FABRIC Testbed Now Open for Experimentation

[Komal Thareja]

Dear Users,

We are excited to announce that the FABRIC Testbed is now open for experimentation. The latest v1.9 release introduces key enhancements that improve performance guarantees, resource access, and overall usability across the platform.

What’s New in FABRIC v1.9:

• Guaranteed QoS for Layer 2 PTP links – Enables bandwidth-capped connections for consistent and predictable performance. Try it out with the QoS-enabled network artifact.
• Simplified FPGA workflow – Introducing an FPGA initialization workflow to ensure your FPGA is ready for experimentation without any stale configuration or leftover data. Explore it through the FPGA initialization artifact.
• Portal enhancements – Users can now add P4 switches to slices at supported sites (available to projects with the Switch.P4 tag), and view switch availability on both the Resources and Site Details pages.
  Additional updates include:
  • Direct access to public and project artifacts from the Experiment page and Artifact Manager
  • Project-wide slice visibility to improve collaboration within project teams
• Improved usability – Includes persistent user storage tied to FABRIC IDs, automated expiration notifications, and streamlined project and certificate management.

These updates further enable scalable, repeatable, and programmable experimentation in advanced networking, edge computing, and distributed systems research.

Read the full release notes:
FABRIC v1.9 Release Notes

We invite the research community to explore the testbed and share feedback as FABRIC continues to evolve.

Best regards,
The FABRIC Team

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