Centre of Excellence in Next Generation NetworksTech Tuesdays Wesley Clover
September 1st 2015
Ritch Dusome [email protected]
What is CENGN?
• Members in “co-opitition” represent over $11 Billion in R&D worldwide
• Dedicated to the acceleration of NGN products and services
Consortium of ICT Industry Leaders
• Independent interoperability testing centre
• Validation of SDN and NFV products and services
• Services (Commercialization Acceleration, Testing and Lab, Innovation for Hire, Technical Training)
Unique Open Multivendor Physical / Virtual DC & WAN
• NFP headquartered in (Kanata) Ottawa, Canada
• $15M from Canadian Federal Government and $45M from Industry
Funded
Vision ‘Tomorrow’s Communications- Today’
Create an internationally recognized Centre of
Excellence in the commercialization of Next
Generation Networks
‘Help put Canada back on the Leader Board’
SDN, NFV, IoT – 3 MegaTrends
SDN NFV IoT
Canada has been falling behind in ICT (OVUM report)
~2% Canada vs 6% World Growth
32,000 ICT companies but only 22 with >500 employees
Software Defined Networks - SDN
$75B+ by 2020 (SDxCentral)
Driven by Application Policy
Network Function Virtualization -NFV
$25B+ by 2020 (SDxCentral)
Hardware Based:
Router
Switch
FW
Software Based:
(Applications running in
a Virtual Machine)
Router
Switch
FW
Internet of Things - IoT
$19T TAM by 2020
(Cisco)
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CENGN Members
Tier 1
Tier 2
CENGN Partners
Government & Academic Partners
Research Network Partners
Universities and Colleges
Government Organizations
CENGN Affiliations
People, Process & Platform
Agile Methodology
-Daily scrums
-Bi-weekly Sprints
CENGN Staff, Members, Partners
-Full Time ENG, Marketing, Project
-Student Co-op, Interns
Vendor Neutral OpenStack
-OpenDaylight
-OpenContrail
-Test Equipment
-Servers, Routers, Switches
CENGN Platform
DCI
Internet
What does CENGN offer?
Commercialization Acceleration
Testing Services
Technical Training
Innovation for Hire
Commercialization Acceleration
Testing Services
OpenStack SDN/NFV
Servers
Routers
Switches
Optical
Appliance
Test Equipment
High Speed Internet
High Speed WAN
Technical Training
• CENGN Learning offerings for Next Generation Networking Technologies:
– SDN Fundamentals: 1-day Instructor-led Introductory training
– SDN Boot-camp: 2-days Instructor-led Hands-on Training:
• Covers the critical skills needed to deploy an SDN-based solution, students will be provided with a secure
demo/test SDN environment for intense, hands-on access. This course covers a variety of SDN controllers:
from architecture and component interaction, through configuration, deployment, tuning, common applications
and SDN troubleshooting. Will prepare the students for the real-world challenges faced in SDN deployments.
– Openstack: – 4 days Instructor-led hands-on Training:
• This training will provide students with a deep understanding of how to manually install, configure and monitor
the OpenStack environment. Students will walk away from the training with the understanding of the inner
workings of individual OpenStack components, how to customize them to their environment and how to
effectively monitor and trouble-shoot a running OpenStack deployment.
SDN Fundamentals
TRAINING OVERVIEW
• 1-day Instructor-led ‘Fundamentals of
Software Defined Networking’ that provides
an introduction to the basics of SDN
technology, deployment considerations,
Industry trends and Case Studies
• Target Audience: Decision Makers,
Executive managers and Networking
professionals
• Course Material: Presentation slides and
Student Manual
TRAINING SYLLABUS
• Module1: Networking and Data Centre Primer
• Module 2: Cloud Computing and Network
Virtualization
• Module 3: Networking trends driving change, SDN
basics, SDN architecture and SDN deployment
considerations
• Module 4: SDN standard and open forums, SDN
open products and vendor solutions
• Module 5: SDN demo
• Module 6: Case Studies based on CENGN SDN
Projects
November
2015
For more details: [email protected]
Innovation for Hire
• Project Management and Product Management
• Engineering
• Business Development & Marketing
Working with 3 SME’s, 1 Government group
CENGN Projects - 2015
350• Number of SMEs engaged through Cross-Canada Roadshow
100• Number of SMEs with Project Entries
50• Number of SMEs who submitted their proposals
12• Number of SMEs who were shortlisted for Dragon’s Den day
4• Number of Projects selected & executing
All are in the area of SDN/NFV
Projects started
SME Sponsor Project Overview
SDN Elephant Flow Congestion Mitigation
vEPC demo at the Layer 123 SDN World Congress 2015
OpenFlow Switch – Hybrid MPLS L2VPN
Multi-Layer SDWAN orchestration
Commercialization Project submissions – November 30th
Evaluations start in
November 30,
2015
1. SDN/NfV/SD-WAN
2. IoT
3. Data Centre/Cloud
4. Network Transport
5. Security6. Network Applications
7. Mobile Network
Areas of Interest
CENGN is Hiring!
Get Involved! SME, MNE, Academia, Government
Ritch Dusome
President & CEO
613-963-1200
www.cengn.ca
@CENGNCanada
555 Legget Drive
Tower A
Suite 600
THANK YOU