China Telecom's Official Website Obtained IPv6 Enabled WWW Logo Phase-2 Certification

Recently, the IPv6 Forum upgraded its IPv6 Enabled WWW Logo program to the Phase-2. Under the Phase-2 program, the website of China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. (www.chinatelecom.com.cn) has successfully passed the test, and became the first website in China that is certificated so far under the program that established a demonstration effect for other websites to follow the IPv6-based upgrade.

IPv6 Enabled Logo certification, initiated by the IPv6 Forum, is an international IPv6 program for certification of Internet online services and infrastructure. It is mainly by detecting website domain name AAAA resolution, and website IPv6 connectivity and IPv6 HTTP request response to verify if a website supports the IPv6. Currently, more than 2600 websites in the world have passed the phase-1 certification. With the development of Internet, the contents on websites have become more and more complex. In order to adapt to the new development, the IPv6 Forum upgraded the program. The upgraded certification has stricter requirements on websites' IPv6 support. In addition to domain name resolution and network connectivity required under the Phase-1, it also includes websites’software testing, web content testing, security and stability testing and some other items. In addition, the Phase-2 certification also requires websites to continue to enable IPv6 services for a long time.

The success pass of the certification test of the IPv6 Enabled WWW Phase-2 Logo means that China Telecom's website has passed all test cases, its content fully supported the IPv6, and users can browse securely, smoothly and stably under the IPv6 network environment and use various functions. Subsequently, China Telecom obtained the internationally-accepted IPv6 Enabled Phase-2 Logo certificate issued by the IPv6 Forum with a worldwide unique certification number on it.

As a part of the BII-CFIEC that was founded in 2008, the Global IPv6 Testing Center is the earliest authorized IPv6 testing and certification laboratory of the IPv6 Forum, and is the initiator of the IPv6 Enabled Logo certification program. The Global IPv6 Testing Center has so far become a third-party IPv6 testing and certification organization that is with longest history, largest scale, and largest number of tests in the world. Since its establishment, the testing center has focused on formulation of industry standards, testing platform design, research and development in areas such as consistency, interoperability, automation, and performance. Also, it provides global third-party authoritative testing and certification services including IPv6 Ready, IPv6 Enabled, and IPv6 Education to accelerate global deployment of the IPv6.

Technology leads the future! GNTC Global Network Technology Conference will be held in Nanjing, October

From October 22-24, 2019, GNTC Global Network Technology Conference will be held in Nanjing. As an industrial event with the largest influences in global network technology, GNTC, having been developed for 4 years, has become an important wind indicator for the development of network technology. More than one thousand industrial leaders, elites will gather together to promote the sustainable development of global network technology by in-depth communication and cooperation. Based on the past events, “2019 Global Network Technology Conference” will be greatly updated providing a wonderful feast of network technology for the audience, characteristic of “various topics, high level, large scale, diversification and prestigious awards”.

Various topics--The tide of network reconstruction is striking fast around the globe. The technological development is ever-changing with emerging concepts and new applications. GNTC 2019 will focus more on cutting-edge and hot spot technical areas, including 5G, IPv6, SDN, NFV, AI, cloud, IoT, edge computing and blockchain, fully demonstrating the present status of global network technology and its tendency from technology to application.

Diversification--GNTC 2019 will organize 1 awarding ceremony, 2 plenary session, 3 days exhibitions, 6 special summits and several technical seminars and technical training camps, providing the audience with a splendid network technology feast.

High level--GNTC has always been famous for its guests, which is leading the industrial tendency. In the past events, many domestic and foreign top experts have given brilliant speeches, including Vint Cerf “father of the Internet”, Wu Hequan, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wu Jianping, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Nick McKeown, founder of SDN. This year, GNTC will further expand its scale of guests. More than one hundred big shots will come to the event and over 150 lectures will be waiting for you.

