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Network measurement and monitoring are instrumental to network operations, planning and troubleshooting. However, increasing line rates (100+Gbps), changing measurement targets and metrics, privacy concerns, and policy differences across multiple R&E network domains have introduced tremendous challenges in operating such high-speed heterogeneous networks, understanding the traffic patterns, providing for resource optimization, and locating and resolving network issues. There is strong demand for a flexible, high-performance measurement instrument that can empower network operators to achieve the versatile objectives of effective network management and resource provisioning. In this demonstration, we present AMIS: Advanced Measurement Instrument and Services to achieve programmable, flow-granularity and event-driven network measurement, sustain scalable line rates, to meet evolving measurement objectives and to derive knowledge for network advancement. 

Network measurement is critical in network management such as performance monitoring, diagnosis, and traffic engineering. However, conventional network measurement software tools are inadequate in high-speed network at scale. They also lack an event-driven mechanism to automate complex network measurement process. In this paper, we present Edi-son which contains an high performance measurement backend (Ares) to collect flow metrics, driven with an expressive frontend (Equery) to enable the composition of complex measurement tasks. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of our Edison framework on a distributed measurement platform deployed for 100Gbps international research networks.