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- Support multiple cloud vendors across multiple NRENs
- Easy migration from existing virtualization visualization platforms
- Allow for university datacenter networks to be extended to cloud providers
- Low/zero maintenance and end-user tools for provisioning
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The network provisioning tool is basically a (multi-domain) BoD circuit on demand service. We propose to build a simplified single-domain version based on the tail-f configuration management software. Such a tool should be relatively easy to build once we have enough experience working with NCS.