Network Description Language Update

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Network Description Language Update

• Jeroen van der Ham
• System and Network Engineering Research Group
• Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Outline

• Current Provisioning
• Network Descriptions
• NDL Recap
• Tools for NDL

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Current Control Plane
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Current Provisioning Process
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Current Provisioning Process
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Ultimate Goal of GLIF
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Network Descriptions - GLIF
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Network Descriptions - GOLE
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Network Descriptions - iGrid
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Network Description Language
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NDL Example
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NDL Generator
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NDL Generator (ctd.)
http//trafficlight.uva.netherlight.nl/NDL-Demo/
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NDL Generator Result
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NDL Validator
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NDL Visualisation
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NDL Visualisation (ctd.)
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GOLE Descriptions
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GOLE Descriptions (ctd.)
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Enhanced Visualisation
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Six easy steps to NDL GLIF

• Generate description of the exchange point
• Publish description on a webserver
• Send URL of description to Kevin
• URL is posted on GLIF Resources site
• For each external connection
• Once relevant description is available, update
  your description to link to theirs
• Conctact them to do the same
• Periodically, the interactive map will be updated
  to show results

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Future Research

• Path finding in GLIF
• Network Abstractions
• Multi-Layer Network Descriptions
• Implementation
• DRAGON
• Phosphorous

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References

• http//www.science.uva.nl/research/sne/ndl/
• http//trafficlight.uva.netherlight.nl/NDL-demo/
• http//staff.science.uva.nl/vdham/NDL/googlemap.h
  tml

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NDL Web Services
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NDL Web Services - Result