Future Internet testbeds / experimentation between BRazil and Europe (FIBRE) is a

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project co-funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Council for Scientific and Technological Development or CNPq) of

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and the

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under the seventh of the

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(FP7).

Objectives

The project claimed it would design, implementation and validate a shared

Future Internet Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet. History While the technical development of the Internet was an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of severa ...

research facility, enabling experimental research into network infrastructure and distributed applications. Programmable test networks can lower the barrier to entry for new ideas, increasing the rate of innovation in network infrastructure. Virtualization of networks is accomplished by the use of virtual routers and the multiplexing of links between them. These programmable testbed networks call for programmable switches and routers that, using virtualization, can process information flows for multiple isolated experimental networks simultaneously. It is envisaged that a researcher will be allocated a slice of resources across the whole network, consisting of a portion of network links, packet processing elements (e.g. routers) and end-hosts; researchers can program their slices to behave as they wish. A slice could extend across the

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, into access networks, into college campuses, industrial research labs, and include wireless networks, sensor networks, and may (or should) include real users of the applications it supports.

Deployment

FIBRE is composed of several experimentation nodes, called islands, across

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and

. Two of the three European islands are based on a part of the

Future Internet Research and Experimentation Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) is a program funded by the European Union to do research on the Internet, its prospects, and its future, a field known as "future Internet". History Some researchers met with government official ...

project called OpenFlow in Europe (OFELIA) that used

OpenFlow OpenFlow is a communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router (computing), router over the network. Description OpenFlow enables network controllers to determine the path of network packets across ...

deployed by the

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and the i2CAT Foundation in

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. The third European island is based on the NITOS testbed, maintained by the Network Implementation Testbed Laboratory of the

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in Greece as part of OneLab2 and OpenLab projects. In Brazil, ten islands are being deployed in several universities from all the country.

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