Transport API development and validation for the Netphony environment

Abstract

This final degree project contributes to the development and implementation of the connectivity service and the topology service of the Transport API (T-API) in the set of Netphony modules, developed by Telefónica I + D, and then the validation of that. Netphony follows an Application-Based Network Operations (ABNO) architecture which can be defined as an architecture based on collaboration between different elements, for automation processes in the management of a network , as configuration of LSP routes, which makes the network more scalable and dynamic, where the main elements are the ABNO controller and the PCE. This is the purpose with software defined networks (SDN), to achieve a fully programmable network and the ability to modify any demand of the network automatically. Validation and performance tests with the Netphony controller have been performed in a GMPLS nodes emulated environment, with OSPF and RSVP to carry out the configuration of the LSPs between the nodes, thus conforming the emulated environment of Netphony GMPLS. The T-API standard meets the requirements to become the NBI (North Bound interface) of the Netphony. The main characteristics of this standard is its simplicity and usability to extend it in different types of transport networks. This work focuses on the implementation for optical networks. Documentation of the technologies used and the current state of the same is the first part of this work, to then present how the T-API has been integrated into the Netphony controller, use cases and definition of the validation tests. Finally, the implemented code has been compiled, the creation of LSPs has been configured and a performance evaluation has been carried out