Between 28^th and 30^th November 2017, organized by the BII-CFIEC, the GNTC 2017 Global Network Technology Conference (www.theGNTC.com) will be launched in a conference center of The Great Wall Hotel Beijing. As the largest network technology conference in mainland China, GNTC 2017 will attract over 2000 attendees, concentrating on the trend of future network technology development, discuss new challenges, new opportunities for current network industry, demonstrate the newest network technology implementation cases and discuss together the reconfiguration process of the global network.

Picture: 2016 GNTC conference scene photo

In this 3-day event, GNTC 2017 sets up 2 main conferences, 1 panel discussion, 8 technical summits and several workshops. In the 8 technical summits, there are topics covering Internet infrastructure, SDN, NFV, IPv6, 5G, NB-IoT, network security, cloud and data center, edge network and edge computing and other new generation network technology hot issues, and over 100 major guest speakers will share their latest technology achievements and solutions and deliver outstanding speeches full of tested practical experience and extracted essences.

Picture: GNTC 2017 Global Network Technology Conference Schedule

SDN/NFV Summit: Transforming and Commercializing Network Core Technology

Under the wave of global network transformation, the technical ideas initiated by SDN/NFV, including network opening, virtualization, fusion and intellectualization, have received more widely recognition from the industry. After 10 years of rapid development, SDN/NFV has gradually formed its shape, and there are endless solutions serving SDN/NFV as the core technology.

This GNTC conference will set up separate SDN summit and NFV summit, invite international organizations and experts of open source projects including MEF, ONF, OPNFV, CORD, ONAP etc. to focus on technical hot topics such as controller and SD-WAN and have practical experience in network deployment shared. Meanwhile, the inaugurator of SDN, Professor Nick McKeown from Stanford University, will also be at the conference to share his insights. 

Network Security Summit: The Era of Great Security, Network Security Admits of No Delay

In the great security era, network security industry, network security situation and network security strategy are undergoing tremendous changes. In June this year, China’s first comprehensive basic law, Network Security Law, to regulate the network space security management was formally promulgated which is of far-reaching significance in protecting China’s network security.  

In GNTC 2017 network security summit, representatives and experts from domestic and foreign network security enterprises will share and display the development trend of global network security, the latest security protection technology and results, hot security topics and so forth.

Global Internet Infrastructure Forum: “Golden Age” is Coming, How to Get Through the “Last Mile” of IPv6?

In recent years, the number of users and traffic of IPv6 is growing rapidly; the next generation internet development is entering its golden age. According to Google, up to now, global IPv6 traffic has accounted for 20% of total internet traffic, while the figure in the United States has reached 35% and that is higher in Belgium (51.4%). As one of the earliest countries in the world to conduct IPv6 research and development and application, our country has lots of first mover advantages in the deployment and practice of IPv6. In the Global Internet Infrastructure Forum of GNTC 2017, you will listen to guest speakers to share their latest and most complete next generation internet best practices and discover how to get through the “last mile”.

5G Summit: Ready to go, How Far is 5G from Landing

Every social revolution or economic transformation is accompanied by technological innovation and breakthroughs. In the 5G era, boundaries will be infinitely broadened, unmanned driving, robot application and other newly emerged technologies will collaborate and work together to build a broader and more powerful platform through 5G to push humanity closer towards intelligent life. At present, a number of countries around the world have released 5G roadmap, plan to determine technical standards in the next five years and achieve commercialization of 5G. However, for China, who has growing discourse power in the field of communication in recent years, 5G is a must-not-miss opportunity of the times. At the 5G summit in GNTC 2017, many key and significant guests will share the standard making results and the latest deployment scenario cases with us.  

NB-IoT Summit: NB-IoT Outbreak Period, Opening Up the New Space for Internet of Things

The narrow band internet of things has become an important branch of the Internet of Things. Different from all 10MHz or 20MHz bandwidth applying standard LTE, the construction of NB-IoT is based on cellular network which only consumes about 180KHz bandwidth. It can be directly deployed in the GSM network, UMTS network or LTE network in order to reduce deployment costs and achieve a smooth upgrade. At GNTC 2017, the three major operators, solution providers, user units et cetera will gather together at the NB-IoT summit to share technology landing scheme and jointly lead the development trend of the industry.

