Back to Home
  • FAQs
  • CONTACT US
  • SITEMAP
  • COOKIE POLICY
  • GEANT GATEWAY
  • About GEANT
    • Partners
      • NREN Development and Support
    • Governance and Management
      • Partners' Assembly
      • Executive Board
    • Activities
    • European e-Infrastructure
      • Europe 2020 and GEANT
      • GEANT Expert Group
      • Women in ICT
    • Value of GEANT
      • History of GEANT
  • Network
    • The Network
    • Network Operations
      • Operations Teams
      • Operations Centre
      • Network Security
    • Global Connectivity
      • Global Connectivity: The Benefits
      • Global Connectivity: World Regions
      • Global Users and Applications
      • How to Connect to the network
      • Global Service Collaboration
    • Research and Education Networks
    • Campus Best Practice
    • Environmental Impact
      • Carbon accounting
      • Adopting a Greener Corporate Outlook
      • Events & Case Studies
      • Sustainability Policy
  • Innovation
    • Research Programmes
      • Network Architectures for Horizon 2020
      • Technology Testing for Specific Service Applications
      • Identity and Trust Technologies for GEANT Services
    • Testbeds
    • Foresight
    • Open Call
    • Standards
  • Services
    • Connectivity Services
      • GEANT IP
      • GEANT L3VPN
      • GEANT Plus
      • GEANT Lambda
      • GEANT Open
      • GEANT Bandwidth on Demand
      • GEANT Testbeds Service
    • Network Performance Services
      • perfSONAR
      • eduPERT
      • GEANT Security
      • GEANT Framework
    • User Access and Applications
      • eduroam
      • eduGAIN
      • eduPKI
      • eduCONF
    • Cloud Services
    • Services Registration Authority
      • SSL Certificates
      • Request a Certificate
    • Namespace Registry
      • urn:geant Registry
      • URN: FAQs
      • URN: Request Form
      • geant.net/uri Registry
    • Training
      • Geant Showcase
  • Users
    • Health and Medicine
      • DECIDE
      • neuGRID
      • OutGRID
      • Sim-e-Child
      • TEMDEC
      • ITHANET
      • EMBL-EBI
    • Energy
      • CAREN
      • ITER
    • Earth Observation
      • PAGASA
      • EMSA
      • CAREN glaciers
      • TIGGE and GEANT
      • THEOS and GEANT
    • Particle Physics
      • LHCOPN
      • LHCONE
      • BELLE II and GEANT
    • Space
      • GEANT and ORIENTplus
      • EXPReS Project
      • NEXPReS
    • Society
      • Sichuan earthquake
    • Arts and Education
      • ShanghAI Lectures
      • LOLA
      • ASTRA Project
      • perfSONAR MDM
      • Opera Oberta
      • e-Education
    • Horizon 2020
    • User Advisory Committee
    • User Support
    • User Posters
  • News & Events
    • News
      • News Archive - 2013
      • Press coverage
    • Events
      • TNC 2015
    • CONNECT magazine
      • Archived Issues
    • Representing GEANT
    • Press Kit
    • Follow Us
  • Resources
    • Deliverables
    • Open Call deliverables
    • White Papers
    • Knowledge Sharing
    • Media Library
      • GEANT Case Studies
      • GEANT Media Library: Project videos
      • GEANT Media Library: Interviews
      • GEANT Showcase Presentations
      • GEANT Media Library: Audio
      • GEANT Media Library: Maps
      • GEANT Media Library: Brochures
      • GEANT Media Library: Presentations
      • User Posters
    • Partner Resources
      • Exhibition Stands
      • Image Library
    • Intellectual Property
  • Open Call
    • About
    • Applications and Tools
    • Authentication
    • Network Architecture and Optical Projects
    • Software Defined Networking
    • Videos

AAI
Collaborations
Foresight
Open Call
Research Programmes
Standards
Testbeds

​GÉANT Testbeds

The objectives of the GÉANT project are to provide a next-generation pan-European network and related services that meets the communications needs of research communities in all fields. Such needs include both a transport facility for production data and also a network environment where experiments can be conducted.

Within this phase of work, the project is introducing a new production Service Activity to support the network research community. The new “Testbeds as a Service” activity will provide two types of testbed capabilities. The first is a Dynamic Packet Network Testbed Service intended to address upper layer network research, and the second is a Dark Fibre Testbed intended to provide photonic layer long haul facilities for testing novel optical/photonic technologies in the field.

Dynamic Packet Testbeds

The GÉANT Packet testbeds is a service designed to dynamically construct network consisting of a variety of network resources – routing/switching resources, server resources, circuit and/or connection resources, storage resources, and specialized experimental hardware or software resources. This packet testbed facility is intended to be highly dynamic and virtualized, and will support emerging concepts and technologies such as Software Defined Networks and OpenFLow. The testbed networks constructed by the SA2 Packet service will be insulated from one another to prevent unanticipated behaviour from causing problems with other testbeds or other production services. The packet testbeds will be useful for rapid prototyping and will offer a realistic geographic footprint across Europe and will have access to external facilities and/or real traffic where appropriate.

Dark Fibre Testbed

The GÉANT dark fibre testbed is made up of dark fibre (DF) that has become available due to the recent GÉANT network migration. Five DF routes are available from October 2013 and can be used until contracts expire at the end of Q2 2015. The DF routes are:

  • London–Paris
  • Frankfurt–Geneva
  • Amsterdam–Frankfurt
  • Amsterdam–Brussels
  • Milan–Finkenstein–Vienna

These routes encompass approximately 2500Km of high capacity dark fibre infrastructure available for a variety of research and development activities.   These facilities are “dim” fibre systems – i.e. they include inline optical amplifiers and the support shelves at the terminal points from the Alcatel DWDM transport system from GEANT3. These route segments can be modified to remove or bypass the inline systems or may operate in conjunction with the existing systems.

Since the Dark Fibre Testbed Services are based upon physical infrastructure and require specialized engineering, researchers will be working closely with SA2 Engineering staff and DANTE to design and deploy the testbed experiments.

Visit   services.geant.net/gts   for more information.

  • GEANT
  • EU flag
  • European Commission Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • Copyright
  • Credits
  • Legal