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Objectives
The scope of the proposed activity will be to develop, test, validate and pilot with selected demanding end users a secured and resilient cloud-based service delivery platform (C-SDP). In particular, key strategic objectives for SatADSL are to:
- Further develop current markets, both commercial and governmental, and address new verticals through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or directly toward end-users.
- Increase currently operational SatADSL Cloud-based Service Delivery Platform (C-SDP) capability by adding security and resilience o both the service delivery infrastructure and the services offered.
- Increase C-SDP cybersecurity level from “Reactive” to “Anticipatory” (proactively addressing future issues and challenges)
- Extend Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business to larger teleports by guaranteeing service quality (obtaining equivalent World Teleport Association – WTA teleport certification)
- Achieve economies of scale by fostering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) partnership with multiple Teleports targeting demanding market segments.
Challenges
The fact that the system is geographically distributed has impacts on its security and resilience. When looking at security, geographical distribution adds to the challenge in terms of physical protection and cyber-security of each Point-of-Presence (PoP) and their interconnections. When looking at resilience, geographical distribution provides an opportunity by introducing physical redundancy among PoPs. Nevertheless, a number of technological challenges must be faced in order to achieve functional redundancy among PoPs.
The activity scope is the enhancement of SatADSL Global Service Delivery Network to make it resilient against catastrophic events, terrorism, natural disaster etc. In case, for example, of a natural disaster or terrorist attack in Singapore damaging the local POP the traffic must be automatically re-routed to the closest POP. This will add some latency to the service, but there will be no significant interruption of service.
Other key challenges will be:
- To ensure that any general network downtime due to cyberattacks will not exceed 0,01% per year
- To ensure continuity of service in case of SatADSL network component failure with a possible service interruption of no more than 10 seconds
- To ensure continuity of service in case of SatADSL POP failure (due an external event) with a service interruption of no more than 9 hours
- In the case of a redundant user segment (with 2 satellite terminals at user site) to ensure that service interruption will be less than 1 hour
- To ensure end-to-end service availability of more than 99,5% availability per month
- Develop a secured MarketPlace aiming at aggregating the various players in the value-chain
System Architecture
The product consists of the SR C-SDP. The main components of the product (building blocks) for the purposes of the project are
- The Traffic Shaping and Routing System (TSR)
- The Customer Management and Monitoring Tools (CMT)
- The Network Performances Monitoring System (NPMS)
- The secured Satellite Service Configurator (Marketplace)
- The Redundant User Segment
The product is illustrated in the following high-level block diagram, which identifies the key building blocks and major interfaces.
The following product tree is a hierarchical breakdown of the product into the hardware and software elements (building blocks) that are required to perform the product functions (features):
Plan
The Project has a duration of 24 months, starting with a phase of 3 months to consolidate the requirements until the Baseline Design Review Milestone. This milestone sets the start of the architectural design period (3 months until the Critical Design Review) followed by a development period of 6 months until System Acceptance Test foreseen in April 2021. Once the product is accepted, it will be piloted during one year. Final Review is foreseen in March 2022.
Current Status
The Contract has been signed during the summer of 2020 and kicked-off the 11th of September. The baseline Design Review is planned for the 22nd of October 2020.