OTTAWA – The newly launched Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) is taking its show on the road in an effort to build Canada’s leadership in Next Generation Networks.
Starting in Edmonton Tuesday, CENGN kicks off a five-city Canadian roadshow with stops planned in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa to find and support small to medium enterprises (SME) working on Next Generation Networks. These technologies include software defined networks and network functions virtualization that address the growing demand for exploding Internet content on multiple platforms, and also underpin cloud-based applications and the Internet of Things (IoT), connecting and revolutionizing the way people interact with each other as well as their machines in a myriad of fields including healthcare, financial services, energy, transportation, manufacturing, security and environmental protection.
The format of each CENGN city stop starts with an overview of the project selection process followed by a panel session with CENGN member companies to discuss their technology areas of interest. There will also be plenty of networking time for SME companies and researchers to present their technologies. CENGN’s team is also visiting colleges and universities in each roadshow city to drum up interest in assisting CENGN projects and/or joining the Ottawa testing and validation lab.
CENGN is an industry-led consortium of corporate, academic and research members including Alcatel-Lucent, Allstream, BTI Systems, Cisco, EWA Canada, EXFO, Invest Ottawa, JDSU, Juniper Networks, Mistral Ventures, Rogers and Telus. Together, CENGN’s heavy-hitters are responsible for 90% of Canada’s annual telecom R&D spend.
