Transcript Cisco University Research Programs

Cisco Academic Research
Programs
JJ Jamison
NLR Project - ARTI Team
[email protected]
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Agenda
• ARTI Team - Academic Research and
Technology Initiatives Team
• URP – University Research Program
• CARD – Cisco Applied Research and
Development program
• NRNs - National Research Networks
• NRP - NRN Research Program
• NLR – National Lambda Rail
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ARTI Team
• ARTI focuses primarily on two areas:
– research programs: URP, CARD, NRP
– advanced research and education network activities:
National Research Networks (NRN), Regional
Networks, Government Research Networks,
Supercomputer Centers, and Research/Higher
Education Institutions world wide
• ARTI is not part of Cisco’s Sales organization
– ARTI is part of Cisco’s Engineering Organization
– Bob Aiken reports to Charlie Giancarlo Cisco’s
CTO/CDO
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ARTI Leadership
• Bob Aiken
– Director of ARTI
– Formally at Argonne National Lab, DoE
Headquarters & NSF
• Javad Boroumand
– Senior Manager, NRNs & NRP
– Formally at NASA, USC-ISI, & NSF
• Graham Holmes
– Senior Manager, URP & CARD
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ARTI Team Members
• Amy Blanchard
• Matt Schmitz
• Chris Buja
• Chas Smith
• Ole Jacobsen
• Carol Stillman
• JJ Jamison
• Michael Turzanski
• Kevin McGrattan
• Doug Walsten
• Robin Penn
• Steve Wolff
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Academic Research at Cisco
• There is no “Cisco Research” organization or “Cisco
Labs”
• ARTI houses the only Cisco corporate-wide academic
research programs (URP, CARD, and NRP)
• There are other organizations within Cisco that fund
academic research
– CIAG - Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group
– Business Units (BUs) and other groups can and do
fund academic research on their own
– Tech Center – pre-BU product development
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Cisco Academic R&D
Producti
on
Research
Applied
Research
Early
Development
Deployment
Deploym
ent
ARTI
URP
CARD
NRP (NRN RP)
R&E Networks
CIAG
BU
Business Unit R&D
Tech Center
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URP, CARD, and NRP
Why is Cisco funding external academic research
instead creating a “Cisco Labs”?
Why not use the same strategy as Howard Hughes?
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator:
“Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA I'm doubling it, all
right? You work for me now. Find some clouds. Find some
clouds! Find me some clouds!”
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Timelines and engagement models
0-12 month payoff
Exclusive province of
Business Units
18-36 months
Cisco Applied Research
and Development
(CARD)
University Research
Program (URP)
3-5 years
Tuned to timeline of
associated NRN
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NRN Research Program
(NRP)
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URP Description
• URP funds specific research projects of interest
to Cisco
– at universities and other not-for-profit
institutions worldwide
– via unrestricted cash and equipment gifts
– to faculty and research scientists
• URP has no funds for center membership,
consortia joining, conference support, teaching
labs, endowed chairs, non-research fellowships,
etc.
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University Research Board
• Board of Cisco experts, advisory to the URP
• URB tasks:
– Set strategic direction for URP
– Identify, solicit, and evaluate quality research
proposals
– Maintain appropriate programmatic balance
and relevance
– Represent their Cisco organization interests
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Cisco Champions
• Cisco Champions are Cisco developers who act
as technical liaisons with funded researchers
• A key part of URP to realize mutual value and
benefits of funded research
• We will NOT accept and evaluate a proposal
without a Champion. We do provide opportunity
for Champion identification prior to submission
deadlines
• We will not fund a proposal without a Champion
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Criteria for evaluating proposals
• Intellectual merits of proposed research
• Qualification and track record of Principal
Investigator(s)
• Relevance/importance to Cisco and/or industry
• Support of a Cisco Champion for the project
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Grant Type
• “Unrestricted Gift” – i.e., a grant, not a contract
• No formal deliverables
• Open publishable results
• Intellectual Property Rights remain with PI(s) and
institution
• Zero or very small overhead taken by institution
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Proposal and grant information
• Accept unsolicited proposals in networking
technology from Principal Investigators
• 2 page proposals – could be more
• Deadlines twice per year
• 1 year awards - renewals compete with new
proposals
• Awards range up to $100K/year/project – average
is $70K; one PI may have multiple projects
• Awards are in cash and equipment
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URP program examples
• Analysis and Visualization of IP Connectivity
– CAIDA/SDSC
• All Optical Header Recognition
– University of Maryland
• Improving the Robustness of Multicast in the Internet
– UT Dallas/UCSB
• ISP Negotiation for Coordinated Traffic Engineering
– University of Washington
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CARD program description
• Applied research program designed to shorten
development cycle or add value to product R&D
efforts
• Close collaboration between researcher and Cisco
developer
• Usually initiated by a BU
• Agreement/contract may be multi-year
• Initial funding by ARTI, 2nd & subsequent years (if
any) require BU buy-in
• Intellectual Property Rights contractually settled
before work begins
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CARD program examples
• Network Infrastructures Support in P2P and Overlay
Networks - Stanford University
Study Objective: first-step in looking at how routing
infrastructures can support new applications such as P2P
and overlay networks
• Meta-CLI Technology - University of Quebec Montreal
Study Objective: Develop meta-language for analyzing
complex CLI scripts
• IPv6 Renumbering Study – University of
Southampton & University of Meunster
Study Objective: Gain practical experience in IPv6
renumbering implementations
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NRP description
• Promote system-level research to complement
technology focused research under URP and
CARD
• Drawing from specific technologies plus
research in management, economics and
policy; evolving the architecture a key driver
• Collaboration between networking researchers,
distributed systems researchers and NRN
operators
• Experimenting in real live network
environments with real user traffic and
applications
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NLR Layer 3 Network (Initial Configuration)
SEA
CHI
NYC
DEN
CLE PIT
WDC
LAX
ALB
RAL
TUL
ATL
BAT
JAC
HOU
Cisco CRS-1 8/S router
10GE wave
10GE managed wave
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Research in NLR
• NLR is about both providing infrastructure and
support for:
– Experimental networking research
– Production high-performance networking for science (and
other) applications
• NLR is not just a single network but an evolving
infrastructure to enable researchers to build multiple
networks (production and experimental)
• Critical for NLR and regional/campus network
operators work together to extend NLR capabilities
and services to the interested researchers
– Network operators as partners in experimental networking
not just facility providers
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Cisco in NLR
• Why is Cisco involved in NLR?
– MORPHnet: Jan 97 paper by Aiken, Carlson, Foster,
Kuhfuss, Stevens, and Winkler
– the R&E community needs a flexible research network that
is both production and experimental
• NLR and Cisco have a strategic relationship
focused on joint research interest and not a
vendor-customer relationship
• This relationship is managed by Cisco’s ARTI
group and not out of the sales organization
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Cisco in NLR
• Cisco was an early founder of NLR and is its
largest contributor
• Our major goal is to drive network technologies
development, tech transfer and
commercialization through experimental
networking research in NLR
• Using NRP funds Cisco and NLR will soon
announce the NLR Research Program
– for more info contact [email protected]
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For more information see:
www.cisco.com/go/research
& www.cisco.com/go/arti
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