CENGN’s Renowned SDN and NFV LEADERS Launch First Set of Commercialization Projects
Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) June 24, 2015 -- CENGN, Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, a leader in the rapid commercialization of NGN products, applications and services, today announced the launch of the first set of industry-led commercialization projects.
CENGN is a consortium of industry leaders dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of next generation communications solutions. CENGN’s internationally recognized testing centre employs interoperability between multiple software and hardware products, providing a unique environment to commercialize advanced products, applications and services. Founding members include: Alcatel-Lucent, Allstream, BTI Systems, Cisco, EWA Canada, EXFO, Invest Ottawa, JDSU, Juniper, Mistral Ventures, Rogers and TELUS.
“We fast track commercialization for small- and medium-size companies (SMEs),” says Ritch Dusome CENGN CEO. “Our approach is completely industry driven. We match our members, world leading communication companies, with the best Canadian SMEs, and utilize our technology expertise and lab environment to accelerate and validate new software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies, applications and services.”
The first set of projects will include: SDN Elephant Flow Congestion Mitigation with Automatic Bandwidth Provisioning with BTI Systems and Corsa Technology; SDN controlled Energy Management for Data Centres with Juniper and IG2; NFV Service Orchestration for assured Cloud connectivity with TELUS and CENX; OpenFlow switch – Smart steering for MPLS with TELUS and Noviflow; and vEPC Demonstration with CENGN and Expeto.
“There is clear demand for Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization equipment from organizations of all sizes around the globe,” said Walter Miron, Director of Technology Strategy at TELUS. “We are proud to support this initiative to help bolster homegrown innovation and build a strong Canadian SDN ecosystem at CENGN.”
“CENGN provides a catalyst for Canadian companies to accelerate collaboration in the emerging SDN and NFV marketplace, and an excellent platform to showcase innovation,” said Ed Ogonek, President and CEO of CENX. “By working closely with visionary carriers, such as TELUS, CENX is able to demonstrate the benefits our Cortx Service Orchestrator brings in assuring service quality in dynamic, multi-vendor, NFV networks.”
You can meet CENGN and see live demonstrations of our innovative projects at the SDN and Openflow World Congress 2015, in October 2015 in Germany.
About CENGN – Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation
Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN), is a consortium of industry, academic and research leaders dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of next generation communications solutions. CENGN’s internationally recognized testing centre employs interoperability between multiple software and hardware products. Our state of the art physical and virtual multi-vendor, test, certification and validation platform provides a unique environment to commercialize advanced products, applications and services. Founding members include: Alcatel-Lucent, Allstream, BTI Systems, Cisco, EWA Canada, EXFO, Invest Ottawa, JDSU, Juniper, Mistral Ventures, Rogers and TELUS. For more information visit http://www.cengn.ca
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Kelly Daize, CENGN - Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, http://www.cengn.ca, +1 613-878-3126, [email protected]
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