COSIGN presentation at the BEACON plenary meeting as part of collaboration activities

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COSIGN
COSIGN presentation at the BEACON plenary meeting
February 25th 2016
IBM Haifa research LAB Advanced System Technologies department

2. © 2016 IBM Corporation2
Vision & Objectives
Novel DCN architecture combining optical technologies (port-density, high bandwidth, low latency,
low power consumption), SDN (programmability), and orchestrated management (automation)

3. © 2016 IBM Corporation3
System integration
Software
Hardware
IBM
I2CAT
Polatis
Venture
NXW
ICL
UPC
DTU
UNIVBRIS
UNISOUTH
OFS
TUE
PHOTONX
Partners
1. DTU Fotonik - Technical University of Denmark
2. Interoute Communications (ICL)
3. NeXtworks
4. i2CAT (DANA)
5. Polatis
6. UNIVBRIS - University of Bristol
7. Venture - Venture Photonics
8. UPC (Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya)
7. UNISOUTH - University of
Southampton (ORC)
8. TuE
9. Photonics Networks
10. IBM
11. OFS

4. COSIGN
Orchestrator
Data Center
Data Centre NetworkCompute Storage
VMVMVM
Applications
SDN-based Control Plane ControllerHypervisor
COSIGN Layers
• Orchestrated Management
• SDN Control
• Optical, Flat, Dynamic
Data Plane
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For two main use-cases:
1) Virtualized application (vApp) - IBM
2) Virtual Data Center (VDC) - UPC

5. COSIGN
Advanced Scenarios – vApp Use Case
Virtualized application in a public cloud
• User
– Application owner who has decided to become
cloud tenant and run his app as a cloud service
• User triggered operations
– Create application template (AppTempate)
– Deploy application defined by the template
– Undeploy a running application
– Optional – stop, pause, resume, health check, repair, …

6. COSIGN
Advanced Scenarios – VDC Use Case
Virtual Data Center
• User
– Cloud service owner with strict requirements to interconnect
(type/quality/topology); can be the cloud provider who offers IaaS
over shared infrastructure
• User triggered operations
– Create VDC template
– Provision VDC resources as defined
by the template
– Optional – destroy, health check,
modify, …

7. COSIGN
OpenStack based COSIGN Orchestrator
High Level Design
Management
and
Orchestration
Heat
COSIGN DCN
Orchestrator
Neutron
OVN
Plugin
Optical
Extensions
Nova
Users/Clients Horizon CLI
Infrastructure
NETWORKCOMPUTE
New Templates
and Resource
Plugins
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New Algorithms2
New APIs and
Resources
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vApp vDC

8. COSIGN
vApp: COSIGN Orchestrator, its components, and interactions
with the DCN Control and the DCN Data Planes
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