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. 

SDN/NFV Solutions Custom Testing Served by BII-SDNCTC

BII-SDNCTC officially launched its SDN/NFV solution custom testing service. As one of the key links through the industrial chain and innovation chain, the third party neutral testing and certificating is of critical importance to establishing a consummate industrial ecosystem. The inception of the SDN/NFV solution certificating program not only can test all-in solutions to boost the implementation efficiency, but also can objectively and comprehensively demonstrate the capability of commercial deployment to the industry.

SDN/NFV has been around for over ten years, and recently the cases of application keep emerging, with fast development of technology and industry. With the SDN/NFV technology as the core, the network restructuring has become the zeitgeist of the network infrastructure upgrading. Network software orientation, virtualization, smart orientation and openness will soon truly arrive. At present, SDN/NFV technology has entered the practical development phase, but it still suffer discrepant standards, immaturity of the plans for network upgrading, deficiency of operational maintenance, etc. In front of the various and cropping-up SDN/NFV scenario-based solutions, the third party neutral lab testing and certificating appear to be important.

The SDN/NFV solutions certificating program launched this time on the one hand satisfies the urgent need from the enterprises for testing, and on the other hand, provides reliable evidence from a third party to the procurement party. Through relevant testing, SDN/NFV application and industrialization in current networks have been accelerated and the capability and level of service for the network infrastructure have been improved.

At the 2017 Global SDNFV Conference, the SDNCTC issued the testing reports respectively for the H3C ADDC 2.0 Solution, the Ruijie DC-Cloud Solution and the VCMY SD-WAN Solution. On the basis of previously testing the functionality, usability and over ten other features, the features and capability for deployment of the test products have been successfully demonstrated.

Director of SDNCTC, Li Zhen says: “It is our consistent testing principle to stay neutral, just, strict and efficient. In the future, we will provide comprehensive testing and certificating service to more carriers and enterprises, build good platforms for testing and certificating and actively boost the customized solutions to better serve the need of the customers.

As a third party neutral SDN/NFV technology testing and innovating platform, the SDNCTC complies with the ISO/IEC17025 management system and passed the CNAS certification. It is dedicated to the research and development, testing and certificating and deployment and promotion of SDN/NFV technology. It provides service of neutral testing and certificating to the whole world.

The SDNCTC has accumulated a lot of experience through the cooperation with open source and standardization organizations, including ONF, ETSI, IETF and OPNFV over the years. In addition, the testing center holds annually plugfest to help users accelerate the product maturity. SDNCTC provides independent, objective and authoritative third party testing and consulting service to ICT users and vendors. The reports issued by the center has been widely recognized in the community of SDN/NFV, which can help enterprises make educated technical decision and enhance the confidence in sales.

For more information on SND/NFV certificating program, please visit the official website of the SDNCTC www.sdnctc.com.

ONOS Performance Test Report Issued by Global SDN Certified Testing Center

Software Defined Network (SDN), with its great advantage of isolating data plane from control plane, has become a focus in recent years, but more and more companies and operators find in practice that, the performance status of SDN control plane becomes a key constraining SDN commercial deployment and applications. Recently, BII - Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC, www.sdnctc.com/en), after releasing RYU Controller Performance Test Report, OpenDaylight Controller Performance Test Report, again released ONOS Controller Performance Test Report, it tested a number of performance indicators of the mainstream open source controller ONOS and the test results are subject to rendering visualization in the report.

This test is carried out specifically for ONOS (standalone mode and cluster mode) southbound OpenFlow performance, including control channel capacity test, topology discovery time test, PACKET OUT rate test, FLOW MOD sending rate test, end-to-end link establishment time test and role election time test. Standalone mode means to test one ONOS controller, while cluster mode means to test multiple ONOS controllers.

It is found during testing that, regarding the ONOS FLOW MOD sending rate test, the performance gap between standalone mode and cluster mode is very obvious; In addition, there will be obvious performance reduction when a large number of switches coupled with topology discovery time under complex network topology and end-to-end link establishment time, detailed test data can be found in the original report. With clear and detailed data and charts, the entire "ONOS Controller Performance Test Report" shows the complete test results in a scientific and comprehensive manner, providing reliable data support for SDN network performance assessment testing and commercial deployment for users.

