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Why perfSONAR?

The perfSONAR infrastructure is open and any tool can take advantage of it. Many perfSONAR services and monitoring applications have already been implemented as standalone measurement tools. Weathermaps, looking-glasses, IPPM measurements, and many other monitoring applications have already been implemented using the perfSONAR framework.

Technical Overview

perfSONAR is a services-oriented architecture -- the set of elementary functions have been isolated and can be provided by different entities called services. All those services communicate with each other using well-defined protocols. Below are links to an overview of the perfSONAR:

Design Goals

The design goals for this project include flexibility, extensibility, openness, and decentralization. The resulting architecture should be: