In addition to the use of modified commercial equipment, what do people think about the use of a common hardware platform as part of GENI D&P? One option is the ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) platform (www.picmg.org/v2internal/newinitiative.htm), or a new version the ATCA300 platform (www.rtcmagazine.com/home/article.php?id=100478&pg=1), which offer an excellent opportunity for us to create a single unit that can include all, or a choice of, physical layer technologies (processing, storage, optical and wireless communications, switching and routing). Developing such a ‘research’ platform could provide us full programmability of the different substrate technologies.
Jon Turner presented a processing platform based on ATCA (see presentation at GENI Engineering Conference at www.geni.net), which already includes some of the basic software infrastructure that may support other technologies. If we could extend this approach to include different modules for all required technologies, this would provide an excellent research platform for all GENI folks to utilize.
From an optical perspective, an example could include modules that together provide a low-cost WDM communication system plus an ROADM module for wavelength switching - Universities in a region could potentially connect these platforms with dark fiber to create their own network, building and comparing different topologies and networking approaches to inform the next cycle of GENI design.
Please respond to this suggestion, plus, additionally, provide perspectives from other communities (e.g. wireless, networking, …) on how such a platform could be developed and used in this first cycle of D&P. An important aspect of such a D&P proposal would be the true ‘cross layer’ R&D to be carried out on the hardware. _______________________________________________
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