[CAnet - news] Mashups for network virtualization for GENI researchers

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Mashups for network virtualization for GENI researchers

March 15 - Ottawa

Teams from the University of Ottawa, Communications Research Center, i2cat,
Inocybe Technology, University du Quebec a Montreal, Solana Networks and
Carleton University today carried out demonstrations of the next generation
of UCLP (User Controlled LightPaths) setting up live real time network
virtualizations (Articulated Private Networks - APNs) across the CA*net 4
production network.

The research teams demonstrated "mashups" where each network element such
as, virtual routers, optical switches, virtual storage, instruments,
wireless devices, time slices, lightpaths, and MPLS links can be represented
as a web services and then linked together with BPEL workflow to create a
network virtualized instance.

Cyber-infrastructure teams and network researchers in Canada who are
interested in research on a prototype GENI-like infrastructure can assemble
these various web services into multiple network virtualizations (APNs)
running their own protocols and services.  More importantly UCLPv2 allows
for the deployment of many several parallel virtualized networks - for
example one network could be used to support traditional IPv4 routed
applications, while another parallel network could be running IPv6 or some
other advanced protocol. UCLP also allows users to "spawn" new virtualized
networks, at any time, without requiring setup or permission of any central
operator. This will allow for the easy migration of new services and
protocols.  This capability is already available on CA*net 4 today with over
30 separate virtualized networks or APNs used for various network research
and cyber-infrastructure applications.  It also allows researchers to carry
out experimentation in various new services such as security, active
networking etc

The significance of web services for GENI-like infrastructures is that users
no longer have to think of the future Internet as having a fixed or static
architecture defined by network engineers or service providers.  Instead the
future Internet may be dynamic and agile where communities of interest can
define on the fly, their own network topologies, protocols and services for
their particular application or research.  These communities can decide
themselves whether the network will use virtual routers and/or optical
switches and protocols that is important for their particular applications.


In essence UCLPv2 extends the Internet end-to-end principle from the
application domain to the physical domain. Already there are many P2P
overlay networks riding on top of the Internet. UCLP extends these overlay
P2P networks to the physical layer. 

UCLPv2 over CA*net 4 is precursor to the planned GENI network in the USA.
Projects like the proposed GENI initiative are critically important as they
are simply more than a future Internet testbed - they may very well be the
future Internet!

Presentation and details of the demonstrations are available at:
http://grid2.canarie.ca/wiki/index.php/Workshop_2_-_Minutes_of_meeting

www.uclp.ca

http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/index.html

For information on GENI please see:

http://www.geni.net/


A draft background paper on UCLPv2 and GENI is also available 


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