BBN takes charge of massive network research project

NSF awards funds to BBN for Geni project office

The National Science Foundation recently chose BBN Technologies to work with the research community to design GENI, a network research platform designed to go beyond what the Internet can offer.

GENI stands for Global Environment for Network Innovations, and according to the NSF “will be a shared, global facility designed to catalyze research on network architectures, services and applications.”

BBN, which has been awarded $2.5 million per year from the NSF for up to four years, has a long history in Internet-oriented breakthroughs, including its work on Internet predecessor the ARPANet and its work with Stanford and University College in London on the first Internet routers.

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The National Science Foundation recently chose BBN Technologies to work with the research community to design GENI, a network research platform designed to go beyond what the Internet can offer.

GENI stands for Global Environment for Network Innovations, and according to the NSF “will be a shared, global facility designed to catalyze research on network architectures, services and applications.”

BBN, which has been awarded $2.5 million per year from the NSF for up to four years, has a long history in Internet-oriented breakthroughs, including its work on Internet predecessor the ARPANet and its work with Stanford and University College in London on the first Internet routers.

"GENI will give scientists a clean slate on which to imagine a completely new Internet that will likely be materially different from that of today,” said principal investigator and project director Chip Elliott of BBN, in a statement. “We want to ensure that this next stage of transformation will be guided by the best possible network science, design, experimentation and engineering."

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