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.