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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the advantages of using the UCLP software for network operators, advanced and regular end users in the research networking community. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides an example of the deployment of UCLP in the GÉANT2/National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) scenario, and compares how network operators, advanced users and regular end users would do their work, with and without UCLP. Findings – The paper provides high‐level technical information about UCLP as well as depicting the drivers for its use in the European research networking community. Research limitations/implications – This paper does not explain the details of the deployment of the software in the GÉANT2/National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) scenario, it just explains the benefits that the deployment of the software would provide. If the deployment was to be done today, some improvements to UCLP should be done, as well as support for more equipment vendors should be added. Practical implications – UCLP could provide more flexibility to the e‐science community if it was deployed over the European research networking infrastructure, because it would isolate network users from each other while providing them an unprecedented degree of control over the network. Originality/value – Nowadays, several control/management solutions for networks exist, but none that is capable of partitioning a physical network into slices and handoff its management to the users, like UCLP does. This is the first UCLP paper that studies a hypothetical deployment of UCLP in the European research networking scenario, and evaluates the drivers and implications of such a deployment.

This paper aims to examine the design and implementation of an advanced ToIP platform for the interconnection of ToIP operators based on the concept of multilateral peering, with a special focus on the design requirements and implementation.

Based on the key design requirements of a ToIP peering platform analysed at the beginning of the document, an open source‐based network architecture is proposed. Subsequently, a detailed explanation of the elements and their functionalities that integrate both core platform and management platform is presented.

The paper finds that open source‐based ToIP platforms provide a cheap solution for deploying ToIP services such as ToIP peering. Although not as stable as hardware‐based ToIP platforms, software‐based platforms provide a very scalable high‐performance solution for delivering customised ToIP services.

The paper studies the implementation of advanced VoIP services such as video telephony and the call termination in public switched telephony network or mobile networks.

The deployment of an experimental ToIP peering platform in Catalonian will help to the large‐scale adoption of ToIP by both enterprise and residential customers. Furthermore, operators can reduce both capital and operating expenditures if they exchange traffic through the ToIP peering platform, reducing, thus, the cost of ToIP calls to end users.