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Overview

With the advent of service sensitive applications (such as remote- controlled experiments, time constrained massive data transfers, video-conferencing, etc.), it has become apparent that there is a need to augment the services present in today's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) infrastructure. The On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System (OSCARS) project prototypes one such new service: dynamically provisioned, guaranteed bandwidth secure circuits both within ESnet, and between ESnet and other network domains.

OSCARS is funded out of the DOE Office of Science. The official project page has links to the original proposal, a project summary, and presentations on OSCARS. Based on the original proposal, functional and design specifications were written to formalize the plans for the implementation. The original implementation was based on the Internet2 BRUW project. Since then, the two projects have merged and share a common code base. The Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network Software Suite DCNSS wiki contains additional documentation and downloads sites for the OSCARS software.

A GridNets 2006 paper goes into the details of OSCARS as of August 2006.

Four of the links at the left of this page point to  major collections of of information:
The two links under User Manual describe how to use OSCARS two interfaces. The DCN/Installation manual link points to a pdf document describing how to install OSCARS on a host that is running the Dragon software. The Installation link points to a html manual on how to install and configure just the OSCARS IDC code.