Okinawa Open Laboratory

Japan and CanadaConsortiums Models that Work

Apr. 25, 2016Takashi Torii and Ritch Dusome

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Problem Statement

Building a consortium of often competing, industry, government, academic and research leaders can be difficult. While all members may agree that they are dedicated to building a great open source community, their competing interests, motivations and business models, can create a barrier to bringing people together for a common cause.

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What is different?

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Research Institute

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Research Institute

Open Source

Community

Open

Consortium

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Target of each models

Open Source Community

Upstream First

Create eco system

Care the developer

Open Consortium

R&D for business

Economic growth

Educate people

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Simple and Straight

Forward

Complex and Each

Players thinks

Different Goals

Consortium model is difficult to organize!

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Introduction of CENGN

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Japan and Canada: Consortiums Models that workRitch Dusome April 2016

What is CENGN?

• Partner with Universities & Colleges (Student Interns)

• Drive Innovation to Commercialization (Small Medium Enterprise)

Consortium of ICT Industry Leaders

• Independent interoperability Testing Centre; Testing Services (SDN, NFV, IoT)

• Services (Commercialization Acceleration, Testing and Lab, Innovation for Hire, Technical Training)

Unique Open Source Multivendor Physical and Virtual DC & WAN

• Data Centre, WAN, Staff (DevOps, Project, Marketing)

• Funded by Canadian Federal Government and Industry

Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

People, Process & Platform

Agile, Kanban Methodology

-Daily scrums

-Bi-weekly Sprints

CENGN Staff, Members, Partners

-Full Time ENG, Marketing, Project

-Student Co-op, Interns

Vendor Neutral OpenStack

-Canonical JOID & Landscape

-OpenDaylight

-OpenContrail

-Test Equipment IXIA

-Servers, Routers, Switches

CENGN Members

Partners

SMEs

CENX: 12.5M Series D on

August 11, 2015

Corsa: 16.5M Series B on

March 20, 2015)

Noviflow: 9M Venture on

September 9, 2015

Government & Academic Partners

Research Network Partners

Universities and Colleges

Government Organizations

CENGN Affiliations

CENGN Services

What does CENGN offer?

Proof of Concept (Validation and Hosting)

Testing Services (independent vendor certification,

interoperability)

ONF Training & Certification

• SDN Introduction

• ODL Introduction

• ODL Bootcamp

Innovation for Hire (Consulting; ENG, PM, Marketing)

CENGN DC and Facilities

CENGN Present (Smart Data Centre)

Internet

Core & Edge

Cloud Core&Edge Metro Internet

Flexible deployment tools and

automation to create

project/service specific Openstack

cloud infrastructure instance

Redundant and resilient

core network

First leg of the CENGN Metro

network with 100G+ WAN link

Multi-homed Edge for

redundancy/diversity

100Gbps

WW Academia

200Gbps

Ottawa Internet Exchange

Ottawa Innovation

Center

Waterloo

MaRs

OttawaCANARIE

CENGN

Toronto151 Front St

Kanata

Ottawa

Innovation

Center

CENGN Pharos Lab

Lab Infrastructure

• First POD is built with Kontron SYMKLOUD MS2910 Platform

• Openstack configuration: HA with 3 Control Nodes + 2 Compute

Nodes

• SSH-based access to CENGN environment + Jumpserver for

Pharos POD (Installer, Jenkins slave etc)

First Project:

• Brahmaputra Release NFVi deployment with JOID (Juju OPNFV

Infrastructure Deployer) installer

• Verification using Project FUNCTEST scripts

Future Plans:

• Leverage Pharos Lab for Yardstick and JOID enhancements

SYMKLOUD MS2900

CENGN Projects

IP Network

NoviKit

Openflow BGP Router

• SMB:

• Member:

• Use-case:

– Introduction of SDN controlled BGP router in a traditional

IP network

• Summary:

– Hybrid BGP solution with traditional BGP routers

interworking with Openflow-enabled Noviflow BGP Router

– SDN Openflow controller ONOS with Quagga host BGP

application leveraging Atrium Project

– End to end solution demonstrated at CENGN

OpenFlow Switch - Hybrid BGP Network

vMX1vMX2

• SMB:

• Member:

• Use-case:

– Smart City applications and services over programmable infrastructure and

network

• Project Summary:

– Showcase a complete end-to-end Smart City infrastructure, management and

services in a lab environment initially, followed by a pilot project in Ottawa

– Features fibre infrastructure controller that makes it possible to have shared

substrate networks leveraged in isolation by a variety of networks for emerging

services.

– Features a Services Control Gateway that manages delivery of user-specific

services to different market segments

– Demonstrate specific applications for small business, traffic control etc.

