LANCSNET

Networking for Business and Service Provider

An advanced programmable technology serving many applications: Business – Switching; Routing, WAN Router, Security IDPS, Service Provider SP – Backhaul for 5G mobile, FTTH, IPTV; Fronthaul for 5G

LANCS Research areas for future technologies

Future network security

Future IoT

5G evolution and Wifi6

Hardware Engineering Overview

Hardware Engineering Team and Engineering Management Team gathered from multinational technology companies with more than 15 years of experiences for each member
Deep experiences in works and deliveries with Tier-1 telecom/datacom equipment companies on carrier-class hardware for telecom/data-center/enterprise networking equipment with high-reliability, high-availability in a form of low-footprint, low-power consumption
Experiences in networking PCB design and optimization.
Customer successes from business idea, hardware architecture, hardware development, testing, delivery, mass production, maintenance

Software Engineering Overview

Software Engineering Team and Engineering Management Team gathered from multinational technology companies with more than 15 years of experiences for each member
Deep experiences in works and deliveries with Tier-1 telecom/datacom equipment companies on carrier-class software for telecom/data-center/enterprise networking equipment with high-reliability, high-availability in a form of low-footprint, low-power consumption
Customer successes from business idea, software architecture, software development, software testing, delivery, mass production, maintenance
Experiences in Open Source community
Applied modern development process: CI/CD Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Experiences in Delivery and Capabilities

Native and Virtualization:

Linux OS, VxWork OS, kernel/user space, SDK, API in compliance with Telecom ITU-T based architecture, Micro-service architecture, Open networking architecture such as Linux Foundation, OCP
Processor architecture: x86, ARM, RISC
Software and OS on off-the-shelf hardware and custom hardware: from bring-up on to finished products
User Interface: Command Line Interface (CLI), Cisco/Cisco like-CLI, GUI, Telnet, SSH, FTP
Embedded software and Linux application, Native and Virtualization, Virtual Machine, QEMU, Docker
Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Functional Virtualization (NFV)

I/O

CPU-based processing or Hardware-based offload
Software Acceleration, Hardware Acceleration for compute, network and storage, Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK), VPP, VirtIO, Open Virtual Switch (OVS), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

Experiences in Delivery and Capabilities (cont’d)

Network

Networking, L2, L3, protocol stack and network operating systems (NOS): ONIE, FRRouting, Open Network Linux (ONL), Dell OpenSwitch (OPX), Microsoft Azure SONiC,
Software-based and hard-based real-time OAM processing
Software and Hardware IPSec/SSL/TLS encryption: Strongswan, OpenSSL
Open Infrastructure management: OpenStack
Network Automation: Ansible
Network Telemetry: Azure Microsoft

Security

VPN Software: OpenVPN
Software and Hardware IPSec/SSL/TLS encryption: Strongswan, OpenSSL
Network Gateway, Firewall, Load Balancer: NGINX, pfSense
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Data Security

Data Leak Prevention (DLP)

Web servers and Video streaming: NGINX

Software Engineering at Scale

Programming languages: C, C++, Python, TCL scripting
Development Environments: Linux compiler, Gitlab source code control and code review,
Modern development process: CI/CD Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery with Jenkins CI pipeline Continuous Integration
Document generation: Markdown
Cloud-based Project / Task management: Trello