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GEYSERS

Generalised Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services System

GEYSERS project, funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, aims to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators to enhance and complement their traditional set of business models. The technological enablers for this are latest advances in physical resource partitioning, logical infrastructure composition and network control plane architectures, which allow network operators (service providers) to operate highly specific, cost-efficient, dynamic, and application demand driven networks. The GEYSERS project further enhances infrastructure provider positions by providing a mechanism for seamless integration and provisioning of network and IT resources. Such Future Photonic Network that can support an IT-services-oriented Future Internet architecture will enable and foster the emergence of novel domains of distributed applications which ultimately bring in a whole new and powerful market opportunity for infrastructure providers and network operators.

GEYSERS will define and implement a novel photonic network architecture, capable of provisioning ‘Optical Network + Any-IT’ resources to network operators for end-to-end service delivery. GEYSERS propose a revolutionary vision under an evolutionary approach that follows a network centric and bottom up strategy. This vision is based on partitioning the photonic network infrastructure to create specific logical infrastructures, composed by optical network and IT resources. This composition will overcome the limitations of networks and domain segmentation. Each logical infrastructure will be controlled by an enhanced Network Control Plane capable of provisioning Optical Network Services bundled with IT resources in an on demand basis. Furthermore, the logical composition of photonic networks will enable the GMPLS/PCE control plane to dynamically scale infrastructure resources based on the Network Operator needs.

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Elements of innovation and research more relevant

GEYSERS aim to define a new global architecture for the Network of the Future, capable of seamless and coordinated provisioning of optical network connectivity and IT services, which will allow flexible, adaptive and dynamic association as well as integration of heterogeneous IT resources and optical network infrastructures.

The GEYSERS main objective is to define, develop and validate an end-to-end optical network composition and service provisioning architecture capable of coupling heterogeneous high capacity optical networks and any-IT infrastructure in a dynamic and seamless manner.
The GEYSERS architecture will address the full integration of the optical network substrate with the attached network edges and IT resources into a single infrastructure. This composition into a logical infrastructure will span administrative boundaries, technological and segment boundaries and endpoint resources. The GEYSERS Network Control Plane will be responsible for supporting the required architectural and protocol extensions to go inter-domain (inter-domain path computation, security framework, transparent monitoring, recovery procedures and inter-domain signalling).

 

Industrial and/or social benefits resulting from the project

GEYSERS will introduce a new architecture that will re-qualify the interworking of legacy planes by means of a logical infrastructure representation layer for network and IT resources. The GEYSERS innovations aim to establish a breakthrough in the design and implementation of Future Networks. They are expected to attract a global interest and generate considerable feedback across inter-disciplinary stakeholders.

GEYSERS will provide dedicated support of highly-IT reliant distributed mission critical enterprises applications, by defining a Future Network architecture that enables infrastructure providers, network operators and application providers to contribute in a business model where complex services with complex attributes can be pooled.
GEYSERS aims to have a major impact in the way the future networking is performed and the way the future Internet is exploited. This will directly affect the global economy, science and individual users.

 

Current project status

The GEYSERS project is currently in the phirst development phase, started on January 2010 the 1st.

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