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Welcome to Liberouter

This is the development and community site of the "Programmable Hardware" activity, for historical reasons also known as "Liberouter". It is a part of research intent MSM6383917201 carried out by CESNET. The activity focuses on the development of hardware-accelerated network applications for high-speed networks. Our development efforts address specialized PCI cards with programmable chips (FPGA), their firmware, device drivers and other system software.

Our previous research prototypes have been a basis for several commercial products that are now offerred by our partner company INVEA-TECH.

For information about the individual applications see the Projects page or click the tabs on the left.

Recent news:

[31 Mar 2010] New COMBOI-10G4TXT interface card

Our hardware team activated the new COMBOI-10G4TXT interface card. It is equipped with VIRTEX 5 XC5VTX150T chip and four 10Gb SFP+ cages for multimode, monomode, CWDM or DWDM transceivers. The card will be used as a 4x10GbE hardware-accelerated interface card, and also for preliminary tests of 40Gb data transfers.

[15 Mar 2010] NetCOPE 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2

Release Candidate 2 of NetCOPE Platform 1.2.0 was released. This version brings several bugfixes and improvements:

  • Fixed speed switching at 10/100/1000M interfaces
  • Chip area significantly reduced in 10G2 version by using Virtex5 built-in CRC blocks.

[25 Feb 2010] NetCOPE 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1

Release Candidate 1 of NetCOPE Platform 1.2.0 was released. This version brings several important new features:

  • Supports Xilinx ISE 11.4
  • Fully 64-bit package for CentOS 5.4.
  • Support for precise timestamp generation in hardware, using COMBOL-GPS card.

[1 Feb 2010] NIFIC 3.2.0 released

The stable package of NIFIC for COMBO-LXT and COMBO-10G2 was released. See NIFIC project page for more details.

[4 Nov 2009] Flexible FlowMon 1.0.0 released

The very first package of Flexible FlowMon was released. See www.liberouter.org/fflowmon for more details.


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