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The CCS is an abstraction of network functionality and some physical entity which could be pointed as "the CCS thinginstance" is probably the NSA agent Network Service Agent (NSA) - the Geant NSI aggregator. It provides the NSI interface (the API) which different other systems can use to request circuits. Such system can be a Connection Service GUI or other more complex services like GTS application, or NSAs of foreign network domains.
Users
User of the CCS can be anyone (or anything - in case of other system like GTS) who (which) needs a connection between two defined termination points.
Possible currently known users are:
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- Geant Testbed Service (GTS): uses the CCS for Ethernet virtual circuits
- Connection Service GUI: successor of the current BoD service portal - can be used by network operations to automatize circuit provisioning (currently done manually for Geant plus), or can be used by users directly
- Other network's NSAs (member NRENs, or partner networks around the world) which needs a connection trough Geant core for their users
Average number of circuits requested by GTS per one month is approximately 400.
Contacts
All operations, business development and stakeholders contacts
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