Implementing and Deploying Network Monitoring Service Oriented Architectures: Brazilian National Education and Research Network Measurement Experiments

Abstract

Recently there is a growing interest in accessing network measurement and status data across multiple domains, in order to detect eventual network problems which can hinder the use of advanced applications. Diversity on network technologies, technical solutions and network managers add to the complexity of providing such information. In order to facilitate the performance data access and visualization, some initiatives have been directed to the development and deployment of network monitoring service oriented architectures (NMSOA). This paper aims at presenting RNP's End-to-end Performance Working Group activities on implementing and deploying two of these architectures: piPEs-BR and perfSONAR. Initially it is presented an overview of related work, followed by a detailed presentation of these architectures. perfSONAR is being jointly developed by Internet2, Geant2, RNP, and the University of Delaware. We focus on the components developed by our WG and our experience on deploying this measurement environment at Ipe and Clara networks. The paper concludes with a presentation of the major learned lessons with these experiences and which can be useful to deploy such environment in other NRENs, followed by our concluding remarks and pointers for future directions.