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Centre of Excellence in Next Generation NetworksTech Tuesdays Wesley Clover

September 1st 2015

Ritch Dusome ritch.dusome@cengn.ca

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: bhavani.krishnan@cengn.ca

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!

Going to SDN World Congress in Germany in October?

For more details: kelly.daize@cengn.ca

Get Involved! SME, MNE, Academia, Government

Ritch Dusome

President & CEO

ritch.dusome@cengn.ca

613-963-1200

www.cengn.ca

@CENGNCanada

555 Legget Drive

Tower A

Suite 600

THANK YOU