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

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Future network security

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Future IoT

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5G evolution and Wifi6

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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