TF-NGN - Next Generation Networking
Available European/National Test Beds| Countries | Test bed | Description | Contact person | Reference information | Test activities | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium France Germany Hungary Switzerland |
Eurolabs | Paul Van Binst | New networking technologies, applications and services | Till October 2007 | ||
| France | PlaGE | French Gigabit testbed | Hervé Prigeant | Slides | IP premium, MPLS, ... |
Temporary |
| Germany | VIOLA | Integration of applications+network tests, dynamical bandwidth allocation | Peter Kaufmann | Testbed description | Routers, switches, signalling based on MPLS, VPLS, GMPLS, UNI, NNI, ... |
May 2004 April 2007 |
| Greece | Testbeds of Gigabit IP routers running MPLS over DWDM | 1st one will be the production Athens MAN witd 3 PoPs and the second one is a pilot project with Universities and Research Institutes |
Fotis Karayannis | Testbed Description (MS
Doc)
GRnet Testbed (PPT slides) |
IP QOS, MPLS traffic engineering, MPLS resilience, MPLS VPNs |
1st: Q12002, 2nd: Q1/2002-Q2/2002 |
| Italy | Garr-G Pilot (in Italian) |
Italian Gigabit testbed | Mauro Campanella | Slides | IP premium, Shaping, ... |
Temporary |
| The Netherlands | NetherLight | Multiple international 2.5Gbit/s and 10Gbit/s connections between Amsterdam,
Chicago (StarLight), New York (MANLAN), London, Geneva, Prague and
Stockholm.
National connections: up to 32x 1GE lambdas to ASTRON/JIVE, the main radio astronomy computing site in Europe. NetherLight is part of GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility. |
Roeland Nuijts, Dennis Paus, Erik-Jan Bos | NetherLight
GLIF |
LightPath switching and scheduling between Europe, the US and Canada for those networking applications that demand few-to-few, high-speed (1Gbps and 10Gbps) connectivity | From Jan. 2002 |
| Poland | Pionier | Polish Optical Internet | Szymon
Trocha (MPLS) Michal Przybylski (QoS) |
MPLS/QoS testbed | MPLS QoS |
Temporary |
| United Kingdom | SuperJANET4 | 2.5Gbit/s IP test network between 3 core nodes in tde UK. (Testbed is currently not operational) |
Rina Samani | Testbed diagram |
IP QoS, MPLS Traffic Engineering, IPv6. |
From Q1/2002 |