CENGN PARTNERS WITH INOCYBE TO EXPAND ITS SDN OPENDAYLIGHT TRAINING AND EXPERTISE

The Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) is an industry-led consor-tium of corporate, academic and research members committed to ensuring that Canada is a global leader in the commercialization of technologies that will underpin the next generation of converged global communica-tion networks.

“The Software Defi ned Networking, “SDN” and Network Function Virtualization, “NFV” market is expected to be worth $40 Billion worldwide by 2018 and account for close to 40% of the global communications networking market. This is an area of focus for CENGN and we are targeting new SDN and NFV network technologies, applications and services,” says Ritch Dusome, CEO of CENGN. “Inocybe’s expertise in SDN and OpenDaylight development and training make them an ideal partner and collaborator for us.”

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The industry is undergoing a fundamental change driven by the convergence of all content, voice, video, data, mobility and

the exponential growth of cloud based applications. By 2020, there will be 50 billion smart connected devices – more than the number of people on the planet. In order to meet the fl uctuating demand for network bandwidth, future networks will need to be dynamic – using technology such as SDN and NFV. This transition is already underway, creating a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs and researchers to create new products, applica-tions and services to enter this $19 trillion dollar market.

Moving from hardware to software-dominated networks will lead to a signifi cant change in the skill sets required by companies and employees in the sector. CENGN is leading in training this next generation of talent, utilizing its own talented team, the resources of its members and partnering with the best in class companies.

“Canada’s fate in the knowledge-based era rests on the nation’s ability to continuously improve its communications infrastruc-ture and talent pool,” says Mathieu Lemay, CEO and Founder of Montreal’s Inocybe Technologies Inc. “CENGN is creating an ecosystem with the necessary knowledge to leapfrog Canada into a world leadership role in Next Generation Networks.”

The draw of CENGN for Lemay’s company is close collabora-tion and relationship building with CENGN’s powerful array of multinational telecom companies. Those companies – including Alcatel-Lucent, Allstream, BTI Systems, Cisco, EWA Canada,

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Lemay is a serial entrepreneur who earned a Masters in Photonics from the École de technologie supérieure at the Université du Québec. From 2001-2005 at Communications Research Centre (CRC) he worked on the development of User Controlled Light Path (UCLP) at Canada’s designer of a national digital infrastructure, CANARIE. That project inspired the develop-ment of SDN on a global basis.

His 20 team members in Montreal and Gatineau, Quebec are leaders in virtualization techniques and top devel-opers of OpenDaylight, an open source platform backed by Cisco Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and Ericsson among other industry heavyweights.

When he found out about CENGN’s mission to discover and unlock the potential of Canadian Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) companies working on Next Generation Network technolo-gies, Lemay immediately saw its strategic value.

“SDN and NFV is a hotbed of innovation with a broad spectrum of vendors bringing products and technologies to market,” he says. “Ironically, the myriad options may prove counterproduc-tive to SDN and NFV adoption. Many smaller organizations, overwhelmed by choice, also have to avoid the pitfalls of nascent technologies such as inconsistent interoperability, limited management tools or fragmentation. Our work with CENGN helps clear this commercialization clutter.”

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ADVANCED TRAINING

Inocybe’s training for CENGN project companies will cover fundamental and advanced levels, and provide vendor-specifi c modules to facilitate training for student interns and vendors working on CENGN commercialization acceleration projects.

Dusome reinforces Lemay’s comments, adding, “Inocybe Technologies is a great partner with invaluable expertise to help CENGN train the next crop of exciting Canadian companies in SDN technologies. It’s a highly innovative, highly respected fi rm with a very large footprint on global SDN development. We’re very pleased they’re working with us.”

CONTACT INFORMATION

Inocybe Technologies Inc.1-888-445-7505www.inocybe.com

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Next generation networks present a $5 trillion market and megatrend opportunities for countries and companies that can move quickly. CENGN members have combined power of 199,000 people, $11 billion of R&D and $84 billion of revenue and are responsible for 90% of Canada’s telecommunications industry R&D.

“Inocybe’s expertise in SDN and OpenDaylight development and training make them an ideal partner and collaborator.”RITCH DUSOME, PRESIDENT & CEO, CENGN

“Canada’s fate in the knowledge-based era rests on our ability to continuously improve communications infrastructure and talent. CENGN is creating an ecosystem with the necessary knowledge to leapfrog Canada into a world leadership role.”MATHIEU LEMAY, CEO, INOCYBE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

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