Indian Institute of Science inaugurates a new state-of-the-art networking lab

IISc's Department of Electrical Communication Engineering in collaboration with Cisco has developed the lab.

Press Trust of India | January 19, 2021 | 05:49 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Centre for Networked Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Science has got a new state-of-the-art networking lab recently.

The lab, housed in IISc's Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, was inaugurated by Krishna Sundaresan, vice president, Engineering, Cisco India and SAARC, the IISc said in a statement. The lab, developed in collaboration with Cisco, has a network test-bed which will enable researchers and students to develop applications, algorithms, and experiments in emerging areas in communication and computer networking such as software-defined networking, network function virtualisation, and network slicing, the IISc said.

According to the institute, the test-bed is equipped with network control, management, and analytics platforms (Cisco DNAC centre), wireless controller, enterprise switches and routers, WiFi-6 access points, and an identity management suite.

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