Network Virtualization: Building Community

Jen Rexford

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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

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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/

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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