EAGER Proposal - White Box Switch Testbed

EAGER 提案 - 白盒开关测试台

• 批准号: 1535522
• 负责人: Luke Fowler
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535522&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Proposal; White; Box; Switch

Recent developments and availability of commoditized White Box (WB) and Bare Metal switch designs along with open network operating systems have opened the door for new and open source approaches to network software development. Interest is growing in the research community in these devices and the extraordinary development possibilities these devices enable, which may have long term implications for greatly expanding the national infrastructure at lower cost and with increased programming flexibility. Potential advantages of this emerging movement to the research and education networking community include; lower cost of ownership for commercial off the shelf hardware; development on widely available Linux-based network operating system; easier integration of network provisioning into available cloud orchestration tools; reduced time in deployment and provisioning; and increased intelligence throughout the network.This exploratory project at Indiana University investigates the scalability, functionality, and performance of WB platforms in combination with network operating systems and software defined networking technologies including OpenFlow implementations. The project includes creation of a testbed that is shared with network researchers.

最新的开发以及商品化的白盒（WB）和裸金属开关设计以及开放网络操作系统的可用性为网络软件开发的新的和开源的方法打开了大门。这些设备中的研究界的兴趣正在增长，这些设备启用了非凡的开发可能性，这可能对以较低的成本和增加的编程灵活性大大扩展国家基础设施具有长期影响。这一新兴运动对研究和教育网络社区的潜在优势包括：货架硬件较低的商业所有权成本；开发广泛可用的基于Linux的网络操作系统；更容易将网络配置集成到可用的云编排工具中；减少部署和供应时间；并提高了整个网络的智能。印第安纳大学的探索性项目研究了WB平台与网络操作系统和软件定义的网络技术（包括OpenFlow实施）的可扩展性，功能和性能。 该项目包括与网络研究人员共享的测试台的创建。