Test network

The test network is connecting the most advanced network research environments, allowing them to work together in areas such as:

• the creation of a national IPv6 infrastructure, connecting the universities' local IPv6 labs and the research projects carried out within them.
• experimenting with various functions to improve quality of service through the use of ATM, IPv6 functionality, or other Internet-based approximations.
• development of reliable multicasting to reduce the data transport load in one-to-many and many-to-many communication.
• research and experimentation with new protocols and serveces in a routed and/or switched network.

A restructured version of the former Supernett was used for this purpose until the summer of 1998. We saw a potential need for an alternative test network infrastructure, such as the IPv6 infrastructure with a capacity in the range of 20-30 MBit/sec, from first quarter 2001 the test network has increased the capacity to 155 MBit/sec, while in the future there may be a need to test new protocols at speeds in the order of 1 Gigabit/sec.

The test network is not a static structure, but will adapt to changing needs. At times it may consist of several unconnected physical netowrks, with varying numbers of institutions connected.

Pilot IPv6 Service

Uninett will offer an IPv6 Pilot Service for customer whishing to take part in IPv6 eksperiments where such services can be deployed.

The IPv6 network

Structure of the IPv6 Test Network, Part 1, IPv6

Status of the BGP peering can be seen on ASPath-tree.

This is a list of projects currently using the test network:

• IPv6 - «Network Services experiments» at UNINETT
• IPv6 - «Multimedia Communication Labratory» at the University of Oslo
• IPv6 - «Multimedia applications in Seamless Networks», Norwegian Computing Centre
• IPv6 - «PASTA project», Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø

The Diffserv network

There is also a diffserv network testbed on top of The TEst Network with the following projects :

• Differentiated IP at UNINETT
• MMCL at the University of Oslo

The Wireless Test networks

There are a 802.11 based test networks in

• Oslo - WEMAN
• Trondheim - Trondløst.
• Bergen - UiB - Trådløst Nettverk