Overview
Goals and Motivations
By definition, RENs are the perfect environment where to test SDN. Historically, RENs are the ones providing high-quality production network services to Universities and Research Centers around the globe, while maintaining a standing leadership in network innovation. While innovating on the computing has been facilitated by the introduction of open hardware and Open Source software, network research has always been a hard - if not impossible job. Finally, SDN (and ONOS) gives the chance to Academia and Universities to run carrier grade networks, while enabling innovation.
The goal of the deployment is to provide L2 and L3 connectivity to end users, without using any legacy device in the networks, while enabling innovation
- Europe (through GEANT PAN European Network GTS testbed facility www.geant.net)
- Italy (through GARR network (www.garr.it)