StarLight’s policies, processes, and techniques are transforming the IRNC StarLight SDX into an innovation platform that supports an incubator stream, a pipeline for new services, architectures, and technologies, which, when proven through experiments, trials, and demonstrations, are migrated to production environments. The StarLight facility currently supports 25-30 experimental network testbeds simultaneously and participates directly in these testbeds, investigating research topics, and facilitating network innovation, trials, and ongoing experimentation. Consequently, StarLight provides a wide range of specialized production peering and interconnection facilities specifically tailored for large-scale science applications. Notably, the following computer-science testbeds/facilities enable StarLight to investigate, define and develop emerging and anticipated the science community’s requirements for future architectures that support required networking services.
StarLight SDX Large-Scale Testbeds For SC Conferences
CienaOPn Research On Demand Network Testbed
Cisco ICN Testbed (Content-Centric Networking)
Compute Canada/CANARIE Science Data Transfer Testbed
ESnet 100 Gbps Testbed Network
GENI Multi-Services Exchange SDX Network
Illinois Express Quantum Communications and Networking Testbed (Forthcoming, 2020)
International BigData Express Testbed
International Data Mover Challenge 100 Gbps Testbed
International Global Environment for Network Innovations (iGENI) SDN/OpenFlow Testbed
International PetaTrans Testbed
KREONET SD-WAN Testbed (KREONET-S)
LHCONE P2P Prototype Service International Dynamic Multi-Domain L2 Service for HEP
NASA Goddard Space Center High End Computing Network (HECN) Testbed
OMNInet Optical Metro Network Initiative
Pacific Research Platform (PRP)
ROBIN Data Services Platform Testbed (Rucio / BIgData Express / SENSE)
SEAIP DTN-as-a-Service Testbed
SENSE Testbed (Intelligent Network Services for Science Workflows)