Large scale--Since 2016, GNTC has been widely supported and participated by the industry. The number of participants in each of the past events has exceeded 2,000. Besides, domestic and foreign organizations and global service suppliers will also take part in improving the development of global network technology by deepening the communication and cooperation, such as China Institute of Communications, Internet Society of China, IEEE, ETSI, APNIC, IPv6 Forum, Linux Foundation, ONF, MEF, CMCC, China Unicom, China Telecom, AT&T, Telefónica, NTT Docomo and PCCW.

Prestigious awards--In order to further facilitate the innovation and development of network technology, GNTC 2019 will also hold “GNTC Awards Awarding Ceremony” during the same period when all industrial experts, audiences present will vote to select the most excellent, innovated, advanced and representative solutions in tribute to the industrial propellants.

Network changes the world and technology leads the future! At present, the application system of “GNTC 2019 Global Network Technology Conference” has fully opened. You may apply by visiting www.theGNTC.com or following “theGNTC” on Wechat platform and even have a chance to exchange ideas with big shots face-to-face or discuss more cooperation with industrial partners. GNTC is looking forward to your visit.

Network & Compute Developers Conference to be Held in June in Beijing

We are marching toward to golden age of developers!

With the trend of "network software" becoming more and more obvious, the design and operation of network and computing infrastructure are changing. Development will become a key word, which drives and leads the future of the next generation of Internet. From June 20 to 21, 2019, BII will jointly organize the first Network & Compute Developers Conference (NCDC) in conjunction with international organizations, development communities and open source projects in the field of global networks and computing.

As the world's first developers conference focusing on network and computing, this conference will last for two days, creating an ecological grand event, imbued with contents, fun, attitudes and depth, for the vast number of developers through many events, such as Panel, Keynote Speech, Booth Talk, Developers workshop, Developers Tutorial, The Night of Developers and so on.

Developers Workshop: Enlisting Global Hotspot Networks and Compute Projects

This is a developer’s event with contents. The Organizing Committee will organize more than ten developers workshop on different topics with international organizations and communities in network and computing, including ONOS, P4, Tungsten Fabric, ONAP, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, Stratum, OpenFog, CORD, OpenStack, OCP, EdgeX Foundry etc, which enlist global hotspot networks and computing projects so that developers can learn whatever they want at free will.

Booth Talk: Face-to-Face Communication with Technical Leaders

This is a developers’ event with attitude. In order to build relationships between developers and experts, NCDC will launch a special "Booth Talk" event. All international project technical leaders, manufacturers' technical representatives and user unit experts participating in the exhibition will have demo demonstrations and explanations in their respective exhibition areas after the keynote speech on the morning of the first day of the conference. They will answer the developers' questions and let the developers have a direct dialogue with the experts.

At the same time, all on-site visitors will be given the exclusive seals of different exhibition areas after visiting each exhibition area. If you collect all seals, you will receive special prizes provided by the Organizing Committee and have the opportunity to participate in the lottery at The Night of Developers.

The Night of Developers: An Exclusive Developers’ Party

This is a The Night of Developers with fun. NCDC will launch a special The Night of Developers campaign to create a blockbuster night for developers!

Here, you will have the most vigorous DJ and band; here, you will enjoy unlimited food and drinks; here, you will try attractive lottery activities; here, you can chat with technical leaders of major organizations and projects; here, there are world-renowned enterprises to share with you the most IN products; here, there are hundreds of developers to drink together. There is no end to development and no end to the party.

Developers Tutorial: Opening the New World for Developers’ Training

This is a developers’ event with depth. With the rapid advancement of network change, various network and computing projects emerge one after another, and the iteration speed of versions of different projects is very fast. For developers, how to quickly have insight into international hotspot projects and understand the characteristics of new versions of projects in a short time has become one of the concerns for many developers. Developers Tutorial of NCDC can solve the problem perfectly, so that developers can have a deep understanding of each project

Developers Tutorial will be based on the latest versions of major developers' projects to conduct comprehensive, systematic and targeted developer training. Project technical experts will teach in person to create the best platform for all developers at different levels to learn, share and socialize.