Cloud and Data Center Summit: Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Transformation

The digital transformation of the industry is accelerating the clouded enterprise data center, however, data center network, as the footstone cloud construction, faces challenges like complex architecture design, long deployment cycle, difficult fault location and so forth which are important restricting factors for the digital transformation of the industry. At the GNTC 2017 conference, representatives from BATJ and other enterprises will gather together at the Cloud and Data Center Summit to share the opportunities and challenges they have encountered during their application deployment.

Edge Network & Edge Computing Summit: Network Edge Intelligence Has Become an Important Trend of Network Technology

According to the latest statistics report by IDC, it is estimated that by 2020 there will be over 50 billion terminals and devices connected to the network. With the large amount of devices accessing the IoT, when the massive data generated on the terminal equipment provide commercial values, they will also challenge the data processing and the network edge intellectualization will become an important development trend. At the Edge Network and Edge Computing Summit in the GNTC 2017, there will be industrial leaders from all over the world to discuss the development of edge network and edge computing, tracking MEC and other popular trends as well as to share the latest solutions.

To display cutting-edge technologies and dialogue industry elites, the 2017 GNTC Global Network Technology Conference sincerely invites all of you to come to participate and jointly embrace the new era of network featured “new technology, new architecture, and new network”. The website of this conference is www.theGNTC.com. We look forward to your participation. 

Network Transformation - The Global Network Technology Conference (GNTC) will be held from November 28 in Beijing

The Global Network Technology Conference (GNTC) which is themed as "New Technology, New Architecture and New Network", will be opened at The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel Beijing from November 28-30^th, 2017 (www.theGNTC.com). Last year, over 2,000 attendees in the network communications industry participated in the unprecedented GNTC. This year, BII-CFIEC as the organizer will add a multiple of summits and hot workshops and invite more global top technical experts to the scene where in the 3-day meeting they will share their views on the most pure technical trends, showcase the latest and most complete networking technologies and applications, and discuss global network reconstruction with onsite industry elites.

As the largest network technology event in China, it will set up 2 main sessions, 13 roundtable forum, 8 technical summits (SDN, NFV, IPv6, 5G, NB-IoT, network security, cloud and data center, edge network and edge computing) and a number of workshops (P4, third class network, CORD, ONAP, etc.), covering all the hot spots of the new generation of network technologies, and all-round presenting the latest development of the industry and technology. By providing a platform for the parties to communicate and exchange, it is dedicated to promoting win-win cooperation and the process of network reconstruction.

Through more than 40 years, the network has become an important infrastructure for human society, becoming a core force to promote economic development and enhance the human society to move forward. With the launches of "Internet +" and "broadband China" and other national Initiatives, and with the rapid development of network technologies and the increasing user demands, the information and communications industry is facing both new opportunities and challenges, and openness, innovation and integration have become an important trend. The traditional network architecture and operating system have become more and more difficult to adapt to the new requirements of the Internet business. As new generation of network technology revolution followed suit to spring up, network transformation has become a trend inevitable. In the future, IPv6 will provide a wider range of address resources; SDN / NFV will provide network flexibility and intelligence; 5G will bring a wider bandwidth and mobility; NB-IoT will make better access of the Internet of Things; clouding trend is unstoppable, and the integration of Edge network and edge computing and other network technologies will plug wings for the Internet to develop...

As a key force to push reconstruction of the network architecture, operators at home and abroad invariably put focus on the key issue of network reconstruction, and have developed a transformation strategy, hoping to occupy a favorable position in the future network development industry by judging both from the views of own development or service provision. China Mobile released its "Big Connection" development strategy for the next decade; China Unicom released the new generation of network architecture CUBE-Net 2.0; China Telecom released the white paper of CTNet2025 network architecture, all stressing that the network transformation is the only way for operators to develop. Internationally, the United States’ Verizon and AT&T, Japan’s NTT, and British Telecom and other mainstream operators also announced a number of network reconstruction plans and strategies, and have stressed the need to use SDN and NFV technologies to build a new generation of network architecture, and has achieved preliminary results. Among them, AT&T has first released Domain 2.0 plan to promote forward the network transitioning to SDN / NFV-based new architecture, and to start cooperating cloud services with IBM. Verizon has made a lot of attempts in cloud system integration, and introduced cloud computing services. They combine the cloud architecture with the transformation strategy, bring together more quality resources, respond timely to the changes in the entire communications and computer industry, and set a good example for the industry as a whole. From which we can also foresee great changes would occur in the future network.

