1 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 Cisco Academic Research Programs JJ Jamison NLR Project - ARTI Team

222 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

333 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

444 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

555 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 ARTI Team Members Amy Blanchard Chris Buja Ole Jacobsen JJ Jamison Kevin McGrattan Robin Penn Matt Schmitz Chas Smith Carol Stillman Michael Turzanski Doug Walsten Steve Wolff

666 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

777 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 Development Producti on Deploym ent Cisco Academic R&D Research Early Deployment NRP (NRN RP) CARD CIAG Business Unit R&D Tech Center Applied Research URP ARTI BU R&E Networks

888 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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!”

999 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 Timelines and engagement models 0-12 month payoffExclusive province of Business Units monthsCisco Applied Research and Development (CARD) 3-5 yearsUniversity Research Program (URP) Tuned to timeline of associated NRN NRN Research Program (NRP)

10 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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.

11 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

12 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

13 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

14 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

15 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

16 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

17 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

18 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

19 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

20 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 ALB BAT RAL JAC TUL PIT HOU NLR Layer 3 Network (Initial Configuration) LAX WDC ATL CHI NYC DEN SEA CLE Cisco CRS-1 8/S router 10GE wave 10GE managed wave

21 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

22 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

23 © 2001, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. JJ Joint Techs S05 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

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