Providing users with a Logical IP Network Service

This document provides the principles behind the MANTICORE project, whose main goal is to create an innovative service for the Network Operations Centre and end users that allows them to customize the configuration of their own dedicated IP physical and/or logical network through the use of a Web Services based Resource Management System. The motivation and the concept of this logical IP Network Service will be detailed and the software architecture of the first MANTICORE implementation will be explained (this implementation is based on the IaaS Framework, Infrastructure as a Service Framework).

The conceptualization of the IP routing (internal and external) is important when providing logical IP networks; thus, the basic ideas will be explained in this paper. Future implementations will be able to extend the concept to layer 0, 1, 2 (by integrating MANTICORE with the Argia and Ether products) and/or layers above layer 3. Some of the MANTICORE future work, like the interoperability with the IPsphere Framework, will be carried out as part of the activities of the FEDERICA FP7 European Project.