A paper about the NaaS box was accepted to the USENIX Annual Technical Conference and was presented in Denver Colorado on 23rd June 2016.
On 10th December the NaaS partners and industrial advisors met to discuss the progress of the project so far and to plan the project's development over the coming years. Here is the original agenda.
A paper describing early stages of the NaaS idea was accepted at the CoNEXT conference and was presented in Sydney, Australia in early December. The paper describes the benefits to a data centre from deploying a middlebox that can perform in-network processing on Hadoop and Solr.
Middleboxes for Application-Specific Traffic Aggregation (Paper PDF) (Slides PDF), Luo Mai, Lukas Rupprecht, Abdul Alim, Paolo Costa, Matteo Migliavacca, Peter Pietzuch and Alexander L. Wolf, 10th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2014