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The Internet has become an essential communi-cation medium upon which billions of people rely every day. However, necessary evolution of the Internet has been severely limited by reliability constrains and social-economic factors. Experts fear that current growth rates will threaten the future of the Internet as a whole, despite the fact that new core technologies already exist.

Network virtualization presents a promising approach to overcome ossification and facilitate service deployment for a future Internet. Exploring this approach, we present a prototype implementation which realizes a subset of the 4WARD virtual network (VNet) architecture, allowing multiple VNets to coexist on top of a shared physical infrastructure. We discuss the functionality of our prototype and demonstrate experimental results to assess its performance.