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SFINGI (Software router to Improve Next-Generation Internet) is an Italian research project (PRIN) funded by MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca).

 

Next generation Internet will be based on network resource virtualization, needed to guarantee flexibility, scalability, reconfigurability, programmability and resource sharing to enable energy consumption savings. The research proposal SFINGI is characterized by a strong experimental flavor; its main focus is on the study of virtualization and energy saving techniques in software routers (SR), routers exploiting a Personal Computer (PC) architecture and an open source software/hardware environment. SFINGI aims at defining the ability of software routers in dealing, in a virtualized environment, with complex applications requiring a high degree of resource sharing, scalability, reliability and reduced energy consumption, in other words SFINGI focus on network virtualization support in SRs. The SFINGI consortium includes six research groups in well known Italian Universities: Politecnico di Torino, Università di Bologna, Università di Modena-Reggio Emilia, Università di Napoli, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Università di Trento.