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SUMMARY
The current decoupling between applications and network layers leads to inefficient resource utilisation and over-provisioning, where the network connectivity is not tailored to the cloud dynamics.
The GEYSERS project seeks to address this problem. The project seeks to construct a virtual infrastructure representation layer for optical network and IT resources. It also enables a new business model where the resources of Infrastructure Providers are partitioned and dynamically offered as a service to Virtual Networks Operators.
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SOLUTIONS
- Providing a novel architecture that enables infrastructure providers, network operators and application providers to participate in new business scenarios.
- Offering complex services, with complex attributes, and strict bandwidth requirements economically and efficiently to users and applications
- Designing an enabler for the integration of Dynamic Optical Network services in Cloud Computing scenarios.
- Specifying and developing mechanisms that allow infrastructure providers to partition and virtualise their resources (optical network and/or IT), compose specific virtual infrastructures and offer them as a service to Virtual Network Operators
- Overcoming the current limitations of networks/domain segmentation, and will support dynamic and on-demand changes in the virtual infrastructures.
- Producing an enhanced Network Control Plane to couple optical network connectivity and IT services automatically and efficiently, and provide them in one single step, dynamically and on-demand
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LINK: http://www.geysers.eu/
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