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July 22, 2008, 03:45 PM ET
Next-Generation Internet Effort Gets More Federal Money
The next-generation Internet is creeping ever closer. Today the contractor developing networking tools for that new creation, called the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, said that it was awarded a three year grant worth approximately $4-million a year from the National Science Foundation. BBN Technologies, the contractor, said the money will be used to construct GENI Spiral 1, a set of functional prototypes. Twenty-nine university-industrial teams will be selected to build these prototypes through an open, peer-reviewed process, the company said. Seventy-four such teams had submitted proposals.
Leaders of the project recently hit reset on the GENI project. Some university researchers had complained that the initial plan for GENI was moving too fast. The biggest question is whether to push to build a massive test-bed computer network that researchers at universities around the country to could try out. Some wanted to do that right away, but for now leaders decided to do more research and planning on exactly what kind of test network to build.
So in March, officials rechartered (and renamed) a research advisory panel for the project and began inviting researchers from disciplines outside computer science to participate, including economists, social scientists, and theorists who study networking. And they’re building a series of small test-bed networks to perform experiments on in the meantime. A report in The Chronicle provides more information on the project’s new direction. —Josh Fischman and Jeffrey R. Young
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