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Manual Multi-Domain Routing for Geant E2E Links with the I-SHARe Tool

Authors:
Mark Yampolskiy
Wolfgang Fritz
Wolfgang Hommel
Gloria Vuagnin
Fulvio Galeazzi

Keywords: manual routing; backbone connections; management processes; tool-support

Abstract:
The term routing is usually associated with the fully automated routing in computer networks. Various routing techniques, protocols, and strategies have been established in LANs, WANs, Internet, and PSTN networks. However, all these routing approaches rely on a pre-installed, pre-configured, and well-maintained network infrastructure. The process of planning the network infrastructure remains the stronghold of manual planning. Whereas the planning within a single provider domain is a very common task for all network service providers (SPs), the planning of multi-domain backbone connections introduces several additional challenges, such as the coordination of connection options among multiple SPs’ planning teams. In this paper we present the I-SHARe (Information Sharing across Heterogeneous Administrative Regions) tool, which has been developed in the pan-European collaboration Géant in order to foster inter-provider collaboration during the planning and operation of multi-domain backbone connections.

Pages: 98 to 103

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-141-0

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011