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Name: Consolidated Connection Service
Start Date: 1. 14. 2018
End Date: 30.69.2018
Pilot Description:
The Consolidated Connection Service is successor of the BoD service. It provides fully transparent Ethernet circuits over the Geant network using specific software tools for automated provisioning. Key characteristic of CCS are:
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Average number of circuits requested by GTS per one month is approximately 400.
Objectives:
The pilot of the CCS should prove that the service is ready for to be a successor of current Geant's connection oriented services. The pilot will be done by JRA2 T1 in cooperation with SA1 in order to prove the service as designed in real production conditions. There will be a complementary technology pilot of the OpenNSA as a future Geant's implementation of the NSI protocol for the automated circuit provisioning. The CCS uses the NSI protocol for the circuit provisioning and the connection service provided will evolve in time. The initial definition is in fact a best effort EVPL type of service. There is a plan for upgrade the service specification by allowing to specify other QoS parameters like required bandwidth and request a guarantee for meeting that parameters in next version of CCS. This depends on the further development of the OpenNSA and also on technological features available in Geant backbone.
The pilot has following main objectives : with corresponding Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators.
| Objective | Success Factors | Key Performance Indicators | Notes |
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| To prove the service concept and its automated provisioning |
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Collect operation experience. (to involve SA1) |
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| To test the whole provisioning system reliability |
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Explain the objectives for the pilot - what does the pilot want to test / prove. Define Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Means of verification:
How it will be checked if the pilot has met the defined objectives. Consider also conducting a survey among pilot participants. Each objective might have their own means of verification. Since this page will be used for pilot closure, the table is created with the third column stating is the objective is verified and reached or not. This should be populated before the end of the pilot and be used for pilot success assessment.
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