Network Virtualization: Building Community Jen Rexford

2 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 ( –Students from GA Tech, Princeton, TU Berlin –Visitors from KTH and U. Tokyo –Collaborating on building and using VINI –Building developer and user communities

3 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 – PRESTO (May 07, at Princeton, ~40 people) –Programmable Routers for the Extensible Services of Tomorrow –Mix of ISPs, vendors, start-ups, and researchers –

4 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