Enabling federated cloud networking

Cloud federation enables cloud providers to collaborate and share their resources to create a large virtual pool of resources at multiple network locations. The BEACON H2020 project focuses on one aspect of achieving cloud federation, namely, enabling federated cloud networking. We define a cloud network architecture that enables interconnection of different clouds powered by different cloud platforms and virtualization technologies and enables effective network function virtualization across clouds. The long term vision of the project is a fully virtualized data center for federated clouds with fully integrated virtualized compute, storage and network resources across clouds.