Supported by OFsuite_Performance test tool, which is one of OFsuite series test tools independently developed by BII-SDNCTC and intended for performance test of OpenFlow controller. It can simulate different network topologies and all OpenFlow events and effectively balance the controller’s handling capacity of OpenFlow messages. This test automatically generates data graph and performance test report.

Up to now, BII - SDNCTC has completed testing of RYU, OpenDaylight, ONOS and other mainstream open source controllers and issued corresponding test reports, the director of SDNCTC Li Zhen said in an interview: "In the previous SDNFV Fest testing activity, we found that there are significant differences between performance test results of controllers provided by different vendors, the Global SDN Certified Testing Center has begun to provide performance testing services for commercial-grade controllers, to meet more customized testing requirements, assist applying enterprises to improve controller performance, break through technology bottlenecks, promote in-depth SDN commercial deployment. "

Please click http://www.sdnctc.com/public/download/ONOS_E.pdf for full report. Acquiring more SDN controller test reports, please visit www.sdnctc.com

Open IPv6 Test Environment, 6Plat Assist APP Submission to Apple Store

BII launched the IPv6 application experimental platform (6 Plat, website: 6plat.org). 6Plat can help mobile developers to build IPv6 App test environment, to solve the problem of the application version does not support the IPv6 network environment, which is free of charge for individual users.

Details: http://www.biigroup.com/news/s/?935.html

Liu Dong: Openness+ Open Source Will Stir a New Wave of SDNFV Innovation

In June 2016, Liu Dong, chair of the Global SDNFV Tech Conference, IEEE-SA BOD member and president & CEO of BII Group said in an interview that the emergence of SDN and network virtualization has ushered in a new era of infrastructure meaning service for the whole industry. The barriers of different datacenters are no longer tight and tough and network channels are more flexible, and that openness and open source standardization will surely lower the threshold of accession into the market, to galvanize a new wave of application service innovation.

Liu Dong IEEE-SA BOD member and President & CEO of BII addresses the 2016 Global SDNFV Tech Conference

On the potential development in the sector of SDNFV, Liu Dong says that over recent years, networks are becoming increasingly complex and larger, against which background, SDN/NFV will make networks run better. On one hand, it can reduce costs, and on the other, it can boost performance and security. Four years ago when SDN was first introduced at the first Global SDN tech conference, people were talking about what SDN was, what the other countries do, how we should be part of it……The second and third conferences had already seen many matured products from many vendors, and the important thing for the matured products is to keep the interoperability and consistency between the products. At that time we established a test and certificating lab: Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC) hosted a SDN PlugFest. Last year, we had Huwei, ZTE, H3C, etc. included in the ten devices that have passed testing and certificating. The products are not only sold in China, but beyond, with wide application. This year, the Conference had more than 1500 attendees, where SDNFV organizations and entities gathered to share their application cases. SDN and NFV entered critical phase of commercial deployment and the major carriers, cloud datacenters and Internet companies are now in the process of SDN and NFV analysis and deployment to provide better and more flexible service of high quality over lower cost.

On the innovation of SDNFV in China, Liu Dong said that network has no boundary with tech and standards hand in hand. Chinese enterprises should not rest comfortably on its independent innovation, but throw themselves into the world, engage themselves in various international organizations and guide the relevant tech trends. In modern networks, openness and open source have become the mainstream, engineers beyond count make contribution to their own fields without spotlight on them, but the vanguards will surely take the lead in each of their moves. In an organization like ONF, over ten Chinese enterprises actively take part in standardization, whose output tech and standards not only are applied at home but also well received across the world, which bellwethers the global development.

Future network is a definable network that can integrate software and hardware. No matter it is SDN or NFV, it is an important part of future network, which will no doubt ooze its glory in high speed broadband, 5G, IoT, etc. Liu Dong said in the end that conventional infrastructures are now on a fast track of revolutions. SDN/NFV will enter a golden era, and he hoped that those in the industry can share the same goal and devote concerted efforts to establish a more secure and more reliable future network with era-leading performance to benefit mankind.