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[OT]call for backers: open source hardware for networking innovation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (huc@ieee)
Tue Mar 3 20:11:37 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "huc@ieee" <huc@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:47:04 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


Sorry for a little bit off topic.

This email is to inform you a new open source hardware for networking =
innovation called ONetSwitch. It is an all-programmable networking =
platform combining ARM and FPGA in a 17cm*13cm area (notebook size) for =
testing and verifying research idea related to networking. Different =
from previous FPGA develop board like NetFPGA/Xilinx PCIe board, host PC =
is not required any more for ONetSwitch, and it is smaller, cheaper, and =
more power efficient. and more flexible.

We have launched the ONetSwitch project on Kickstarter.com weeks ago. =
You can get an abstract from the short video, which will not take you =
long to get our idea :-)=20
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetswitch/onetswitch-open-source-har=
dware-for-networking

We had a paper at ONS 2014 presenting the preliminary design of =
ONetSwitch =
(https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/ons2014/ons2014-paper-hu_c=
hengchen.pdf) and a demo at SIGCOMM'14 setting a data center testbed on =
only desktop using ONetSwitch =
(http://nskeylab.xjtu.edu.cn/people/huc/Pub/DesktopDC_2014.pdf). In the =
new version now at kickstarter, we add further physical support on =
802.11 AC, mSATA, which suits for more scenarios. Also, we have open =
source ref. design and supporting wiki available at github =
(https://github.com/MeshSr/wiki/wiki/REF-OpenFlowSwitch-HWFT). The =
processing logic can be modified in both software (ARM) and hardware =
(FPGA) to fit your own needs. Although it is currently highlighted =
mainly on SDN and DCN, we aim to provide the research community a way to =
set their testbeds for any networking innovations easily.=20

I send the info. about ONetSwitch to this mail list since I think it may =
be useful to guys in this community. Please do us a favor and back us to =
get your own programmable testbed. We believe ONetSwitch would give much =
help to your research and development work. Also, can you help =
distribute it to friends and colleagues who will be interested with =
this? Even for the guys, who do not need ONetSwitch but think it is =
good, we greatly appreciate you to back us with $1 for encouraging.

Regards,

Chengchen

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Dr. Chengchen Hu,=20

ERCIM Fellow
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Associate Professor (Sabbatical leave till Oct., 2015)
Xi'an Jiaotong University

http://nskeylab.xjtu.edu.cn/people/cchu
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