This Network & Compute Developers Conference will attract more than 1000 people, including many developers, engineers, architects and test engineers at home and abroad. At present, the registration channel for the conference has been officially opened. Developers are welcome to follow the official wechat "theNCDC" for registration. Network & Compute Developers Conference (NCDC) is looking forward to your participation.

China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group was Formally Established to Help Diversification of Edge Access

Recently, led by China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute and BII-Global SDN Certified Testing Center, along with more than 10 suppliers and partners, China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group has been officially announced, which, based on the open source system architecture and software platform of ONF CORD Certification Brigade, gathers the energy of the whole industry, realizes collaborative innovation and win-win cooperation, and drives the development of edge computing.

Figure: Members of China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group

After its establishment, China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group will carry out CORD test case compilation and standard formulation within the system framework of Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to jointly promote the launch of CORD certification project. It will mainly carry out group component testing, centralized testing, optimize CORD POD deployment process, conduct CORD functional, performance and reliability testing, launch the internal group testing standards for China CORD Industry Alliance, and deploy pilot projects in China Unicom and other application units. CORD testing will provide assurance to the operator community to ensure that the supplier's products meet the common critical functions, performance and life cycle requirements in the CORD environment.

China CORD Industry Alliance was initiated by China Unicom in 2016 to integrate the advantages and resources of traditional operators, CORD manufacturers, chip manufacturers and software service providers, while introducing the concept of open source into cooperation. Based on architecture and software technology of CORD open source organization and relying on industry alliance, China CORD Industry Alliance will strengthen open source development capability, achieve synergistic innovation and win-win cooperation, jointly promote the commercial deployment of CORD in China, and accelerate the transformation to a new generation of network architecture.

ONF is an international open alliance organization led by operators in 2011. By using SDN, NFV and cloud technology to build solutions around network hardware and software decoupling, white box devices, open source software and software definition standards, ONF promotes the transformation of network infrastructure and business modes of operators, and helps the whole ecosystem to significantly reduce the cost of Capex and Opex, including 5G. Mobile networks, super broadband and other future network technologies.

CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a DataCenter) project is an open source project in SDN field initiated and managed by ONF. It is an ideal platform for building and constructing edge cloud concept. The latest version has fully supported cloud native application Kubernetes. Apart from supporting the transformation of operator's CO (Central Office) into cloud data center, CORD transforms operator's and enterprise's edge computer room into a basic platform with edge access capability. Its goal is to provide reference to the implementation of network operator's service delivery platform. Its core output includes a software platform, a series of hardware specifications and service models. CORD project integrates a series of open source projects, including OpenStack, Docker and ONOS®, and uses DevOps application development model to build an open, programmable and agile platform for network operators. The scenarios of CORD are mainly divided into home access business (R-CORD), enterprise business (E-CORD) and mobile business (M-CORD). In the above scenarios, CORD has also developed monitoring analysis (A-CORD).

In this April, China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group will hold its first meeting in Beijing to carry out testing and standard-setting work, help pilot project of China CORD edge platform deployment, accelerate the development of the entire industry, and promote the construction of a new industrial ecological system.

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Review of Highlights of Previous Sessions of GNTC

From November 14 to 16, 2018, the annual "Global Network Technology Conference" (abbreviated as GNTC) will officially kick off. As one of the largest network technology events in the world, GNTC is committed to promoting the rapid development of global network technologies and promoting the exchange of global industry chains. GNTC has always been renowned in the industry for its high specification, depth, multi-organization and practical content. In addition to its existing advantages, the “GNTC 2018” will add more highlights. Through 1 Plugfest, 1 award ceremony, 2 plenary sessions, 6 technical summits and dozens of workshops, it provides a wonderful network technology feast for the audience.

In order to enable audience to have a deeper and clearer understanding of GNTC, the author specially sorted out the highlights of the previous sessions. Let us review the GNTC we have attended in the past.

