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100x100 Project Partners With Internet2 to Create Testbed for 'Clean Slate' Network Research
Internet2 (08/20/08)
Internet2 announced that it has partnered with the 100x100 Clean Slate
Project to create dedicated nationwide network facilities to enable
researchers to reexamine the basic infrastructure of the Internet. Using a
national testbed network designed by Rice University and Stanford
University, project researchers will develop new networking technologies to
address the Internet's current challenges, which include scalability,
security, and access. The National Science Foundation-funded 100x100 Clean
Slate Project is working with economists, security and networking experts,
network operators, and policy specialists to develop a network that goes
beyond the current Internet. Using technology trends and experiences from
the past 30 years, the researchers are trying to re-prioritize the
fundamental principles that underlie network design to create networks that
will be ubiquitous in scale, provide revolutionary amounts of bandwidth, be
economically self-sustaining, and resistant to attack. "The 100x100
Project strives to create technology that will make it viable for all 100
million homes in the U.S. to have at least 100 megabits per second of
connectivity," says Stanford University professor Nick McKeown, a
co-principal investigator for the 100x100 Project. McKeown says the
project has partnered with Internet2 to deploy a breakable nationwide
network testbed that will be used to test and validate many architectural
ideas. As part of the program, researchers have developed new programmable
hardware routers based on the Stanford University-developed NetFPGA
platform, which allows researchers to build working prototypes to
experiment with different types of routers, protocols, and methods for
better processing of packets and network routing.
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