ENDEAVOUR: Towards a flexible software-defined network ecosystem

This is the accompanying report of the demonstrator of Work Package 3 for month 24, where the implementation of the ENDEAVOUR monitoring platform is documented. In this report, we briefly discuss the organization of the code development, we then describe the implementation of the ele- ments of the ENDEAVOUR monitoring platform, and finally, present and document the demonstrators.

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