Smart City Infrastructure and Services

IP Network

Misc Dbases

Infrastructure

Fibre and Mobile

Public

Safety

Utilities Retail Health

Transportation Government

3/4G Router Smart MetersRetail

Transport

TrafficKiosks

Surveillance

5G 4G

Applications, Analytics, Services

Infrastructure

Controller

Services Control

Gateway

Areas of Potential Collaboration CENGN & Okinawa Labs

• Joint Proof of Concepts

• Intern Swap from Canada & Japan

THANK YOU

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Introduction of OOL(Okinawa Open Laboratory)

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Okinawa Prefectural Government vision and policy for industrial development and promotion Attract companies, talents and knowledge from other prefectures in Japan

and overseas, especially Asian countries, and promote new value creation in Okinawa

Form major international ICT hub in Asia

Vision: Okinawa Smart Hub

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Okinawa Smart Hub and Okinawa Open Lab.

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SDN technology research and standardization base

OSS cloud development community

Leading Linux and OSS organization

OSS SDN development project

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Practical-use research base that integrates cloud technology and SDN technology

International R&D organization

Leading companies and organizationsfrom other prefectures in Japan

and overseas, especially Asia

Technology cooperation

Cooperation, attraction

Activity support

・Support for R&D activities・Promotion of cloud DC facility use

Contribute to realizing Okinawa Smart Hub concept Based in Okinawa with support from Okinawa Prefectural Government,

attracting leading companies, organizations, educational institutions, and research bodies from other prefectures in Japan and overseas, especially Asia, and promoting international R&D activities

Contributes to promoting concentration of ICT industries and advancement of regional companies

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Mission

Research and development activities for practical application and dissemination of advanced Information Communications Technologies (ICT), especially next-generation ICT platform technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Cloud Computing using Open Source Software (OSS, especially OpenStack)

Open Innovations

Collaboration, Joint Work

Bridging the gaps between users and providers

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Activity Model

OOL connects OSS development communities and market via use cases and reference models to expand user base of next-generation ICT platform technologies in cooperation with MEMBER and partners OOL Value Chain: Use Case Verification Ref. Model Promotion Feedback Loops: (1) OOL Market, (2) OOL OSS Dev. Communities

OSS Bodies (Community/Consortium)

Develop

Use Case Verify Promote

Issues/Needs

Apply/Use

OOL and its Members

Market (Providers and End Users)

Expand User Base

ReferenceModel

Testbed (OpenStack with SDN)

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（as of January 12th, 2016）

Board(5)

Member(29)

Fellow(14)

Total (48)

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Member List

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Dev Project Example: OF-Patch

OFPMUser

Change network topology by remote operation

OF-Patch

GUI

OFC

OFS Patch by flow

Host1 Host2 Host3

Patch panel function implemented using OpenFlowtechnology

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① Put load on virtual machines (VMs) in Okinawa from US

② Narrow down between US-Okinawa wide area network band frequencies

③ Wide area network monitoring alarms, adding VM in Tokyo

④ LB is newly activated in US, dispersing load between Okinawa and Tokyo

Wide area automated scale control (Demonstrated at Interop Tokyo 2014)

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POC Example: Automated Scale Control

USA

Okinawa

Clients

Tokyo

③ VM is automatically added

by wide area network monitoring

④ LB is newly activated

④ Does not go through when LB in US is

activated

Wide area

network

monitoring

① Put load on VMs in Okinawa from US

② Narrow down network band frequencies

between US-Okinawa

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Building Multi-Region SFC between Okinawa and Taiwan

SoftEther VPN

Virtual

Network

Service Chain

L2 Network by Overlay

VM

VM

VM

R

Okinawa

Virtual

Network

VM

VM

VM

R

Taiwan

IPSec VPN （VPNaaS）

Joint Project Example: SFC

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OPNFV Test Lab

VNF Test Automation

Service Function Chaining

Joint POC with oversea members

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Internet

Jump Server

POD#1

(Fuel)

POD#2

(RDO)

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Project Formations

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Full Time Engineers

Organizer

Companies

Research Institute

Academia

• Planning projects and goals• Communicate with companies• Communicate with Boards, Staffs and

Stakeholders (Government etc)• Manage the activities• Promote and collaborate

StaffsBoard

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Mismatch examples from Member Company

Could you buy our products?

Could you demonstrate and promote our product?

Could you use our product in your PoC?

Could you introduce potential our customers?

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Lessons Learned

Find open mind people inside companies

Educate engineers to become full stack

Organizers who understand the vision are important, because they define the culture

Keep balance between each member’s business

Keep the vision and identity, and providing values based on that

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Thanks!