Introduction & Vision

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.

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MANTICORE vision

MANTICORE vision Physical Router

• Users share the same physical infrastructure.

• Each Router Instance can be temporarily owned by a different User (Router Instances offered as IaaS).

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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

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

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