If you followed a link to orbit-lab.org, one of its project subdomains, or the old COSMOS Trac wiki, you landed here because that site was retired on 1 August 2026.
ORBIT itself did not go away. The ORBIT testbed became part of COSMOS: its grid and sandboxes are COSMOS domains today, reachable through the same consoles and the same tooling as the rest of the testbed, and the hosts still carry their *.orbit-lab.org names. What was retired were the separate websites — a scattering of per-project pages and wikis that had accumulated over the years. Their documentation now lives here, in one place.
| If you are looking for | Go to |
|---|---|
| How to get an account and run your first experiment | Getting started |
| Step-by-step experiment guides | Tutorials |
| Nodes, radios, SDRs, antennas — including the ORBIT grid and sandboxes | Hardware |
| Images, toolchains, frameworks | Software |
| Measurement data and traces | Datasets |
| Where to keep experiment data | Storage |
| Workshops and the summer programme | Workshops · Summer |
The ORBIT testbed is now the New Jersey part of COSMOS, and its grid and sandboxes are documented under Hardware. These were its project websites:
| Retired address | What it was |
|---|---|
www.orbit-lab.org, orbit-lab.org |
The main ORBIT site and its Trac wiki |
wiki.orbit-lab.org |
The ORBIT wiki |
omf.orbit-lab.org |
OMF — the experiment control framework |
oml-doc.orbit-lab.org |
OML — the measurement library documentation |
packages.orbit-lab.org, apt.orbit-lab.org |
The ORBIT Debian package repositories |
crkit.orbit-lab.org |
CRKit, the cognitive-radio kit |
wimax.orbit-lab.org |
The WiMAX testbed deployment |
mobilityfirst.orbit-lab.org |
The MobilityFirst future-Internet architecture project |
geni.orbit-lab.org, geniwireless.orbit-lab.org |
GENI and GENI-Wireless federation |
lte.orbit-lab.org |
The LTE deployment |
wiser.orbit-lab.org |
WISER |
| Retired address | What it was |
|---|---|
wiki.cosmos-lab.org |
The original COSMOS Trac wiki — superseded by this wiki |
wiki.indigo.cosmos-lab.org |
The INDIGO project's Trac wiki |
wiki.rrail.cosmos-lab.org |
The RRAIL project's Trac wiki |
sii.cosmos-lab.org |
SII |
The INDIGO project site itself is still live at indigo.cosmos-lab.org — only its Trac wiki was retired.
Experiment control. Experiments are no longer driven by OEDL scripts against the OMF experiment controller. Orchestration is now Ansible-native — see Tutorials. The omf command itself still exists on every console for imaging, power and node status.
Package repositories. packages.orbit-lab.org and apt.orbit-lab.org have been replaced by apt.cosmos-lab.org, which is reachable from inside the testbed.
Sandboxes. If you used a specific ORBIT sandbox or the grid, it is still there. Reservations and console access work the same way for every COSMOS domain — see Getting started.
If you need material from one of the retired pages — an old project page, a figure from a paper, a configuration you remember — contact testbed support. Please include the original URL if you still have it; that makes it much quicker to track down.
Citations and DOIs pointing at retired orbit-lab.org URLs will continue to resolve to this page rather than breaking.
Sites retired 1 August 2026. Page last verified 1 August 2026.