RAU2 testbed: A network prototype for evolved service experimentation

Abstract

The Academic Network of Uruguay (in spanish Red Académica Uruguaya - RAU) comprises several universities, research centres and government institutions. RAU is planning a major upgrade, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) is being evaluated as a technology which may promote the deployment of improved network services, while allowing researchers to keep on investigating over the operational network. To this end, we are building an evolved “RAU2” network prototype, in order to test the feasibility of the proposed architecture.