NETCONF-based network management system collaborating with aggregated flow mining

As the speed of the Internet getting higher and accommodating a broader range of applications' traffic, it becomes more difficult to monitor, analyze and manage the network traffic. To realize automatic network management of high-speed networks, we have developed two systems. One is a high-speed per-flow basis traffic analyzer using aggregated flow mining (AFM) that works with links of 10Gbps or higher. The other one is a network management system (NMS) using NETCONF as configuration protocols between NMS and network elements. For automatic network management, it is important that the NMS has flexibility to control a wide variety of network elements and also capabilities so that it can collaborate with flow collectors that capture and analyze network traffic data flows. To meet these requirements, a new application programming interface (API) that enables an NMS to control network elements, which include flow collectors, was developed.