Growing traffic demands and increasing security awareness are driving the
need for secure services. Current solutions require manual configuration and
deployment based on the customer's requirements. In this work, we present an
architecture for an automatic intent-based provisioning of a secure service in
a multilayer - IP, Ethernet, and optical - network while choosing the
appropriate encryption layer using an open-source software-defined networking
(SDN) orchestrator. The approach is experimentally evaluated in a testbed with
commercial equipment. Results indicate that the processing impact of secure
channel creation on a controller is negligible. As the time for setting up
services over WDM varies between technologies, it needs to be taken into
account in the decision-making process.Comment: Parts of the presented work has received funding from the European
Commission within the H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant
agreeement n.645127, project ACIN