● NICT
As Japan's sole National Research and Development Agency specializing in the field of information and communications technology, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is charged with promoting ICT sector as well as research and development in ICT, which drives economic growth and creates an affluent, safe and secure society.
● SC20 Demonstration
NICT is demonstrating the P4-Testbed, "Wide Area SDN Testbed" at URL below;
https://p4-testbed-demo.jgn-x.jp/
* NICT P4-Testbed
- Five P4 BMv2 switches in Japan.
Plan to incorporate "Barefoot Tofino" switches into P4-Testbed in 2021.
- Muti-tenant capabilities
In our SC20 demo, we create two network slices on the P4-Testbed automatically. Both slices have IP routers and a few virtual machines(VM) on their networks.
The NICT promotion video stream is distributed from an edge VM to another VM over one slice, while another slice is used to transfer a volume of data.
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P4
Programming
Protocol-Independent
Packet
Processors
Next Generation SDN Technology
DATA PLANE Programming
+++ P4 Consortium (https://p4.org/) +++
- Protocol Independent
P4 programs specify how a switch processes packets.
- Target Independent
P4 is suitable for describing everything from high-performance forwarding ASICs to software switches.
- Field Reconfigurable
P4 allows network engineers to change the way their switches process packets after they are deployed.
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● NICT testbeds
1. "JGN" High Speed R&D Network Testbed,
2. "P4-Testbed" Wide Area SDN Testbed,
3. "StarBED" Large Scale Emulation Testbed, and
4. "JOSE" Large Scale IoT Service Testbed.
● P4-Testbed
Currently, P4-Testbed provides software-based P4 switches (BMv2) on five sites in Japan. The testbed users can create several networks (slices) having P4 switches and virtual machines(VM) on P4-Testbed.
