The Role Of Sdn In Application Centric Ip And Optical Networks

Transport IP/optical networks are evolving in capacity and dynamically configuration. This evolution gives little to no attention to the specific needs of applications, beyond raw capacity. The ACINO concept is based on facilitating appilcations to ecplicity specify requirements for requested services in terms of high-level (technology agnostic) requirements such as maximum latency or reliability. these requirements are described using intents and certain premitives which fecilitate translation to technology specific configuration approach, SDN must have a key role in this evolution. There are representative use cases where SDN gives an added value when considering not only the network but application layer.