[CAnet - news] Good example of using UCLP on Geant2 network in Europe

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An excellent use case example of UCLP on GEANT 2 network in Europe is
available by engineers from i2Cat who are going to present at the coming
Terena Networking Conference. The paper is based on an example application
that aims to demonstrate its use for National Research and Educational
Networks in Europe (which are connected to the Geant2 network)

UCLP is often confused with various bandwidth on demand and bandwidth
reservation systems.  Personally I am not a believer in such traditional
circuit switched approaches to networking. Besides the inevitable call
blocking problems associated with such architectures, the cost of optical
transponders is dropping dramatically and so it is much easier to provision
several nailed up parallel IP routed networks then deal with the high OPEX
costs of managing a circuit switched environment. 

UCLP is provisioning and configuration tool that allows edge organizations
and users to configure and provision their own IP networks and do their own
direct point to point peering.  The traditional network approach, whether in
the commercial world or R&E world is to have a central hierarchical telco
like organization manage all the relationships between the edge connected
networks and organizations.  UCLP, on the other hand, is an attempt to
extend the Internet end-to-end principle to the physical layer. It is
ideally suited for condominium wavelength or fiber networks where a
multitude of networks and organizations co-own and co-manage a network
infrastructure.

Thanks to Sergei Figuerola for this pointer -- BSA]

UCLP case study on GEANT2 network
(http://tnc2007.terena.org/programme/presentations/show.php?pres_id=99)

For open source downloading of UCLP:
http://www.uclp.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=77

The community edition will be available soon: http://www.inocybe.ca/


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