Partners: deepening cooperation and promoting industrial development on a global scale

Since the inaugural GNTC in 2016, it has received extensive support and participation from the industry. China Institute of Communications Internet Society of China, IEEE, ETSI, APNIC, IPv6 Forum, Linux Foundation, ONF, MEF, P4 Language Alliance and other domestic and foreign organizations, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, AT&T, Telefonica, NTT Docomo, PCCW and other global operators are fully involved to push the global network technology forwards through deepening exchange and cooperation.

In the meanwhile, H3C, Huawei, ZTE, Intel, Google, Brocade, Juniper, Certus, Daho, VCMY Technology, TiCOMM, Yunshan, Barefoot, Centec, Ixia, EmbedWay Technology, V6PLUS and many other companies have sponsored or participated in GNTC. By sharing the latest products and solutions, participating in relevant testing activities, delivering keynote speeches and presenting on site, we can also find many partners and users while achieving brand promotion, mutual benefit and win-win, and promoting the industry forward.

Speakers: Gathering the industry's top experts

GNTC's guest lineup has always been known for leading the industry trend. At the previous conferences, the father of the Internet Vint Cerf, the academician of CAE Wu Hequan and Wu Jianping, the SDN pioneer Nick McKeown, the DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris, the Linux Foundation VP of operation Phil Robb, president of MEF Nan Chen, VP of ONF William Snow, AT&T Lead member of Technical Staff Steven Wright and hundreds of top domestic and foreign experts delivered wonderful speeches.

Dan Pitt, senior vice president of MEF, said after participating in the GNTC, “I have been to China for related activities for last five years. GNTC is the largest and most successful. The GNTC has gathered many technical topics, the world's top experts, the most influential international organizations, etc. Each of them brings very warm and valued perspective."

 

Figure: Past speakers at the GNTC (Partial)

Discussion topic: focusing on hotspots and gaining insight into the future of the industry

As the Internet penetrates and transforms all walks of life at an unprecedented rate and becomes an important infrastructure for human society, the innovation and development of network technology becomes more and more important. After three years of development, the "GNTC" has become an important indicator of the development of network technology, and also witnessed the continuous development of the industry.

GNTC is themed on “New Technology • New Architecture • New Network”. The topics of the conference include network reconfiguration, cloud network convergence, Internet infrastructure, SDN, NFV, 5G, cloud and data center, IPv6, NB-IoT, Internet of Things, edge computing, network security, CORD, P4, ONAP, etc., covering various cutting-edge technologies and hot topics in the current network field. At the same time, each session of the GNTC is closely linked to the pulse of industrial development, digs into deeper content year by year, which is advanced and prospective. Through the development path of the GNTC, we can not only fully understand the development history of network technology, but also gain insight into future industry trends.

On-site audience: gathering elites to penetrate the entire industry chain

As the guests, topics and content of the conference are attractive, each session of the GNTC attracted thousands of visitors to participate. At the same time, the number of people who follow the content of the conference online during the same period through the live broadcast and live video broadcast of the conference exceeds 200,000 each time.

According to statistics, GNTC viewers cover all aspects of the industry chain such as operators, government agencies, equipment vendors and user units. At the same time, 80% of the participants are technical engineers or those with the same industry background, some are corporate technology and market decision makers, and some provide valuable industry information and analysis for the company's business development.

Figure: Analysis of previous audiences at the GNTC

Compared with previous years, GNTC 2018 will be fully upgraded in terms of technical direction, guest specifications, discussion topics, and participation scale. During the three-day conference, the current status of network development will be fully demonstrated through various activities such as test activities, exhibitions, keynote speeches, technical summits, workshops, and awards ceremonies. At present, the GTNC registration system has been fully opened. Visit the official website www.theGNTC.com, or follow the WeChat official account "theGNTC" to register to have face-to-face dialogue with the industry's big names and explore more cooperation opportunities with industry partners. The GNTC conference is waiting for you to participate.

