Surya Nepal, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Jonathan Chan, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Shiping Chen, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
David Moreland, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
John Zic, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Today?s networking and storage providers can typically offer a limited range of services to their customers because of their reliance on a small, preferred range of infrastructure technologies. The providers do this in order to deliver effective, well-understood services for their customers and minimise the risk associated with developing solutions from a variety of different technologies. They each deliver a particular solution for their customers. However, from the customers? point of view, the provisioning of innovative, customised services that go beyond the services of a single infrastructure provider is very attractive. This paper presents a service-oriented architecture based on a well-established business model - the Virtual Network Operator (VNO) that allows the providers to meet their customers? complex requirements. Our proposed architecture uses virtualisation techniques to abstract the infrastructure services in such a way that new customised, value added services can be composed using existing infrastructure and/or VNO services, and then offered to customers. We illustrate our approach through two case studies of infrastructure services: storage and networking, and present the Web Services technologies we have developed for infrastructure virtualisation.
Index Terms:
SOA, Web Services, Virtualisation, Business Models, Storage, Virtual Network Operator
Citation:
Surya Nepal, Jonathan Chan, Shiping Chen, David Moreland, John Zic, "An Infrastructure Virtualisation SOA for VNO-based Business Models," scc, pp.44-51, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), 2007