

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AutoBAHN as an option to run BoD

GÉANT offers technological support for deployment and implementation of the service

AutoBAHN is the provisioning software used by the majority of European NRENs

It has three main components

- the Inter-Domain Manager

- the Domain Manager

- the Technology Proxy

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AutoBAHN can run on multiple technologies

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BoD Client Portal (1)

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BoD Client Portal (2)

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DeIC NORDUnet GÉANTMANLAN ESnet

DTU SLAC

AutoBAHN AutoBAHNOpenNSA OSCARS OSCARS

Still, need for provisioning systems to interoperate: concrete example

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NSI: Global Standard Emerging for Interoperability

NSI CS: Network Service Interface Connection Services protocol

Developed by the community in the OGF

Agreement by multiple networks to deploy the current version (NSI CS v2.0)

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GÉANT BoD is NSI compliant

In GN3:

• BoD used the IDCP developed within DICE collaboration

• Peering mostly with North America

• In the final reporting period NSI v1.0 compatibility

During GN3plus: • Native compliance to NSI v2.0• Involved a total rewrite of the IDM

module• Global reach • In production since April 2014• Tests going on with global

partners

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Work in Progress for Monitoring

Control-plane solution recycling existing technologies (NAGIOS plugins, Icinga)

CMon-D co-developed with SA4 for data-plane monitoring as a PerfSONAR extension

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Work in Progress for AAI

GUI eduGAIN-enabled

Agreement with non-AutoBAHN domains regarding the European AAI approach:

Extending the approach already adopted by an NREN

Token based to exert control where it matters

Standardisation effort within the NSI working group for a global solution

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Thank you!