The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a facility concept being explored by the
United States
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computing community with support from the
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
. The goal of GENI is to enhance experimental research in
computer networking
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are ma ...
and
distributed systems
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...
, and to accelerate the transition of this research into products and services that will improve the economic competitiveness of the United States.
GENI planning efforts are organized around several focus areas, including facility architecture, the backbone network, distributed services, wireless/mobile/sensor subnetworks, and research coordination amongst these.
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See also
* Internet2
Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government. The Internet2 consortium administrative headquarters are located in Ann Arbor, Mi ...
* Future Internet
Future Internet is a general term for research activities on new architectures for the Internet.
History
While the technical development of the Internet was an extensive research topic from the beginning, an increased public awareness of several ...
* AKARI Project The AKARI Architecture Design Project was a project for designing a new generation computer network architecture supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. The name "AKARI" indicates "A small li ...
in Japan
References
External links
GENI home page
NSF
GENI Initiativ
overview
NSF
GENI Project Offic
* Foreign, independen
presentation
on GENI.
* A new
describing GENI plans.
* A new
referring to GENI.
* Another new
article
regarding GENI.
Computer network organizations
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