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15 April 2021
Europe/London timezone

RARE Router for Academia Research & Education

15 Apr 2021, 12:00
30m

Standard Presentation Main Session UKNOF47

Speaker

Frederic LOUI (RENATER)

Description

RARE (Router for Academia, Research, and Education) is an effort under the GEANT 3rd program where is focused on determining if a routing software platform solution can fit research and education use-case purposes. The project integrates different pieces of software separated into the following building blocks:
(i) control plane: it uses FreeRouter under the hood;
(ii) data plane: P4 is used to describe the behavioural model; and
(iii) communication interface between control and data planes: an interface compliant to P4Runtime specification.
The project deployed a P4 Lab distributed among various European countries. The testbed comprises Intel/Barefoot Tofino WEDGE100BF32X and APS2556X-1T switches powered by the TOFINO Network Processor Unit (NPU). They are geographically currently spread through the following locations: Amsterdam (AMS), Frankfurt (FRA), Poznan (POZ), Budapest (BUD), Paris (PAR), Geneva (GVA), Murcia (UMU), Bilbao (UPV/EHU) . Additional expansion location are planned in the US, Latin America.
The session presents an overall description of the project, the key technology opportunity for organisation powered by a DYI DNA and the major milestones achieved since the beginning of the project in January 2019.

Talk Duration 25 Minutes Presentation (+5 Minutes Q&A)
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Primary authors

Mr Csaba MATE (KIFU) Frederic LOUI (RENATER)

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