2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest Testing Event Just Around the Corner

In recent years, new communication technologies such as SDN and NFV have seen constant development and real-world application, setting off waves of transition to next generation networks. Major service providers and Internet giants are all actively exploring new technologies and conducting technical assessments. What’s more, IPv6 has become the focus of everyone’s attention in 2018. Against this backdrop, to facilitate development of SDNFV and IPv6 industries, promote the experimental verification and rapid implementation of new technologies and architectures, improve efficiency and quality of network deployment, and reduce the difficulty of network operation and maintenance, the “2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest” Testing Event will be opened in Nanjing this October to help the SDN/NFV/IPv6 industry conduct technical testing through the creation of a technical exchange platform.

The event is jointly organized by the BII in conjunction with China Unicom’s CORD Industry Alliance, Open Network Foundation (ONF), Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and the IPv6 Forum.

The SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest testing event is intended to be a full-scale stereoscopic test for complete SDN/NFV solutions and IPv6 upgrade solutions. Testing includes SDN northbound-southbound interface test, SR-based interoperability test, NS self-healing/self-expansion test, NFV network performance and interoperability test, VNF function and data plane performance test, SFC test, NFVI & VIM function test, IPv6 protocol and security test, IPv4aaS test, as well as end-to-end scenario testing. In contrast to previous years, this testing event is a joint effort by service providers, open source communities, and relevant industry alliances.

I. SD-WAN Based Cloud Network Convergence End-to-End Networking

The 2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest testing event aims to build an SD-WAN network. Its access points will be based on NFV architecture. The backbone network will be based on the SR source routing technology. SDDC technology will be used in the cloud data center, supplemented with the necessary SDN controller and services orchestrator, building enterprise end-to-end business scenarios such as from branch offices to headquarters, enterprise to cloud, DC to DC and verifying SD-WAN support for IPv6, SD-WAN automatic path optimization, fast fault recovery and SLA protections, etc.

II. Adding IPv6 upgrade and transitional technology testing and SR support testing

This year will see explosive growth in IPv6 application and deployment in China. Since the publication of the  Action Plan for Promoting Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Large-Scale Deployment , IPv6 large-scaled deployment has entered the fast lane. In the 2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest testing event, IPv6 transition, IPv6 only, IPv6 security testing and other tests will be a major technical highlight.

In addition, the event will also feature testing of SR-MPLS data plane interoperability and IPv6 data plane interoperability between different vendors’ devices in backbone networking scenarios, as well as segment routing (SR) control plane and data plane interoperability. In view of the characteristics of SR, it has carried out cross-vendors testing of TI-LFA, SRv6 Network Programming, PCEP automatic calculation path, etc., thus tracking the industry’s support for SR technology.

III. NFV orchestrator and multi-vendor VNF interoperability

This year, the 2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest testing event will see the building of NFV scenarios in the access point end and the performing of function, performance, interoperability and decoupling tests on vCPE, vFW, vBRAS and other network elements, and NFV infrastructure and MANO, as well as the verification of feasibility of the networking technology architecture supporting its upper-layer business requirements.

In addition, China Unicom’s CORD Industry Alliance has customized R-CORD and M-CORD test scenarios for the event. 

After the 2018 SDN+NFV+IPv6 Fest testing event, the testing equipment and solutions will be demonstrated at the “GNTC 2018 Global Networking Technology Conference” held on November 14-16. By which time, through white paper release, on-site showcase, network testing workshop and other activities, the test results will be shared with the industry. Let us work together on a new chapter of the SDN/NFV/IPv6 industry! Industry partners and vendors are invited to participate, please register at: info@sdnctc.com, +8610-56381682.

Insight into the Future: GNTC 2018 Global Network Technology Conference Fully Upgraded

From November 14 to 16, 2018, the "GNTC Global Network Technology Conference" will kick off in full swing. After three years of development, GNTC has become an important indicator for the development of network technology. It gathers strategic planning, industrial direction, technology trends, and application innovations. Through continuous deepening of exchanges and cooperation, it continues to advance global network technology. This year, GNTC will be fully upgraded from the perspective of guest scale, technical direction, international organization cooperation and awards selection so as to present a more exciting networking technology feast to the audience.

