Emulation of backbone's connectivity and management for the advanced network in Latin America: 2016's topology

Abstract

CLARAs backbone (Latin Americas Consortium for Advanced Networks) was stagnated in 2013 with just one 10 Gbps links and ten backbone nodes. In 2016 CLARAs backbone was updated having nine 10 Gbps links ant thirteen backbone nodes. Following CLARA s backbone evolution, simulation as first approach and emulation as a second approach were developed for connectivity and management for each node of the comparisons for simulation, emulation and real operation are discussed including some recommendations for next steps in CLARAs backbone.