NorthStar Controller

 Features:

• Provides complex interdomain path computation and network optimization services.
• Employs sophisticated, industry-leading path computation algorithms.
• Addresses multilayer optimization with multiple user-defined constraints.
• Provides specific ordering and synchronization of paths that are signaled across routed network elements.
• Offers a global view of network state for monitoring, management, and proactive planning.
• Features predictable, deterministic network state within a margin of error for demand forecasts.
• Minimizes distributed state and increases efficiency of existing network elements by offloading control-plane processing.
• Creates a foundation for additional centralized network infrastructure services through an API for the network.
• Simplifies operations by enabling SDN programmability control points across disparate network elements.