From another point of view, major manufacturers and application clients are both the forces to support network reconstruction and direct beneficiaries, and had early begun to focus on basic technologies of SDN / NFV, IPv6, NB-IoT, cloud data center, edge network and edge computing and other new structural network. In the future, operators and manufacturers and users will shift from the current simple sales model to the model of integrated innovation and joint development that will produce a profound impact on the entire communications industry chain

In this context, this GNTC conference will invite experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, network technology pioneers of countries, and selected experts of the Internet Hall of Fame to deliver speeches on the trends of world network technology development. In addition, the conference will collaborate with experts and contributors from Linux Foundation, ONF, MEF, APNIC, IPv6 Forum, OPNFV, ONAP, 3GPP and other communities to communicate with the audience on the latest technological achievements. At the same time, we will also invite representatives of well-known global operators, major manufacturers and application units to gather in Beijing to commit to the shared mission.

Showcasing advanced technologies and discussing with industrial elites, the Global Network Technology Conference (GNTC) 2017 will invite visitors to join us in a new era of "new technology, new architecture, and new network". The organizing committee looks forward to your participation.

CE Router Certification Opens Up the Last Mile to IPv6 Fixed Line

With reference to IPv6, probably most end users might not have any sense of it. The mainstream parlance in the industry is that network carriers and content and service providers stick to their own arguments. Carriers believe owing to the lack of IPv6 content and service, the demand for IPv6 from the users is very small. The content and service providers hold that users cannot have access to content and service through IPv6 and that why they should provide the service in this background.

Dr. Song Linjian of CFIEC stated in the article China, towards fully-connected IPv6 networks that Chicken and Egg paradox between IPv6 networks and content is just temporary and that it surely exists but not the key reason. China has already prepared itself. When the last mile problem is solved, the users will fully explode. Long ago, every telecom carrier started to strictly implement the network device procurement requirements that network devices must support IPv6 such as the IPv6 Ready Logo testing and certificating which can satisfy this requirement. However, the CE (home gateways and wireless routers, etc.) purchased by users themselves mostly do not support IPv6, which caused the last mile problem.

 “When IPv6 is still burgeoning, it is hard to require the vendors and users to have the devices with IPv6-enabled and IPv6-certified. The enterprises produce mature CE Routers （Customer Edge Router, home gateway routers）that support IPv6 do not launch their products to the Chinese market in that customers do not have demand for IPv6. This has become the narrowest bottleneck that hinders the development of IPv6 fixed line users.” said the Director of the BII-SDNCTC Li Zhen with reference to the fixed line IPv6 development.

In the upcoming era of IoT, more and more devices need to be connected, and the home gateway CE routers, as the switch center of home network information and data, needs full support for IPv6. From another perspective, it can also be seen that the home gateways have won enough attention to IPv6. On March 19^th 2014, international IPv6 organization IPv6 Forum and IPv6 Ready Logo committee officially announced the initiation of the IPv6 Ready CE Router Logo conformance and interoperability testing and certificating program, which marks the full support from brand-new CE Router certificating program of next generation Ipv6 deployment and commercialization. According to the statistics from IPv6 Forum, at present, there are 3000 network devices that passed the Ipv6 Ready certification. The rate of supporting IPv6 is very high. But when it comes to the home gateway CE devices, the next CE scaling testing program CE Router under the framework of IPv6 Ready Logo, only 17 devices from US Netgear, ZTE, Broadcom, etc. have passed IPv6 Ready Logo certification. As the key to access to the last mile of IPv6 in the households, the Chinese market for routing devices bears great potential. The CE Router certified devices will have stronger competitive edge to take hold of vantage ground in the next generation network deployment and commercialization.

According to the Global IPv6 Testing Center, the devices to be certified by CE Router Logo are the smart home gateways, such as the home routers, wireless routers, GPON&EPON end devices, etc. The testing content covers the core protocols (Phase-2 enhanced certificating), all the tests in DHCPv6 and RFC084. Compared to other certifications (Core, DHCPv6, Ipsecv6, SNMPv6), the certification is highly targeted at devices and much stricter. In the future, more CE routers will be certified by IPv6 and the seamless deployment of home IPv6 will be gradually realized to solve the last mile problem of the access to IPv6 by carriers. This will have far-reaching influence on the transition of the users to IPv6.