TNC 2011
Pau Minoves (Technical Manager)
Prague, May 2011
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Mantychore @ a Glance
Mantychore legacy
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2006 – Manticore
2007 – Manticore II
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(also with RedIris, Cisco and Juniper)
2010 – Mantychore FP7
ICT-2010 Call 7
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1.2.3 – Virtual Research Communities
Total Project Cost: 1,564,386€
EC contribution: 1,399,740€
Start date: October 2010
Duration: 30 months
Partners composition
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1 Research Center
2 NREN
3 users
1 commercial operator
Overview
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Challenges
VISION
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Provide a software implementation and tools for
providing and managing routers and IP networks as
services.
Open project consideration
 Public documentation
 Open mailing list
 Feedback and involvement are welcomed
MISSION
 By means of:
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Infrastructure Provisioning:
 Marketplace of Physical/logical routers and IP networks
IP Network as a Service:
 Creation and configuration of IP networks
 L1 and L2 integration
 Ether project (Ethernet and MPLS)
 Argia project (Optical network devices)
Providing the service to 3 virtual research communities
 Mantychore will be deployed over the infrastructure of:
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2 NRENS
 NORDUnet, HEAnet
3 initial users.
 UNI-C, TCD, University of ESSEX
www.mantychore.eu
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Our Challenge
VISION
Provide a software implementation and tools for providing and managing
routers and IP networks as services.
MISION
By means of :
 Infrastructure Provisioning:
• Marketplace of Physical/logical routers and IP networks
 IP Network as a Service:
• Creation and configuration of IP networks
• L1 and L2 integration
 Providing the service to 3 virtual research communities
Mantychore will be deployed over the
infrastructure of 2 NRENS and 3 initial users.
Overview
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Objectives
Deploy an operational
IP Network as a Service
•Enable HEAnet and NORDUnet to provide IP Network Services to their users
enhancing their service portfolio.
•Improve research communities activities and optimize the efficiency of
use of e-Infrastructures.
• Refine and expand the Mantychore services provided by means of
integrating, with IaaS tools, solutions for optical and Ethernet/MPLS
networks.
Marketplace for
resource trading
•Innovate in the business model, establishing a marketplace where all
Infrastructure Providers can publish their available resources. Customers
can automatically negotiate the SLAs getting the best resource combination for
their needs.
• Use Mantychore services to contribute to the research performed in the
GreenStar Network (GSN) project to enable carbon-neutral
infrastructures.
Commercial
Exploitation
www.mantychore.eu
Integrated Layer 1-3
services
Carbon-neutral eInfrastructures
• Evaluate the likehood of Mantychore services (open source based) in
a commercial telco environment and elaborate a business plan
focused on this service for telco operators.
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USERS AND USE CASES
www.mantychore.eu
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User Community
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Grid-Ireland “Cloud Layer”, TCD
Improving the Health Data
Network,
Dedicated IP Networks to
support media services (Wales
and Scotland),
router
Authorized
User
Connection
Agreement
System
Health
Data
Network
Hub
router
router
router
Fixed connections + VPNs
+
MANTICORE managed IP
Networks
Site 1
router
Site 2
www.mantychore.eu
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Virtual CPE – Scenario 1
Provider’s domain
(HEAnet)
CPE
Client A domain
Client B domain
 Providers enforce parts of the
CPE configuration
 i.e. BGP policies.
 Delegation of partial
configuration rights to clients.
 Internal IGP
 VRRP
 Firewall
…
 Automatic provisioning of
new clients.
 Reduce need for new
hardware deployments.
Physical Router
Logical Router
SA1 Software Refinement
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Virtual CPE – Scenario 2
Provider’s domain
(Health Data Net.)
MPLS LSP’s
Provider’s domain
(UNI·C)
CPE
Client A domain
Physical Router
Logical Router
VPN
SA1 Software Refinement
 Providers enforce parts of the
CPE configuration
 i.e. BGP policies.
 Delegation of partial
configuration rights to clients.
 Internal IGP
 VRRP
 Firewall
…
 Automatic provisioning of
access to provider LSP
channels.
 Directly or via a VPN.
 Reduce need for new
hardware deployments.
 Reporting to existing
accounting infrastructure.
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Virtual CPE – Scenario 2
Provider’s domain
(Health Data Net.)
MPLS LSP’s
Provider’s domain
(UNI·C)
CPE
Client A domain
Physical Router
Logical Router
VPN
SA1 Software Refinement
 Providers enforce parts of the
CPE configuration
 i.e. BGP policies.
