On the feasibility of Web 2.0 technologies for network management: A mashup-based approach

Mashups are a new breed of Web applications, created through the integration of external resources available on the Web. Recently, they have been considered a hallmark of Web 2.0 technologies, placing the end user on a developer role and encouraging both collaboration and reuse. Following the increasing efforts in investigating new approaches to network management, mashups present themselves as a technology that can bring several advantages to the field. However, to this date, the usage of mashups in network management remains unexplored. Therefore, the present paper approaches this subject, proposing a Mashup Development Tool to network management. We discuss both the architecture of such system and a proof of concept prototype. We them employ our prototype to address the case study of integrating Autonomous System routing information.