Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
High-Performance Interconnects, 2007. HOTI 2007. 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2979-0
DOI :
10.1109/HOTI.2007.18
