The LambdaCat open testbed facility: An innovation facility to test multi-layer devices on a real environment

Abstract

This paper describes the LambdaCat experimental infrastructure, which provides an open facility to test and validate research, experimental, and pre-production equiment and sevices aligned with Future Internet technologies. The LambdaCat validation platform is composed by three transparent and colourless ROADM-based nodes, which are deployed in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The experimental infrastructure is virtualized in order to offer logical isolated substrates to enable simultaneous disruptive research experiments in productive environments without interfering to parallel research users. An IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model is adopted to be aligned with the user infrastructure needs. The implemented services allow end users to test new telecommunications equipment and services. The experimental services are accessible at different network layers (L1, L2 & L3) to test new technologies and protocols, from core to access networks. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2011.