Large-scale guest presence and more technical directions

The tide of network reconfiguration spreads rapidly around the world. The network technology is developing by leaps and bounds. New concepts and technologies are introduced on the international stage. This year, more than 120 speeches of GNTC are well prepared and nearly 200 guests will be present. On the first day of the conference, the “Global Network Technology Development Trend” plenary session unveils the event. A number of domestic and foreign academicians, leaders of international organizations and representatives of well-known enterprises attend the event to share the international development pattern. Subsequently, through seven special summits and multiple workshops, experts in various fields will explore the status quo and specific applications. Finally, the conference comes to the “integration and application of network technology” and the international operators and representatives of Internet companies share the practical and effective planning blueprints with the current technology trends to jointly explore the future possibilities.

Photo: 2017 GNTC plenary session

In the special summit sharing, GNTC will continue to follow the mainstream technology trends such as SDN, NFV, IPv6, 5G, cloud, transfer from theoretical discussion to experiment and practice. On this basis, Internet of Things and edge computing, block chain summit are added to cover a wider range of technical fields. With the advent of the era of Internet of Everything, the rapid development and powerful potential of the Internet of Things have attracted the attention of industry. The front-end equipment has exploded and the data generated has been rising. As a result, edge computing has also received great attention. In addition, the block chain has risen rapidly in recent years and is regarded as one of the core technologies for changing the future. Many new alliances and enterprises have emerged. GNTC keeps pace with the times and will focus on the nature of technology and explore its development and application.

Engage more international technology organizations in the discussion

GNTC's annual excellent speeches are substantial and highly valued. It is one of the core strengths of the conference. The seniors from many international technical organizations come to the scene to share the latest technology trends. The special workshop is organized to bring GNTC’s rich structure and content to a new level.

Last year, the GNTC held five workshops, which all had a full house and received wide attention and praise from the audience. Nick McKeown, academician of the National Academy of Engineering, professor of Stanford University, Timon Sloane, Vice Chairman of ONF, Phil Robb, vice president of Linux Foundation, Wang Yachen, ONAP Board President and other domestic and foreign guests attended the workshops and communicated with the audience. This year, GNTC not only retains popular projects such as P4, ONAP, CORD and network testing, but also joins hands with more organizations and Internet companies to create hot topics such as OCP, enterprise Ethereum, investment and entrepreneurship, and Belt and Road network infrastructure. A number of closed-door meetings will be held during the same period.

Case solicitation, authoritative selection, GNTC Awards pays tribute to industry promoters

The GNTC will also hold a special "GNTC Awards Ceremony", where all the speakers, industry experts, media and audience will vote to select outstanding solutions with innovation, advancement, influence and industry representative. The “GNTC Innovation Award” and the “GNTC People's Choice Award” will be awarded to pay tribute to industry promoters and promote the implementation of network technologies.

Network is an important infrastructure for human society. The innovative development of network technology is the core force to promote the development of digital economy, and it is also the driving force for the continuous advancement of human society. The organizing committee encourages excellent solutions in various network technologies such as IPv6, 5G, cloud, SDN, NFV, blockchain, Internet of Things and edge computing to participate in the application for selection and provide presence opportunity for all solutions that passed the primary selection. Through such a selection form, we will dig deeper into the benchmark solutions in various fields of network technology to promote the popularization of technology applications and the transformation and development of the industry.

At present, the GTNC Global Network Technology Conference registration system has been fully opened. Visit the official website www.theGNTC.com, or follow the official Wechat account "theGNTC" to successfully register to win the opportunities for face-to-face dialogue with the industry's big shots and explore more cooperation opportunities with industry partners. The GNTC conference looks forward to your participation.