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Second, an integrated Distributed Telemetry and Sensing (DTAS) platform, named AQUILA DTAS will be developed to give support to network operation applications, as well as to provide packet-optical networks with telemetry-as-a-service and sensing-as-a-service capabilities that can be exploited by network operators as business opportunity, e.g., for providing monitoring of environmental and climatic events. AQUILA DTAS consists of local telemetry and sensing systems that collect and process data from local devices and systems. Then, a centralized system stores data coming from the local systems in the different sites, as well as other data coming from external systems. This hierarchical architecture enables the deployment of telemetry pipelines that require the deployment of defense-in-depth mechanisms for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of telemetry and sensing data.

Third, a multilayer, multi-domain, and multi-segment packet-optical network digital twin (NDT), named LIBRA NDT, will be developed, extending and integrating the technologies and functionalities from three available systems for the quantum domain, optical, and packet domains. The result will be a multi-technology NDT with multifaceted knowledge of the infrastructure, spanning multiple segments such as access passive optical networks and metro/core multilayer packet-optical networks. Several use cases and algorithms will be designed and implemented for guaranteeing the resilience of the e2e multi-technology packet-optical network, such as combined QoT of optical connections and QoS of network flows, failure management and predictive maintenance, and network surveillance and threat/attack detection/response.

Finally, this project will develop an Intelligent and Secure Distributed Control (IDC) system, named HYDRA IDC. The aim is to assist the centralized control plane in the control of connectivity services near-real-time. HYDRA IDC consists of a centralized intelligence running besides the network orchestrator and a local intelligent control running in each of the network sites. The centralized intelligence is in charge of the deployment of individual per-service intelligent distributed control systems, including the secure deployment of the containerized intelligent agents, as well as of supervising deployed sIDC systems. Local intelligent control includes a set of connectivity service intelligent agents from different sIDC systems. Each agent collects telemetry and sensing, processes them and/or sends the data to a remote agent in the same sIDC system.