What is PlanetLab and its role?
The PlanetLab Consortium (PLC) is a founding member of M-Lab. It provides M-Lab’s software environment, manages day-to-day operations and acts as a point of contact. The PlanetLab Consortium is a collection of academic, industrial and government institutions cooperating to support and enhance the existing PlanetLab overlay network. This overlay network is a platform of servers for network research that is separate and distinct from M-Lab. It supports a broader array of experiments, but for various reasons it is not particularly well-suited for the types of measurement tools deployed on M-Lab. At the same time, PLC provides a distributed software architecture as well as an operations and management framework that is highly relevant for M-Lab. M-Lab benefits greatly from PLC’s existing expertise in this regard. Learn more about PlanetLab here.
