Re: [OT]call for backers: open source hardware for networking innovation (ONetSwitch)

["huc@ieee" <huc () ieee org>]

The kickstarter project is going to be expired in about 2 days. The price will go up a bit after the kickstarter 
promotion. One board now is $699 (which will go up to over $1000), and we also have sets of 1299 for two boards, 2599 
for four boards, and 3899 for 6 boards.

We still has gap to make the kickstarter project success, so if you'd like to buy some boards, we appreciate you to 
back now at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetswitch/onetswitch-open-source-hardware-for-networking

Thanks and regards,

Chengchen 


On 2015-3-3, at 下午9:47, huc@ieee <huc () ieee org> wrote:

> Sorry for a little bit off topic.
>
> This email is to inform you a new open source hardware for networking innovation called ONetSwitch. It is an 
> all-programmable networking platform combining ARM and FPGA in a 17cm*13cm area (notebook size) for testing and 
> verifying research idea related to networking. Different from previous FPGA develop board like NetFPGA/Xilinx PCIe 
> board, host PC is not required any more for ONetSwitch, and it is smaller, cheaper, and more power efficient. and 
> more flexible.
>
> We have launched the ONetSwitch project on Kickstarter.com weeks ago. You can get an abstract from the short video, 
> which will not take you long to get our idea :-) 
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetswitch/onetswitch-open-source-hardware-for-networking
>
> We had a paper at ONS 2014 presenting the preliminary design of ONetSwitch 
> (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/ons2014/ons2014-paper-hu_chengchen.pdf) and a demo at SIGCOMM'14 
> setting a data center testbed on only desktop using ONetSwitch 
> (http://nskeylab.xjtu.edu.cn/people/huc/Pub/DesktopDC_2014.pdf). In the new version now at kickstarter, we add 
> further physical support on 802.11 AC, mSATA, which suits for more scenarios. Also, we have open source ref. design 
> and supporting wiki available at github (https://github.com/MeshSr/wiki/wiki/REF-OpenFlowSwitch-HWFT). The processing 
> logic can be modified in both software (ARM) and hardware (FPGA) to fit your own needs. Although it is currently 
> highlighted mainly on SDN and DCN, we aim to provide the research community a way to set their testbeds for any 
> networking innovations easily. 
>
> I send the info. about ONetSwitch to this mail list since I think it may be useful to guys in this community. Please 
> do us a favor and back us to get your own programmable testbed. We believe ONetSwitch would give much help to your 
> research and development work. Also, can you help distribute it to friends and colleagues who will be interested with 
> this? Even for the guys, who do not need ONetSwitch but think it is good, we greatly appreciate you to back us with 
> $1 for encouraging.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chengchen
>
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> Dr. Chengchen Hu, 
>
> ERCIM Fellow
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
>
> Associate Professor (Sabbatical leave till Oct., 2015)
> Xi'an Jiaotong University
>
> http://nskeylab.xjtu.edu.cn/people/cchu
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