1. Pau Minoves (Technical Manager) Prague, May 2011
TNC 2011
Pau Minoves (Technical Manager)
Prague, May 2011

2. Manticore Proof of concept for IP network and router as a service 2008
With the aim of creating a proof-of-concept for (Layer 3) IP networks and routers as a servivce
The first Manticore project was started in 2006 between NRENs, developers and network vendors such as Cisco and Juniper
2008

3. Manticore II Improved capabilities Pilot on NRENs 2009
Partition physical routers into logical routers
Configure external (BGP) and internal (OSPF, RIP) routing protocols
2009

4. What about the network users?
2009

5. 1.2.3 – Virtual Research Communities
ICT-2009 Call 5
1.2.3 – Virtual Research Communities
A consortium including NRENs and users submitted an FP7 proposal for a pre-production service,
Total Project Cost: 1,564,386€
EC contribution: 1,399,740€
Start date: October 1st, 2010
Duration: March 31st, 2013 (30 months)
(Name changed to avoid conflict)
October 2010

6. Mantychore @ a Glance ICT-2010 Call 7 Total Project Cost: 1,564,386€
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
1 Research Center
2 NREN
3 users
1 commercial operator
Overview

7. Objectives Integrated Layer 1-3 services
Refine and expand the Mantychore services provided by means of integrating, with IaaS tools, solutions for optical and Ethernet/MPLS networks.
Integrated Layer 1-3 services
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.
Deploy an operational IP Network as a Service
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.
Marketplace for resource trading
Use Mantychore services to contribute to the research performed in the GreenStar Network (GSN) project to enable carbon-neutral infrastructures.
Carbon-neutral e-Infrastructures
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.
Commercial Exploitation

8. CORE Users and use cases

9. User Community Enhanced
IP Network as a Service
Grid Site 1
Grid Site 2
VMs VM
Grid Site 3
Grid Site 4
Grid Site 5
Grid Site 6
Enhanced
Dedicated IP Networks to support media services (Wales and Scotland),
Grid-Ireland “Cloud Layer”, TCD
Improving the Health Data Network,
Explanation the Badge Enhanced -> Mantychore will provide a distributed cloud infrastructure in TCD with the objective to improve its present grid architecture
Fixed connections + VPNs +
MANTICORE managed IP Networks
Site 1
router
router
Connection
Agreement
System
Health Data Network Hub
router
Authorized
User
Site 2
router
router

10. Use Cases Enhanced UHD Green IT D&P Clouds Virtual CPE Marketplace
BoD
IPaaS
UHD
Marketplace
Green IT
D&P Clouds
Virtual CPE
IP Network as a Service
Grid Site 1
Grid Site 2
VMs VM
Grid Site 3
Grid Site 4
Grid Site 5
Grid Site 6
Enhanced
Dedicated IP Networks to support media services (Wales and Scotland),
Grid-Ireland “Cloud Layer”, TCD
Improving the Health Data Network,
Explanation the Badge Enhanced -> Mantychore will provide a distributed cloud infrastructure in TCD with the objective to improve its present grid architecture
Fixed connections + VPNs +
MANTICORE managed IP Networks
Site 1
router
router
Connection
Agreement
System
Health Data Network Hub
router
Authorized
User
Site 2
router
router
Core
JRA

11. Virtual CPE – Scenario 1 Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Provider’s domain
(HEAnet)
Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Via virtual routers.
Reduce need for new hardware deployments.
Providers enforce parts of the CPE configuration.
i.e. BGP policies.
Delegation of partial configuration rights to clients.
Internal IGP
VRRP
Firewall …
CPE
Client A domain
Client B domain
Physical Router
Logical Router
SA1 Software Refinement

12. Virtual CPE – Scenario 2 Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Provider’s domain
(Health Data Net.)
MPLS LSP’s
Provider’s domain
(UNI·C)
Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Via virtual routers.
Reduce need for new hardware deployments.
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.
User driven.
CPE
Client A domain
Physical Router
Logical Router
VPN
SA1 Software Refinement

