Cisco Academic Research Programs

1. Cisco Academic Research Programs JJ Jamison NLR Project - ARTI Team john.jamison@cisco.com

2. Agenda • ARTI Team - Academic Research and Technology Initiatives Team • URP – University Research Program • CARD – Cisco Applied Research and Development program • NRNs - National Research Networks • NRP - NRN Research Program • NLR – National Lambda Rail

3. ARTI Team • ARTI focuses primarily on two areas: • research programs: URP, CARD, NRP • advanced research and education network activities: National Research Networks (NRN), Regional Networks, Government Research Networks, Supercomputer Centers, and Research/Higher Education Institutions world wide • ARTI is not part of Cisco’s Sales organization • ARTI is part of Cisco’s Engineering Organization • Bob Aiken reports to Charlie GiancarloCisco’s CTO/CDO

4. ARTI Leadership • Bob Aiken • Director of ARTI • Formally at Argonne National Lab, DoE Headquarters & NSF • Javad Boroumand • Senior Manager, NRNs & NRP • Formally at NASA, USC-ISI, & NSF • Graham Holmes • Senior Manager, URP & CARD

5. Amy Blanchard Chris Buja Ole Jacobsen JJ Jamison Kevin McGrattan Robin Penn Matt Schmitz Chas Smith Carol Stillman Michael Turzanski Doug Walsten Steve Wolff ARTI Team Members

6. Academic Research at Cisco • There is no “Cisco Research” organization or “Cisco Labs” • ARTI houses the only Cisco corporate-wide academic research programs (URP, CARD, and NRP) • There are other organizations within Cisco that fund academic research • CIAG - Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group • Business Units (BUs) and other groups can and do fund academic research on their own • Tech Center – pre-BU product development

7. Cisco Academic R&D Applied Research Research Development Early Deployment Production Deployment URP ARTI CARD NRP (NRN RP) R&E Networks CIAG BU Business Unit R&D Tech Center

8. URP, CARD, and NRP Why is Cisco funding external academic research instead creating a “Cisco Labs”? Why not use the same strategy as Howard Hughes? Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator: “Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA I'm doubling it, all right? You work for me now. Find some clouds. Find some clouds! Find me some clouds!”

9. Timelines and engagement models

10. URP Description • URP funds specific research projects of interest to Cisco • at universities and other not-for-profit institutions worldwide • via unrestricted cash and equipment gifts • to faculty and research scientists • URP has no funds for center membership, consortia joining, conference support, teaching labs, endowed chairs, non-research fellowships, etc.

11. University Research Board • Board of Cisco experts, advisory to the URP • URB tasks: • Set strategic direction for URP • Identify, solicit, and evaluate quality research proposals • Maintain appropriate programmatic balance and relevance • Represent their Cisco organization interests

12. Cisco Champions • Cisco Champions are Cisco developers who act as technical liaisons with funded researchers • A key part of URP to realize mutual value and benefits of funded research • We will NOT accept and evaluate a proposal without a Champion. We do provide opportunity for Champion identification prior to submission deadlines • We will not fund a proposal without a Champion

13. Criteria for evaluating proposals • Intellectual merits of proposed research • Qualification and track record of Principal Investigator(s) • Relevance/importance to Cisco and/or industry • Support of a Cisco Champion for the project

14. Grant Type • “Unrestricted Gift” – i.e., a grant, not a contract • No formal deliverables • Open publishable results • Intellectual Property Rights remain with PI(s) and institution • Zero or very small overhead taken by institution

15. Proposal and grant information • Accept unsolicited proposals in networking technology from Principal Investigators • 2 page proposals – could be more • Deadlines twice per year • 1 year awards - renewals compete with new proposals • Awards range up to $100K/year/project – average is $70K; one PI may have multiple projects • Awards are in cash and equipment

16. URP program examples • Analysis and Visualization of IP Connectivity • CAIDA/SDSC • All Optical Header Recognition • University of Maryland • Improving the Robustness of Multicast in the Internet • UT Dallas/UCSB • ISP Negotiation for Coordinated Traffic Engineering • University of Washington

17. CARD program description • Applied research program designed to shorten development cycle or add value to product R&D efforts • Close collaboration between researcher and Cisco developer • Usually initiated by a BU • Agreement/contract may be multi-year • Initial funding by ARTI, 2nd & subsequent years (if any) require BU buy-in • Intellectual Property Rights contractually settled before work begins

18. CARD program examples • Network Infrastructures Support in P2P and Overlay Networks - Stanford University Study Objective: first-step in looking at how routing infrastructures can support new applications such as P2P and overlay networks • Meta-CLI Technology - University of Quebec Montreal Study Objective: Develop meta-language for analyzing complex CLI scripts • IPv6 Renumbering Study – University of Southampton & University of Meunster Study Objective: Gain practical experience in IPv6 renumbering implementations

19. NRP description • Promote system-level research to complement technology focused research under URP and CARD • Drawing from specific technologies plus research in management, economics and policy; evolving the architecture a key driver • Collaboration between networking researchers, distributed systems researchers and NRN operators • Experimenting in real live network environments with real user traffic and applications

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21. Research in NLR • NLR is about both providing infrastructure and support for: • Experimental networking research • Production high-performance networking for science (and other) applications • NLR is not just a single network but an evolving infrastructure to enable researchers to build multiple networks (production and experimental) • Critical for NLR and regional/campus network operators work together to extend NLR capabilities and services to the interested researchers • Network operators as partners in experimental networking not just facility providers

22. Cisco in NLR • Why is Cisco involved in NLR? • MORPHnet: Jan 97 paper byAiken, Carlson, Foster, Kuhfuss, Stevens, and Winkler • the R&E community needs a flexible research network that is both production and experimental • NLR and Cisco have a strategic relationship focused on joint research interest and not a vendor-customer relationship • This relationship is managed by Cisco’s ARTI group and not out of the sales organization

23. Cisco in NLR • Cisco was an early founder of NLR and is its largest contributor • Our major goal is to drive network technologies development, tech transfer and commercialization through experimental networking research in NLR • Using NRP funds Cisco and NLR will soon announce the NLR Research Program • for more info contact research@nlr.net

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