What Planet-Lab is about
Create the open infrastructure for invention of the next generation of wide-area (“planetary scale”) services
- post-cluster, post-yahoo, post-CDN, post-P2P, ...
Potentially, the foundation on which the next Internet can emerge
- think beyond TCP/UDP/IP + DNS + BGP + OSPF... as to what the net provides
- building-blocks upon which services and applications will be based
- “the next internet will be created as an overlay in the current one” (NRC)
A different kind of network testbed
- not a collection of pipes and giga-pops
- not a distributed supercomputer
- geographically distributed network services
- alternative network architectures and protocols
Focus and Mobilize the Network / Systems Research Community to define the emerging internet