VINI

VINI is a virtual network infrastructure that allows network researchers to evaluate their protocols and services in a realistic environment that also provides a high degree of control over network conditions. VINI allows researchers to deploy and evaluate their ideas with real routing software, traffic loads, and network events. To provide researchers flexibility in designing their experiments, VINI supports simultaneous experiments with arbitrary network topologies on a shared physical infrastructure.

VINI currently consists of 37 nodes at 22 sites connected to the National LambdaRail, Internet2, and CESNET (Czech Republic). The maps below show our current VINI deployments:

National LambdaRail deployment
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Internet2 deployment
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CESNET deployment
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Real-time status information for VINI nodes is provided by the CoMon project.