SBIR Phase I: Stateless - Taking from the Lab to a Production Environment

SBIR 第一阶段：无状态 - 从实验室到生产环境

• 批准号: 1722230
• 负责人: Murad Kablan
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Stateless, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1722230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Stateless; Taking; Lab

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to bring agility to the network infrastructure in data center networks. While modern data centers leverage server virtualization to quickly and easily deploy applications, and storage systems that abstract away the hard drives and enable applications to access any data from any server at any time, the network infrastructure that protects and makes the network more efficient is still largely hardware appliances. With cloud traffic expected to quadruple over the next several years (according to Cisco), a rapid growth in the number of devices (with the Internet of Things emerging), and an ever increasing complexity and scale of security threats, this project will provide data center operators with the agility to quickly and easily deploy infrastructure to keep up with these trends and threats. In doing so, society will experience more reliable networked applications with reduced data breaches.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will provide technical validation for a new approach to network function virtualization, invented at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in which network functions are disaggregated into separate processing and state storage components. Experiments in the lab have shown seamless scalability, disruptionless failure management, and processing rates in line with other software solutions. The goal of this project is to run in a production environment (a data center with real traffic) to fully quantify the throughput, latency, scalability, resilience, and cost effectiveness when faced with production conditions.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为数据中心网络的网络基础设施带来灵活性。虽然现代数据中心利用服务器虚拟化来快速、轻松地部署应用程序，并利用存储系统抽象出硬盘驱动器，使应用程序能够随时访问来自任何服务器的任何数据，但保护和提高网络效率的网络基础设施在很大程度上仍然是硬件设备。随着云流量预计将在未来几年内翻两番（根据思科），设备数量的快速增长（随着物联网的出现），以及安全威胁的复杂性和规模的不断增加，该项目将为数据中心运营商提供敏捷性，以快速轻松地部署基础设施，以跟上这些趋势和威胁。这样，社会将体验到更可靠的网络应用程序，减少数据泄露。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将为网络功能虚拟化的新方法提供技术验证，该方法由科罗拉多大学博尔德分校发明，其中网络功能被分解为单独的处理和状态存储组件。实验室中的实验已经显示了无缝的可伸缩性、无中断的故障管理和与其他软件解决方案一致的处理速率。该项目的目标是在生产环境（具有真实流量的数据中心）中运行，以便在面对生产条件时完全量化吞吐量、延迟、可伸缩性、弹性和成本效益。