Release TeraFlowSDN 2.1

High Performance SDN Framework:

• Enabled scalability of the TeraFlowSDN microservice.
• Added LinkerD Service Mesh for advanced inter-microservice traffic distribution.
• Enabled observability of the microservices’ performance.
• Enabled horizontal auto-scaling of the microservices.

Hardware and L0/L3 Multi-Layer Integration:

• Added support for management of complex multi-layer multi-technology services.
• Added a load generation tool for performance assessment with a graphical WebUI.
• Improved XR driver to support multi-layer services.
• Extended OpenConfig/NetConf driver support for L2/L3 packet devices and ACLs.
• Implemented new OpenConfig/gNMI driver to configure packet router interfaces and static rules. The gNMI driver features telemetry streaming.
• Improved support for P4 whitebox management.

SDN Automation:

• Refined the monitoring framework with additional KPIs.
• Enabled metrics collection and auto-scaling of the Policy component.
• Extended the WebUI to expose the configured policies.

Transport Network Slicing and Multi-Tenancy:

• Improved multi-tenancy support.
• Implemented support for Slice Grouping.
• Implemented IETF Slice NBI.

Cyberthreat Analysis and Protection:

• Migrated the CyberSecurity frameworks to TeraFlowSDN Release 2.1.
• Added horizontal auto-scaling capacities to the optical and L3 cybersecurity frameworks.
• Updated the AI/ML models to improve threat detection effectivity.
• Added Grafana dashboards to monitor the CyberSecurity frameworks.

Distributed Ledger and Smart Contracts:

• Added a Distributed Ledger Technology performance assessment tool.

Interworking Across Beyond 5G Networks:

• Migrated Interdomain component and demonstrations OECC/PSC’22 and NFV-SDN’22 to TeraFlow Release 2.1.

Others:

• Multiple bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Updated database schemas and protocol buffers definitions.
• Improved deployment scripts.
• Improved code documentation.