1. Introduction & Vision

2. Introduction MANTICORE provides a software implementation and tools for providing and managing routers and IP networks as services. –Router as a Service: provide remote access to physical or logical routers and delegate the rights of use to allow to the customers the management and configuration as if they were the owners –IP Network as a Service: provide the access to an IP network, and delegate its rights in the same way that Router as a Service. By means of these services: –Infrastructure Provisioning: Physical/logical routers and IP networks –Connectivity Provisioning: IP networks already configured –Creation and configuration of IP networks MANTICORE will be deployed over the infrastructure of 3 NRENS: HEAnet, RedIRIS, NORDUnet MANTICORE will be used and evaluated by a user community formed by several research user groups. 2

3. 3 MANTICORE vision

4. Physical Router Users share the same physical infrastructure. Each Router Instance can be temporarily owned by a different User (Router Instances offered as IaaS). 4 Physical Link Router Instance (may be a physical router) User site Logical Link (may be a full physical link) Other user’s IP Network or the Internet IP networks can be made of Router Instances from different NRENs Each User’s IP Network is represented by a different color

5. MANTICORE vision Using the MANTICORE GUI users will be able to configure and manage that IP network remotely as if they were the owners of the physical infrastructure –Internal Routing (OSPF, RIP) –External Routing (BGP) - peering –IP addressing –Firewall –QoS –VPN 5