I am about to spend the last part of my summer writing about my experience with the GENI portal and explaining how to get started with this large federation of networking testbeds. This blog is meant to be highly technical and is being written with the hope that systems researchers working in  the networking area at CUNY will benefit from the information.

First, an overview of GENI. The best way to fond out what GENI is all about is to go on its website. http://www.geni.net/ and read the “ABOUT GENI” page. In short, GENI is a platform that connects various networking testbeds around the globe so that researchers can perform at-scale experiments to test their bright, futuristic networking ideas. GENI is a work in progress and is being managed by BBN. BBN is refered to as the “Geni-GPO” throughout the GENI literature.

Now that we know what is GENI, lets start working……