GENI – Global Environment for Network Innovations

November 30, 2007
Chip Elliot | BBN Technologies

This talk introduces GENI, the National Science Foundation’s ambitious plan to build a national facility to enable research into “clean slate” architectures for future global communications networks.

GENI has just entered a new stage in its development. Early prototyping is now beginning, which will often illumination into its construction plans and research potential. The first round of software, hardware, and trial facilities are now being proposed by academic and industrial research teams.

This talk presents current plans for GENI, but leaves plenty of time for discussion and brain-storming, both for the eventual facility itself and for prototypes that will be built in the coming year.

Speaker Details

Chip Elliott is Chief Engineer at BBN Technologies and Project Director for GENI, a national-scale experimental facility being created by the National Science Foundation for “clean slate” network research. He is an IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and pending. Mr. Elliott led DARPA’s design and build-out of the world’s first quantum cryptography network – 10 optical nodes across metro Boston providing highly secure key distribution non-stop through both telecom fibers and the atmosphere – as well as the design and implementation of large-scale, mission-critical “ad hoc” radio networks now used in nearly a dozen nations including the United States, UK, and Canada. For his leadership in quantum cryptography he was given Frost & Sullivan’s Award for Excellence in Technology (2005) and named a World Technology Award Finalist (2004) and Fellow.