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Network Virtualization: Building Community. Jen Rexford. Community Building. Cross FIND project meeting (Dec ’06) MetaRouter and Cabo projects met at WashU Project overviews, and sync-ing on terminology Great synergy, and complimentary prototyping VINI summer camp (Princeton, summer ’07)
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Network Virtualization: Building Community Jen Rexford
Community Building • Cross FIND project meeting (Dec ’06) • MetaRouter and Cabo projects met at WashU • Project overviews, and sync-ing on terminology • Great synergy, and complimentary prototyping • VINI summer camp (Princeton, summer ’07) • VINI facility (http://www.vini-veritas.net/) • Students from GA Tech, Princeton, TU Berlin • Visitors from KTH and U. Tokyo • Collaborating on building and using VINI • Building developer and user communities
Workshops • Format • Small and interactive, with white papers and talks • Researchers (including students) and practitioners • WIRED (Oct ’06, at GA Tech, ~30 people) • Workshop on Internet Routing Evolution & Design • Mix of researchers and a few practitioners • http://wired2006.org/ • PRESTO (May ’07, at Princeton, ~40 people) • Programmable Routers for the Extensible Services of Tomorrow • Mix of ISPs, vendors, start-ups, and researchers • http://cabernet.cs.princeton.edu/presto07/
PRESTO Take-Aways • Blurring of routers and servers • Running services on the routers • Disaggregation of the routers • Open-source software routers • Commodity router hardware components • Network logic in separate servers • Different notions of programmability • From bare metal to libraries to build new services • Virtualization • Simplify network management and testing • Enabling deployment of new services