EARLnet is an experimental Autonomous System (AS), which will serve also as a test-bed to develop and evaluate novel reactive network management solutions. EARLnet offers the unique opportunity to observe the utility and scalibility of the developed traffic engineering and management techniques in a realisitic Internet scenario. At the same time EARLnet provides a controlled experimental environment, allowing us to exactly control and monitor to degree of exposure to real word traffic to properly evaluate EARL's Software Definded Monitoring (SDM) architecture.
The Autonomous System
EARLnet is a 100% research network, there are no end-users served through EARLnet. This allows us to know of and control every single traffic flow originating from EARLnet. If you are peering with EARLnet, expect very fine-granular and carefully crafted traffic flows to orginiate from EARLnet.
Network Status
We currently are in the process of setting up EARLnet. We will update this page accordingly.