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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