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Description and Tour
What
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WAIL is a one-of-it's-kind facility for
conducting network and distributed systems research. The vision is to be
able to recreate instances of the Internet from end-to-end-through-core
in a laboratory environment. What sets WAIL apart from other network test
beds is that real IP networking hardware is used to create
the network configurations used in tests. See our SPIE '02 paper or this
overview for more
details.
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Lab
Components |
Our objective is to enable arbitrary
interconnections and configurations of routing, switching and host components
found along any path in the Internet. To that end WAIL features over 50 IP
routers and switches, 100 end hosts and a variety of other networking gear
all housed under one roof. The scope and scale of these components will
continue to grow over time to reflect technology trends and enable
increasingly complex configurations.
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Operational
Processes |
Three important systems have been
developed to facilitate experiments in WAIL. The WAILworks
management environment enables users to create arbitrary configurations of
systems and then to run tests on these systems.
The
WAILnet delay emulator enables delays to be assigned to
any link between two systems. At present, external access to WAIL is
limited but we plan to make it openly available to any researcher.
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Sponsorships
& Collaboration |
WAIL has been enabled through the generous support of a
number of corporate sponsors. The founding contribution for WAIL was made
by Cisco Systems via the TOSA Foundation. We are currently engaged in
research collaborations with a number of our partners and are deeply
thankful for their support. Anyone interested in becoming a WAIL partner
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Take a Tour of WAIL |
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Learn about WAIL through this walk-through tour. begin
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WAILers |
Dave Plonka &
Ana Bizarro |
WAIL is co-managed by Dave Plonka
and Michael Blodgett. They are
responsible for WAILworks development, systems
management,external connectivity and are actively engaged
in a number of research projects.
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