Hands-on with the NetFPGA to build a Gigabit-rate Router

Author

McKeown, Nick ; Lockwood, John W. ; Naous, Jad ; Gibb, Glen ; Covington, Adam

Author_Institution

Stanford Univ., Stanford

fYear

2007

fDate

22-24 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

10

Abstract

An open platform called the NetFPGA has been developed at Stanford University. The NetFPGA platform enables researchers and instructors to build high-speed, hardware-accelerated networking systems. The platform can be used in the classroom to teach students how to build Ethernet switches and Internet Prototcol (IP) routers using hardware rather than software. The platform can be used by researchers to prototype advanced services for next-generation networks. Hardware circuits within the NetFPGA will be implemented to measure and plot the occupancy of buffers. Circuits will be downloaded into reconfigurable hardware and tested with live, streaming Internet video traffic.

Keywords

Internet; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; logic design; routing protocols; Ethernet switches; Internet Protocol routers; NetFPGA; Stanford University; gigabit-rate router; hardware circuits; hardware-accelerated networking systems; reconfigurable hardware; streaming Internet video traffic; Circuit testing; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Internet; Next generation networking; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Streaming media; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Interconnects, 2007. HOTI 2007. 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1550-4794

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2979-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HOTI.2007.18

Filename

4296800