 Delegation of partial
configuration rights to clients.
 Internal IGP
 VRRP
 Firewall
…
 Automatic provisioning of
access to provider LSP
channels.
 Directly or via a VPN.
 Reduce need for new
hardware deployments.
 Reporting to existing
accounting infrastructure.
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Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 1
 This scenario will use
Grid-Ireland nodes to
test complex cloud-like
sharing of resources
and flexible networks.
 A grid site is formed
by:
 Infrastructure
nodes
 Worker nodes
 Currently, only
infrastructure nodes
have connectivity.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 1
 We foresee a two stage
implementation:
 At a first stage:
 Use of a L3 VPN
 Policies at TCD.
 Low impact
 Will allow the. grid
site to meet at a
NREN-managed
logical router
 Worked nodes, will be
able to be aggregated in
a flexible cloud.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 1
 We foresee a two
stage implementation:
 At a first stage:
 Use of a L3 VPN
 Will allow the.
grid site to meet
at a NRENmanaged logical
router
 Worked nodes, will be
able to be aggregated
in a flexible cloud.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 1
 We foresee a two
stage implementation:
 At a second stage:
 Institutional IT
departments will
be involved in the
setup.
 Implement L2
solutions where
possible.
 Avoid tunneling
overhead.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 2
 Three actors involved:
 Virtual Machine IaaS Provider – NREN or comercial
operator.
 Offer virtual private clouds.
 Configurable user addressing space.
 L2 access.
 Network IaaS Provider – NREN
 SUnet.
 Redundant Full mesh LSPs.
 Campus
 Computing resources consumer.
 Router partially managed by Mantychore.
 Main requirement:
 Network transparency.
 Avoid any reconfiguration of >L4 services.
SA1 Software Refinement
VM
migration
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Mantychore vs new Amazon VPC
 Amazon VPC launched dynamic networks on March‘11
 Amazon VPC has four templates:
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A) VPC with public subnet.
B) VPC with public and private subnet.
C) VPC with Internet and VPN access.
D) VPC with VPN only access.
 Mantychore will implement:
 D -> C -> A.
 Base technologies
 Support IPv6 is being studied.
 VPNs both at L3 and L2 (MPLS, pure-VLAN).
 Open Source.
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Inspect the source code.
Adapt, customize.
Deploy on your own infrastructure.
Integrate with existing deployed systems.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Ultra High Definition Applications
 Deployment of next
Physical topology
generation multimedia
applications
Logical topology
 3D, UHD
 Stream producers and
consumers.
 3D medical
applications.
 3D virtual
tourism.
USERS
USERS
GLASGOW
ESSEX
JANET UK-IP
USERS
USERS
 Flexibility to adjust,
network independent of
underlying infrastructure.
Bandwidth on
Demand.
SA1 Software Refinement
CARDIFF
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THE TOOLSET
www.mantychore.eu
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Mantychore Architecture
External Interface.
 Pluggable (so REST easily
supported)
 Currently Web Services
based.
• Easy to integrate with
other existing
middlewares
 Like cloud provisioning.
 A comprehensive GUI for
desktop and Web (WIP).
SA1 Software Refinement
Other
Middleware or
GUI
Desk.
Resources WS
ROADM WS
Router WS
IP Network WS
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Web
Reporting System
Fuse ServiceMix
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Mantychore Architecture
 Integration with existing infrastructure.
 For access control:
• Use SAML to integrate with existing identity
providers.
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Conf.
Engine
 For reporting
Protocol
M WS
• Integration with existing ticket/bug systems.
Access Control
Reporting System
e ServiceMix
Exiting
infrastructure
ork WS
 Integrate Mantychore with the
organization’s current workflow and
tools.
 Infrastructure operators:
 Mantychore offers Operators a CLI to
manage mantychore services.
 Profiles feature allows the operator to
modify or override the configuration
that is sent to the network equipment
• Important to enforce institutional policies.
SA1 Software Refinement
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Technologies
Development
Testing
FUSE ESB Kernel
Console
Logging
Provisioning
Deployer
Admin
Spring DM
Security
OSGI Framework
SA1 Software Refinement
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MARKETPLACE
www.mantychore.eu
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WP6 Overall Objective
 Study, design and simulation of the necessary algorithms for the
implementation of the MANTYCHORE marketplace mechanism
 Enable the automatic negotiation and reservation of resources between
users and providers.
