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Remote network labs: an on-demand network cloud for configuration testing

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WREN '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Research on enterprise networking

Pages 93 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/1592681.1592696

Published: 21 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Network equipment is difficult to configure correctly. To minimize configuration errors, network administrators typically build a smaller scale test lab replicating the production network and test out their configuration changes before rolling out the changes to production. Unfortunately, building a test lab is expensive and the test equipment is rarely utilized. In this paper, we present Remote Network Labs, which is aimed at leveraging the expensive network equipment more efficiently and reducing the cost of building a test lab. Similar to a server cloud such as Amazon EC2, a user could request network equipment remotely and connect them through a GUI or web services interface. The network equipment is geographically distributed, allowing us to reuse test equipment anywhere. Beyond saving costs, Remote Network Labs brings about many additional benefits, including the ability to fully automate network configuration testing.

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Huang J(2014)AppACTSProceedings of the 2014 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering10.1109/MobileCloud.2014.13(85-90)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MobileCloud.2014.13
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https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6512429

Index Terms

Remote network labs: an on-demand network cloud for configuration testing
1. Networks
  1. Network services
    1. Network management

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WREN '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Research on enterprise networking

August 2009

124 pages

ISBN:9781605584430

DOI:10.1145/1592681

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HP Labs, Palo Alto

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Riungu-Kalliosaari LTaipale OSmolander KRichardson I(2018)Adoption and use of cloud-based testing in practiceSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-014-9256-024:2(337-364)Online publication date: 24-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11219-014-9256-0
Huang J(2014)AppACTSProceedings of the 2014 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering10.1109/MobileCloud.2014.13(85-90)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MobileCloud.2014.13
Huang JGong Y(2012)Remote mobile test system: a mobile phone cloud for application testing4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Proceedings10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6512429(1-4)Online publication date: Dec-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6512429

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