Considered the industry’s most influential and important event, MWC Barcelona attracts some of the most relevant decision-makers in the world.

TeraFlow was there at the CTTC booth, represented by our Project coordinator Ricard Vilalta, who could demonstrate the main concepts of the TeraFlow SDN controller to the interested audience through the demo TeraFlow: A scalable Cloud-Native SDN Controller for Transport Networks.

The main concepts illustrated were:

The 25th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2021) has been organised by the Chalmers University of Technology from the 28th of June to the 1st of July 2021. ONDM 2021 addresses cutting-edge research in established areas of optical networking and their adoption in support of a wide variety of new services and applications. TeraFlow is organising a 2-hour workshop with the tittle: “Micro-service based autonomic traffic control in 5G and beyond”.

The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit, builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), in its 30th edition of a series, supported by the European Commission; the 6G Summit, in its 3rd edition, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland.

This premier event in telecom and data center optics is considered the hub of the industry as it represents the entire ecosystem—from research to marketplace. The event had technical sessions and a virtual exhibition featuring industry focused programs and projects such as TeraFlow. Within the event, 4 papers and 2 demo papers of our project were accepted and presented.

TeraFlow project is developing a distributed Software-Defined Network (SDN) controller targeting a tera of managed flows in beyond 5G networks. In this tech talk, after an overview of what is Software Defined Networking, Traffic Engineering, and the protocols involved, Sébastien Merle & Peer Stritzinger introduced TeraFlow’s architecture and the concerns, constraints and challenges encountered. To finalise, they performed a live demo showing the progress so far and presented the open-source projects created or improved as part of the development.

As the last set of 5G PPP phase 3 projects have started, the new 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects brochure is available!

The third phase of the 5G Public-Private Partnership co-financed by the European Commission under the H2020 research and innovation programme fully reflects the European 5G policy based on a massive adoption of 5G network infrastructures by vertical industries. The full promise of 5G based on the implementation of the Standalone option to serve advanced use cases from vertical industries is still to fully materialise.