The Launch of the Trusted IOT Alliance Testnet

All Credits to Zaki Manian | Original Post - https://goo.gl/MPCCWm

One of the biggest challenges as an entrepreneur and a system designer in the blockchain domain is getting access to realistic test environments for software.

Real industrial, financial and logistics networks are not the flat open spaces of the public internet. Production networks are frequently heavily segmented spaces that employ middleboxes for access control, isolation and security. Peer to Peer architectures have never been extensively deployed in these environments.

There are many reasons to expect challenges when deploying blockchain systems in these settings.

Middleboxes denying non-standard peer to peer protocols.
Peers unable to reach each other because of network segmentation.
Broadcasted transactions failing reach each other.
Latency and segmentation at consensus layer.
Blockchain developers frequently find it difficult to develop systems that accurately model realistic network architecture. The target markets for many blockchain projects look nothing like the networks that small companies or simple cloud deployments operate.

The Trusted IoT has constructed a global testnet with our members to permit testing of protocols, applications and devices in a realistic segmented networks.

The Trusted IoT Alliance Testnet is a global private IP network with endpoints managed by members where any protocol can run and be connected to both the Internet and the private network.

How Do I join the Testnet?
The Trusted IoT Alliance testnet is open to all members of Alliance and thanks to a generous $100,000 dollar award from Cisco at no additional cost.

Members are setting up nodes all over the world and any endpoint with access to an internet can connect into our overlay.

Members can request access credentials from the Trusted IoT Alliance on our Slack or TestNet github. Credentials to network either manifest as physical devices like in the case of Node 1 below or VPN credentials.

Join the Alliance : http://members.trusted-iot.org/

What experiments are planned for the testnet?
We are planning a number of interesting experiments on the network.

Running public blockchain networks where protocol traffic traverses between the private and public network
Measuring latency and throughput from permissioned blockchain protocols are
Running devices and smart contacted connected applications that reach the blockchain via the overlay network.