ALLEGRO Project: Scalable and Intelligent Data Architecture for Optical Networks

In the ALLEGRO platform, effective telemetry data management is key to enabling intelligent, real-time decision-making in complex optical networks. That’s why we’ve designed a hybrid architecture combining centralized and distributed databases, optimized for both local and global network insights.

🧠 Key Highlights of Our Architecture:

📍 Distributed Time-Series Databases
Deployed at each network node, these databases handle:

  • Storage and aggregation of telemetry from transponders, EDFAs, and links
  • Short-term performance prediction and local fault detection
    ✅ Powered by InfluxDB, ideal for scalable, high-availability, time-stamped data—perfect for ML and predictive analytics.

🌐 Centralized Database

  • Stores filtered or aggregated network-wide data
  • Supports end-to-end QoT estimation and optimized routing
  • Offers a unified view for proactive network management

📊 Real-Time Visualization
We leverage Grafana for real-time performance dashboards—giving operators deep visibility into the network at a glance.

⚙️ Robust Data Pipeline with Kafka + Telegraf

  • Telegraf (by InfluxData) collects and streams telemetry from diverse sources
  • Kafka acts as a central hub for reliable, low-latency message streaming
    • Kafka Producers → publish telemetry data
    • Kafka Brokers → manage and distribute data to consumers

This setup enables:
✅ Real-time monitoring
✅ Complex event processing
✅ Scalable analytics
✅ Seamless integration across distributed environments

The ALLEGRO database architecture sets the stage for next-generation network intelligence—enabling both localized automation and network-wide optimization.

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