13. Virtual CPE – Scenario 2 Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Provider’s domain
(Health Data Net.)
MPLS LSP’s
Provider’s domain
(UNI·C)
Automatic provisioning of new clients.
Via virtual routers.
Reduce need for new hardware deployments.
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.
Either directly or via a VPN.
CPE
Client A domain
Physical Router
Logical Router
VPN
SA1 Software Refinement

14. 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.
Worker nodes are on an isolated LAN.
SA1 Software Refinement

15. 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
Worker nodes, will be able to be aggregated in a flexible cloud.
SA1 Software Refinement

16. 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
Worker nodes, will be able to be aggregated in a flexible cloud.
SA1 Software Refinement

17. 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

18. Distributed and Private Cloud – Scenario 2
Three actors involved:
Campus
Computing resources consumer.
Routers partially managed by Mantychore.
Main requirement:
Move infrastructure to the cloud.
Network transparency.
Avoid application reconfiguration.
Network IaaS Provider – NREN
SUnet.
L2 Services
Redundant Full mesh LSPs.
VM IaaS Provider – NREN or comercial operator.
Offer virtual private clouds.
Configurable user addressing space.
VM migration
SA1 Software Refinement

19. Virtual Private Cloud
Compare with Amazon VPC, which launched a dynamic network component recently.
Amazon VPC allows various configurations of public and private subnets and with/without internet access.
Mantychore aims to provide similar support, with the advantage that it can operate at the lower, physical layers of the network.
Mantychore will also support IPv6.

20. Mantychore vs new Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC launched dynamic networks on March‘11
Amazon VPC has four templates:
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 for IPv6.
VPNs both at L3 and L2 (MPLS, pure-VLAN).
Open Source toolset available.
Inspect the source code.
Adapt, customize.
Deploy on your own infrastructure.
Integrate with existing deployed systems.
SA1 Software Refinement

21. Ultra High Definition Applications
Deployment of next generation multimedia applications
3D, UHD
Stream producers and consumers.
3D medical applications.
3D virtual tourism.
Flexibility to adjust, network independent of underlying infrastructure.
Bandwidth on Demand.
Physical topology
Logical topology
ESSEX
JANET UK-IP
CARDIFF
GLASGOW
USERS
SA1 Software Refinement

22. MARKETPLACE

23. Marketplace
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

24. Marketplace Definition of market place based use case
Use case emulated infrastructure
JRA1 Infrastructure resources marketplace

25. GREEN IT

26. Scope of JRA2 MANTYCHORE-GSN Design necessary experiments and tests
Check the viability of the movement of services : VMs and applications.
using innovative networking paradigms such as IaaS and BoD solutions.
Perform the integration between GSN and MANTYCHORE
Physical integration between the GSN and the NRENs infrastructure
Services integration
EPA rooftop,
Ireland
Dundalk, Ireland
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures

27. IBBT GSN Node
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures

28. GSN associates and MANTYCHORE
GSN Node & Network
Follow the wind, follow the sun.
Collect network energy consumption metrics.
Estimate remaining green energy.
Migrate VMs to another location.
The network must be reconfigured.
GSN associates and MANTYCHORE
JRA2 Zero-carbon emission virtual infrastructures

29. ENLARGE the USER COMMUNITY
Join us!
ENLARGE the USER COMMUNITY

30. Open Project Approach Pointers to all participation channels
Partner only area
How to get a copy of the source code
Wait until 1.0 ;)
Open Project

31. Open Wiki Open Mail Open Web Open Source .eu We are an open project!
See mantychore.eu on the web
.eu

32. Join the community
Want to be the first to know when new things happen in the project?
Want to get more information about the project or software?
Have any great ideas for us? Send your questions or ideas to the mailing list:
Survey + some ipad/laptop sleeves available.
But do it for science, right? ;)

33. Find us You can also take the survey online at:
Or find i2CAT’s booth at:
Between DANTE and RIPE NCC.

34. Thanks for listening
QUESTIONS?

35. Backup SLIDES

36. Protocol Architecture
M2M network
Web Service
User Access
Http
Resource control
Juniper- Netconf
Cisco- WSMA (on coming)
Mantychore Server
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT

37. Federation Architecture
Users can configure resources from external domains
Create/configure
Logical switches
Logical routers
IP networks
Provisioning L1 & L2
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT

38. Complete Gantt
WP4- SOFTWARE REFINEMENT