• The capability to automatically select, orchestrate and reserve the best resources
for a given request
 To use the marketplace in order to allow the NRENs to announce
their own infrastructure as resources of MANTYCHORE services
 Users from virtual research communities will be able to access resources
from several providers
JRA1 Infrastructure resources marketplace
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Technical Progress
Study and analysis of existing and state of the art
work
 Review of projects and framework relevant to L3
virtualization and virtual IP resource allocation
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XBONE
PLanetLab
VIOLIN
AUTOI
AGAVE
 Review of existing network brokering mechanisms
• Internet2 approach: NARB (Network Aware Resource Broker)
• Grid approach: Market-Oriented Grid algorithms
JRA1 Infrastructure resources marketplace
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Technical Progress
Definition of market place based use case
 The use case will be based on UK Ultra-high Definition (UHD)
consortium network infrastructure
• The UK Ultra-high Definition (UHD) consortium is a networked infrastructure for
the development and deployment of next generation networked multimedia
applications and services. It consists of five members namely: University of Essex
(Essex), University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Digital Design Studio (Glasgow),
University of Cardiff (Cardiff), and Technium CAST (Bangor).
• The current setup is made up of three networked nodes – Essex, Glasgow, and
Cardiff – which are interconnected via the JANET UK network, and is investigating
the development and deployment of interactive UHD 3D media applications in
the medical and cultural heritage/ virtual tourism domains.
JRA1 Infrastructure resources marketplace
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Technical Progress
 Definition of market place based use case
 Use case emulated infrastructure
Emulated Infrastrcuture2
Emulated Infrastrcuture1
JRA1 Infrastructure resources marketplace
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GREEN IT
www.mantychore.eu
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Scope of JRA2
 MANTYCHORE-GSN collaboration has the objective to design necessary
experiments and tests which eventually check the viability of the
movement of services (virtual machines (VMs and applications)) using
flexible device configuration utilities such as Infrastructure as a Service
and Bandwidth on Demand solutions.
 Perform the integration between GSN and MANTYCHORE (physical
integration between the GSN and the NRENs infrastructure and also the
services integration).
EPA building rooftop, Ireland
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures
Dunhill, Ireland
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GSN Objectives
 Initiate a consortium of industry, universities and government
agencies with the common goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions arising from information & communication technology
(ICT) services
 Create tools, protocols, procedures, and use cases for a growing
network of ICT service providers that offers customers the lowest
price and greenest services
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures
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GSN Node & Network
GSN associates and MANTYCHORE
GSN / Mantychore Integration team meetings active focusing on
• Test Case Generation
• Solution Integration requirements and benefits analysis
• Training
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures
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IBBT GSN Node
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures
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Join us!
ENLARGE THE USER COMMUNITY
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Open Project Approach
 Official Website
 Points to all the resources
 www.mantychore.eu
 Open Wiki
 http://jira.i2cat.net:8090/display/MANTECH/Home
 Open Mailing list
 Open technical
 Archives online
 http://listas.i2cat.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mantychore-technical
 Open Source
 http://anon:anon@svn.i2cat.net/repos/manticore/
Open Project
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Open Project Approach
News
Pointers to all
past
presentations
Archives
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How to get a
copy of the
source code
Open Project
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Open Project Approach
Pointers to all
participation
channels
Partner only
area
Open Project
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Open Project Approach
 Private area
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User
Documentatio
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Working Area
Work Packages
and Task have
spaces here
Deliverables are
published here
Public readonly
Open Project
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Join the community
[WP3]
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Survey Available
We have (short) survey available.
We would love to hear your thoughts on
Mantychore and if you think it would fit you.
 Or what it would need to fit you.
Plus we have some ipad/laptop sleeves available.
 But do it for science, right? ;)
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Find us
You can also take the
survey online at:
http://fi2.cat/tnc2011survey
Or find i2CAT’s
booth at:
 Between DANTE and
RIPE NCC.
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Thanks for listening
QUESTIONS?
BACKUP SLIDES
Protocol Architecture
M2M network
Web Service
User Access
 Http
 Resource control
 Juniper- Netconf
 Cisco- WSMA
(on coming)
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT
Mantychore
Server
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Federation Architecture
 Users can configure
resources from
external domains
 Create/configure
 Logical switches
 Logical routers
 IP networks
 Provisioning L1 & L2
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT
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Complete Gantt
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT
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