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[Xavier Jeannin <>]

Great news Frédéric

Congratulation Carmen

Regards
Xavier

Le 02/12/2021 à 17:50, Frédéric LOUI a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I’m pleased to announce that the GÉANT P4 lab has integrated a new P4 switch 
> @ CERN (E513-E-YECWH-1)
>
> Integrated does not mean it is exclusive to GP4L, CERN keep the right to 
> extract the switch from the topology anytime.
>
> However, integration means that:
>
> * E513-E-YECWH-1 will be supervised by CERN  NMS tool chain
> * besides E513-E-YECWH-1 benefit from NMaaS tools
> * If multicast is available from leg connecting the P4 switch.
>    Practically,means that any users from CERN is able to receive multicast 
> natively from any source within the P4 lab.
>    —> imagine  CERN (T0) streaming in unicast a large quantity of flows
>           This stream can be converted to multicast into the BIER P4 Domain
>           any T1 or T2 computing centre interested in this streams will be 
> able to receive it instantly _NATIVELY_ or via AMT-relay.
>          And this without any flow modification (except from AMT tunnel tail 
> leg).
>
> This P4 switch will be also used by CERN in order to validate their use case 
> requirements:
> "Traffic flow steering based on IPv6  flow label »
>
> In addition to that, CERN has surrounded this P4 switch 3 additional DTN.
> One of them is being also tested as a RARE/freeRtr with DPDK dataplane.
>
> Beginning next year, these DTN will become 100GE capable. This paves the way 
> to exciting transatlantic traffic engineering with north/latin America.
> Lots of research project can benefit from the outcome of these experiment.
>
> Thanks to Edoardo and large kudos to Carmen for her thorough 
> involvement/energy in deploying this setup.
>
> Stay tuned !
>
> All the best,
> Frederic

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