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| | 1 | = Strategies and Approaches for Federating with GENI = |
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| | 3 | GENI provides a variety of methods by which external resources, systems and testbeds can federate with GENI. By 'federate', we mean to be able to share resources, services or information with GENI in a mutually trusted manner. |
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| | 5 | There are typically three broad categories of federation with GENI: |
| | 6 | * '''Identity Federation''': Sharing identity information between GENI and another system |
| | 7 | * '''Control Plane Federation''': Allowing GENI users access to your services, or your users access to GENI services |
| | 8 | * '''Data Plane Federation''': Allowing Layer 2 network connection between resources allocated on GENI and resources allocated on your testbed. |
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| | 10 | This page describes different approaches supported in GENI for these different kinds of federation. The following figure summarizes these different kinds of federation and key approaches: |
