Introduction of

NEC‘s Open Source Activities

November, 2014

NEC Corporation

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Agenda

▌ NEC Cloud IaaS Overview

▌ Okinawa Open Laboratory

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NEC Cloud IaaS Overview

▐ Two kinds of IaaS line-up cover enterprise system needs broadly.

▐ Customers can use hybrid cloud management functions via self-service portal.

Provisioning function （Resource provision and management）

Integrated operation management function

(Various cloud environments and individual systems can be managed together.)

Provisioning

NEC Cloud IaaS

(Standard: STD)

Customers

Individual systems

Integrated operationmanagement

NEC Cloud IaaS(High availability: HA)

Private cloud(On-premises) Self-service portal

Public cloud(AWS, etc.)

Housing service

One of NEC’s Activities for Open Innovation …

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Okinawa Open Laboratory (OOL)

Research Institute

Founded by NEC, NTT Communications and IIGA in May 2013

(http://www.okinawaopenlabs.org/, https://www.facebook.com/okinawaopenlabs/)

Located at Okinawa IT Shinryo Park

(OISP), Okinawa, Japan

(http://www.it-shinryo.org/)

Okinawa Island

Naha

1 hour drivefrom Naha Airport

OISP

Mission

Promote the practical

application and dissemination

of next-generation ICT platform

technologies, especially

Software-Defined Networking

(SDN)

Cloud Computing using Open

Source Software (OSS)

End-to-End Network

Control &Management

Software

NetworkInside DC

TransportNetwork

Access Network

Local Network/Intra-Network

VM VM

WPA IPSec

vCPE

Route server, etc.

SDN ctrl

HyperVisor

NFV ctrl OpenStack

NW Orchestration

VM VM

HyperVisor

Customer VM/IaaS

NW APLNW APL

Svc APL Svc APL Svc APL

API

End-to-end Virtualized Network

ユースケースUse Case

• Traffic Steering• Service Chaining

(1/2)

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Okinawa Open Laboratory (OOL)

Activities

Technology verification and information delivery

Development of use cases and reference models

Education and training of engineers

International conferences

International collaboration especially with Asian countries

Members

Invite Members from industries and academia, from inside Japan and

outside of Japan, especially from Asian countries

Work with Members to diversify, deepen and accelerate activities

Partners

Collaborate with organizations for ICT standardization and promotion

to proceed with activities and achieve goals

(2/2)

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Why Okinawa?

Geographical advantage as an international hub

Gateway to Asian countries

Suitable for international R&D activities with Asian countries

Okinawa Prefectural Government support

ICT industry promotion policies

Okinawa Smart Hub Concept

Okinawa IT Shinryo Park, etc.

Business environment

Submarine cables

Data centers

Human resources

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Activity Model: OOL

Connect OSS development communities and market via

use cases and reference models to expand user base of

OSS based ICT Infrastructure Value chain: Use Case Verification Ref. Model Promotion

PDCA cycles: OOL Market, OOL OSS Dev. Communities

OSS Development Communities

Develop

-ment

Use

CaseVerifica

-tionRef.

Model

Promo

-tion

Issues/

Needs

Application/

Use

Okinawa Open Laboratory

(OOL)

Market/Users

Testbed(OpenStack w/ SDN as a Service)

<Partners>

• Linux Foundation

• OpenStack Foundation

• Open Networking

Foundation

• Japan OpenStack User

Group

• SDN Japan Executive

Committee

...

<Members>

• Widely from

- Industries

- Academia

• From Worldwide

- Japan

- Asian Countries

...

User Base

Joint Activity with OOL Collaboration with OOL

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Activity Model: Members

Work with OOL to diversify, deepen and accelerate OOL

activities

Okinawa Open Laboratory

Members (Industries, Academia)

Market/Users

・Information Delivery

・Education/Training

・International Conference

Each Member’s Own Activity

(Business, Research, Education, etc.)

Activity Platform

・WG & PJ

・Testbed & Related Services

・Software/Tools

・Engineering Resources

Results

・Use Cases

・Reference Models

・Show Cases

・Education/Training Programs

Relationship

・OSS Development Communities

・Standardization Organization

・Okinawa Pref. Government

PJ PJ PJ・・・ Joint Activities with OOL

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Testbed

OF-Patch Service ChainingCoordinator

CreateHardwareTopology

SelectOrchestrator

DeployOpenStack

CreateServiceChain

Test

vyatta

Software-Defined DevOps Platform

Common platform for OOL and Members activities

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Education and Training

Develop engineers who can drive technology innovation

Two levels of approaches

Basic

Raise up the level of engineers

Develop engineers who understand both Cloud and SDN

Develop engineers who understand OSS

Programs

Seminars, Hands-on

Advance

Develop advanced engineers who can play an active role in OSS

communities

Programs

Code review, Hackathon, Program contest, International

exchange meeting

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Okinawa Open Days (OOD)

International Cloud (OpenStack) and SDN joint conference

and exhibition hosted by OOL under the auspices of

Okinawa Prefecture

OOD 2013 (Dec 12~13, 2013@Naha, Okinawa, Japan)

Day 1: OpenStack Day in Okinawa

Day 2: SDN Japan 2013 in Okinawa

BOF/Hackathon

Total Attendees: 500

Successfully Completed

OOD 2014 (Dec. 11~12, 2014@Naha, Okinawa, Japan)

Planned by OOD Executive Committee (Communities, Academia, OOL)

General Track: Speech and Discussion on OpenStack and SDN

Special Track: Hans-on, etc.

Expected Attendees: 500

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List of Members

Board

Member

(5)

NECNTT

CommunicationsIIGA

ITOCHU

Techno-SolutionsFujitsu

Member

(26)

Okinawa

Cross Head

NTT PC

Communicationse-side

NEC

Solution Innovator

IXIA

Communications

A10 Networks F5 Networks

Brocade

Communications

Systems

Hitachi HP

Global Broadband Alcatel-Lucent NTT ComwareHuawei

TechnologiesQuali Systems

Alaxala

Networks

BroadBand

TowerRadware NS Solutions Ciena

OCCMITSUI

Knowledge Industry

ADOC

International

Okinawa

Data CenterOKIT

NetOne Systems

Fellow

Member

(6)

University of

the Ryukyus

Department of

Information

Engineering

Kokusai Business

College

Mirai Technical

High School

Institute for

Information Industry

(Taiwan)

The University of

Tokyo

Interfaculty Initiative

in Information

Studies

Keio University

Faculty of Science

and Technology

37 Members in total as of Nov. 1, 2014

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