Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 1July 2011 www.geni.net

GEC11Glenn Ricart

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Vision

• Jumpstart a new era of advanced apps and infrastructure for mainstream America– Couldn’t run on today’s mainstream Internet– Order of magnitude greater speed or more– GENI-style

• Public-private partnership between– GENI community– Cities and their small businesses, homes,

and community anchors– Carriers and hardware vendors

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Ignite Next Generation of Apps

• Characteristics– Couldn’t run on today’s mainstream Internet– Need order of magnitude greater speed and/or– Built on layer 2 and OpenFlow– Need slices, programmability, unique resources

• NSF intends to ignite next-gen apps– Contest for ideas– Contest for prototypes– Solicit development requests from teams

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Advanced Testbed

• GENI network (built on Internet2 + NLR) plus• Connections to small businesses and homes

- Chattanooga - Cleveland- DC - Lafayette- Philadelphia - Utopia + UEN

And possibly other community anchors

• With– 100 Mbps+ symmetric– GENI-style layer 2 + OpenFlow– Unique resources

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Expected Growth of U.S. IgniteYear Campuses Cities

2012 14 existing GENI 6 currently identified

2013 30 most deserving 20 looking for now

2014 60 50

2015 100 100

2016 200 200

Growth is expected via the “buddy system”

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Activities• May 16th Workshop

– www.nsf.gov/cise/usignite/usignite_workshop.jsp• June 9-10th Workshop

– www.cccblog.org/2011/05/16/live-webcast-the-u-s-ignite-gigabit-applications-workshop/

• Possible early fall NSF workshop– Let me know if you want an invite

• Watch for a contest announcement• Recruiting for phase 2 cities / carriers• U.S. Ignite official announcement

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Contacts

• OSTP: Nick Maynard– Nicholas_C._Maynard@ostp.eop.gov

• NSF: Suzanne Iacono– SIacono@nsf.gov

• Consultant to GPO: Glenn Ricart– GRicart@gmail.com

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America’s Network for Next-gen Applications