Examples of (real life) use of the GP4L testbed

• (2024) Toward Terabit-Scale Anonymous Communication Leveraging Programmable Switches demonstration at SC24
• (2024) Experimental implementation of DTN-as-a-Service and AIDTN Support For 400G WAN
• (2024) The automation and orchestration of the testbed management functions have been developed in the GP4L playground environment
• (2023) MultiONE (Routing and forwarding of scitags-based IPv6 packets) implementation on programmable switches (https://indico.geant.org/event/2/contributions/161/attachments/150/330/TNC23_CarmenMisa_EdoardoMartelli.pdf)
• (2023) Validation of an innovative network monitoring service, nmaas (micro-services powered by Kubernetes container orchestrator)
• (2022) Novel network management workflow based on embedded Prometheus agent into RARE control plane
• (2022) Validation of a cost effective multicast architecture powered by P4 switch
  • Learning Multicast Patterns for Efficient BIER Forwarding with P4
• (2021) After successful publication of the Polka paper, it has been decided to implement this routing paradigm to the RARE routing stack
• (2021) Traffic flow steering based on IPv6 flow label implemented by CERN network engineers
• (2020) The GP4L experimental testbed has been used to validate a Research Paper describing a innovative source routing paradigm: Polka

GP4L dissemination activities

• (2024) SC24 Network Research Exhibition: Demonstrations, GP4L - Global Platform For Lab
• (2024) SC24 INDIS workshop, Agile Network Management: The Impact of Automation and Orchestration
• (2024) RIPE SEE 12, Orchestrate day-to-day operations based on a single source of truth
• (2024) JRES2024, A Reusable Approach to Network Service Orchestration
• (2024) TNC24, Orchestrating Smooth Operations - The case of GP4L
• (2024) Internet 2 Technogoly Exchange, On the Automation and Orchestration Journey, Lessons Learnt
• (2024) GNA-G side meeting @ TechEx2024, The Global Platform for Labs
• (2024) SC24 NRE demonstration, International P4 Experimental Networks for The Global Research Platform and Other Research Platforms
• (2023) GEANT infoshare, Network Technologies Workshop, GP4L
• (2023) GNA-G meeting @TNC23, GP4L
• (2023) APAN56 conference, GP4L updates and use case
• (2023) Internet 2 Technogoly Exchange, GP4L in GN5-1
• (2023) SC23 NRE demonstration, Global P4 lab