  Application service providers (ASPs) now develop, deploy, and maintain
complex computing platforms within multiple cloud infrastructures to improve
resilience, responsiveness and elasticity of their applications. On the other
hand, complex applications have little control and visibility over network
resources, and need to use low-level hacks to extract network properties and
prioritize traffic. This biased view, limits tenants flexibility while
deploying their applications and prevents them from implementing part of the
application logic in the network. In this paper, we propose the CNSMO (CYCLONE
Network Services Manager/Orchestrator) tool to bring the innovation at
federated cloud environments by bridging these network service capabilities to
cloud based services as part of the overall CYCLONE solution. The integration
of networking aspects with purely federated clouds, will allow users to request
specific infrastructures and manage their dedicated set of coordinated network
and IT resources in an easy and transparent way while operating dynamic
deployments of distributed applications.
