Internet2 Donates Bandwidth to Support Next Generation Internet Research
Ann Arbor-based Internet2 and the GENI Project Office said Tuesday that Internet2 will donate bandwidth on its national backbone to support GENI subcontractors and the GENI Project Office.
The GENI Project Office is located at Raytheon BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Mass. Internet2's connections will support the emerging GENI meso-scale prototype, which now spans over a dozen U.S. campuses, with direct connections at 10 backbone locations.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) is a virtual laboratory for exploring future Internets at scale, now rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the United States. It supports experiments on a wide variety of advanced research in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber security, networked services, and applications.
GENI will enable "at scale" experimentation for controlled and repeatable experiments to improve scientific understanding of complex, large-scale networks, and for "in the wild" trials of services that piggyback or connect to today's Internet and engage large numbers of participants, along with instrumentation, data archival and analysis tools for both.
This new "Phase 2" agreement builds on Internet2's previous network investment in the GENI community and provides donated network resources through July 2012. Internet2 will contribute eight 10 gigabits per second and five one gigabits per second connections across its nationwide network. GENI subcontractors and developers will be able to access the network at every Internet2 connection point to enable nationwide collaboration to further design and development efforts on GENI meso-scale prototypes.
More at www.internet2.edu or www.geni.net.
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