Adrian Farrel

The Internet Protocol (IP) has become the global standard in any computer network, independent of the connectivity to the Internet. Generally, an IP address is used to identify an interface on a network device.

The forwarding of packets in today's networks has long evolved beyond ensuring mere reachability of the receiving endpoint.

Historically, the meaning of an IP address has been to identify an interface on a network device.

This document describes the principles of traffic engineering (TE) in the Internet.

Network abstraction is a technique that can be applied to a network domain to obtain a view of potential connectivity across the network by utilizing a set of policies to select network resources. Network slicing is an approach to network operations that builds on   the concept of netwo

This document describes network slicing in the context of networks built from IETF technologies.

This demonstration showcases how TeraFlowSDN provides support for hierarchical control of multiple heterogeneous SDN domains (through IP, microwave and optical technologies). Different transport slices are offered with multiple SLAs and grouped to optimize resources.

We present P5; an event-driven policy framework that allows network operators to realize end-to-end policies on top of P4-based data planes in an intuitive and effective manner.

This demo presents the TeraFlowSDN controller as a solution to provide dedicated transport network slices with SLAs. To this end, the demo details how the interface between an NFV orchestrator and the SDN controller can provide transport network slices using protected disjoint paths.

The Internet has been constantly evolving beyond its original purpose to ensure the reachability between endpoints wherever they may be located.