Welcome to the GÉANT NMaaS home page
Here you can find a general overview of the concept on NMaaS
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Information about the list of tools currently offered by NMaaS is available at NMaaS Tools page.
For more details on how to get a hands-on experience with the latest version of NMaaS go to NMaaS Playground page.
Be sure to check out the new blog entries like [ #001 ] NMaaS-101 - "Hello NMaaS !" and others.
NMaaS Infoshare Presentations
The latest NMaaS Infoshare online session took place on November 25th 2020. You can view all the slide decks below.
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NMaaS service statistics
Following data is extracted real time from the NMaaS production service running at https://nmaas.eu.
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NMaaS Introduction
Why do we need NMaaS?
Today’s network services are complex:
- Heterogeneous network infrastructures
- Increasing numbers of value-added services and features
- Services are becoming mission critical
The cost and complexity of developing and integrating in-house network management may to too high for many NRENs and Institutions. Same time out-of-the-box solutions might not be suitable and might be costly.
NMaaS aims to support these users to provide an effective, efficient network and service management platform.
What NMaaS offers?
NMaaS simplifies intra-domain networkmanagement by providing the infrastructure and tools via a cloud-based, network management system.It enables management and monitoring of client networks through on-demand deployment of network management tools in the cloud infrastructure.
Using a multi-tenant approach, each NREN or Institution has private access to their network and services from a highly available cloud based platform.
Who is NMaaS for?
Small and Emerging NRENs
Smaller NRENs may have limited resources to develop their own NMS
By using a shared and supported platform, NRENs can focus on the monitoring and management of their service components
Campuses
NMaaS platform is ideally suited for Campus Network Management
Small Organisations
NMaaS supports the needs of institutional users, Either on an NREN managed NMaaS platform or a centralised GÉANT platform.
Distributed research projects
By using a managed platform, projects can focus on their core research and development activities.
How NMaaS works?
NMaaS uses a secure shared cloud platform managed by the GÉANT Project.
Each user has a isolated tenant environment connected over a VPN to his network.
Users can deploy and access network management applications via a web portal.
NMaaS Tools
Tools portfolio available via NMaaS application market place
NMaaS provides a range of modular tools to support network management needs
A web-based portal provides the user front end
Users can select the tools required for their purposes and create a customised toolset tailored for their network
How can NMaaS be used?
Option 1 Organisation implementation
Each participating organisation offers a platform for their participating institutions
GÉANT Project co-ordinates development and standards and provides 2nd level support for the software usage
Option 2 GÉANT Project implementation
GÉANT Project offers a centralised platform for participating NRENs and/or their institutions (“white labelled”)
GÉANT Project co-ordinates development and standards and provides the 1st and the 2nd level support for NMaaS use