Control Plane Architecture
This document presents the LIGHTNESS control plane functional split, based on the Software Defined Networking architecture, providing a description of the architecture model and supported procedures. It also includes a possible deployment scenario where the LIGHTNESS control plane cooperates with end-to-end cloud orchestration and control functions for the provisioning of inter data centre network services in distributed cloud scenarios.
Low latency and high throughput dynamic network infrastructures for high performance datacentre interconnects
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European FP7 project
LIGHTNESS is a 3-year STREP project started on November 1, 2012. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 318606
