 Okay, so that time that we are starting the session about Japan and Canada and the consortium model does work I'm Takashi from Okinawa Open Laboratories and co-worked with NEC Corporation and Rich is CEO of Central WorkSense of Canada Central WorkSense of next-generation network In the session we are talking about how the consortium is worked in the many companies And the government supported the same direction, but there are some problems we are talking about the experience and lessons learned from our experience So firstly I define the problem statement In the session we talk about consortium models consortium with the aggregation of companies, government and academia and And usually they are competing in the field for instance our business or research etc When they started the consortium, they agreed with some common target Gathering the same consortium and working with together, but in nature they are competing in the Main field so they have been Arising the gap between them and each remembers in the consortium and created barriers And as a result in some cases consortium model cannot work well In this session I talked about two use cases the one from Japan and the one from Canada Talking about what we have done in the Problem and lessons learned The figure shows the models of open source community and open consortium The models are similar, but each model they are supported from the companies and Research Institute and the government But in fact there are many different point between the open source communities and open consortium The most important thing I think most important different point I think is each model's target is different Each model the companies are gathering to support and Support the consortium In the open source community for instance the open stack many companies are becoming the member of open stack foundations and paying member fee and contributing their employees to this developed open source for open stack and Supported this type of open stack summit meaning in this time this time over Seven over seven thousand people are gathering their sponsor Company have paid them big money for this event In the open source community their motivation the target contributing Of creating the ecosystem or a bigger and stronger around the open source for instance an open stack Then the in the open source community the most valuable person in there is a developer developer is the most high level high level of open source community and So for instance the open stack summit the activity technical contributor are given the free code and doesn't submit as they're very cared about the why high connectivity or Some electricity or coffee and snacks etc This target this target and the motivation are simple and the state forward And they are developing the software so called up through first So in the contrary the open consortium is there That are not so simple and straightforward In many cases they are targeting to There are companies targeting the R&D for business R&D is many aspect including the level test component level testing the product evaluation the system POC or probability, etc There are many types of works type type of works in the consortium there from government side there Motivation is an economic growth so From a government who helped and the funders of a consortium then the economic including recruiting their companies or startups or technology innovators and they are They are working together and creating the technology emerging technology and doing the business in the area that result economic growth so Now the in the current economic situation and the environment of IT system. It's difficult to Pay the money for a thing by a single company and the creating the emerging technology to the commercial so Many companies think about collaborating each other Collaborating the academia and the people and the creating the consortium is their motivations so From the academia, they are thinking about how to educate the people more more and more emerging technology and Also integrating with the industry to create the research more and more innovative So from this explained the open consortium is different from open source community in the aspect of target and the motivation And in the consortium model there are 10 years of consortium has each different goals Compared to the open source community So the consortium model is difficult to organize I think so from now the first the I we introduced use cases of Canada All right, so it's ironic to be talking about Open and inviting when we have locked doors for the presentation. Anyway, I want to my name is rich to zoom and I lead a consortium in Canada That is called send Janet stands for the center of excellence and next-generation networks Essentially, we're funded in part by the Canadian federal government To do and mainly a couple of things number one Is to help some of our small medium enterprise SMEs as we call them In terms of innovation so especially in the in terms of commercialization and then of course We're also trying to get to university and college students in Canada excited about these new megatrends that are happening and So we have a number of interns next week is a summer Internship at Senjian and we have over 16 students The technologies that we focus on are mainly in the SDN NFE and IOT gateway space And of course we are running a multi-vendor open source open environment What's unique I would say about this Particular partnership is that we actually have a real wide area and metro network So not just you know one data center, but also we have service providers who are members And that add to it We heard this morning about the people and process and of course, you know You can't forget about the platform as well, right? So we are actually running a dev ops operation. So all the things that all of our members and students would need to learn We our environment is running Moranches fuel as well as canonicals Ubuntu landscape as well as joyed if you were familiar with that product We have over five million dollars worth of hardware and software that a lot of the small companies just can't afford And most of that equipment and services are provided by our members. So some of these are Large companies who you would recognize others are smaller Canadian companies and then of course We also have three of the four largest service providers in Canada, which are tell us Rogers and all stream This is a list of all of our partners that we have a lot of them are on the Software side and the hardware side and test areas The companies on the bottom are companies that we've actually had a significant proof of concept with and On the on the green. I don't know if you can see that or not This is actually some of the funding that these small companies actually were able to achieve now I can't claim success on it all but certainly is at least one company Where we had a hundred percent direct impact on whether or not they receive VC funding Canada of course geographically is a very large country made up of many government and academia universities and colleges and various government labs and Basically what we're trying to do is you gather Anyone that's actually interested in collaborating in an open way. So basically we're inviting any of those groups To participate with us That we have of course affiliations with all of these organizations and we're members of all them in Terms of some of the services. So we have You know kind of what I'll call the charity part of the business Which is what the government funding basically the students and the small Canadian companies right helping them commercialized But that doesn't pay all the bills. So we are not for profit These are some of the things that we offer basically as services. So we are based in Canada, but of course We do business Globally so things like proof-of-concept validation testing services We're also certified ONF Training partners and we're also doing the certification exams as well And of course consulting This is what our environment looks like so We we have about Six clouds five of them are doing proof-of-concept projects. That's based on the canonical landscape environment we also have our Production infrastructure which are using Mirantis fuel and of course being run with open stack And then as I mentioned before we have very interesting connectivity. So we have multi gigabit to the internet and Several hundred gigabit into the academia world. So for example, if we want to do a collaboration with the university in Japan Obviously, we would connect through the canary infrastructure, which is the the national backbone for Canada now in terms of our Growth plans for this year. This is the city of Ottawa. So Ottawa is the not familiar is the the capital of Canada It's based in Ontario right on the border of Ontario and Quebec This is the three locations that we're going to be Moving into so we're at the the bottom left And we'll be moving into the other two sites by the end of this calendar year With very high speed connectivity. So a hundred gig between all three sites We do plan on expanding across the province. So we are looking at getting provincial support and So this would basically extend the cloud environment that we're running in the Ottawa region and then down into Toronto Waterloo and that would be one of the largest pockets of this type of work that's being done within within Ontario and then of course we would like to extend it across the country so much like What canary is for the academia world this network would be built for small Canadian companies to test out their solutions On a real live infrastructure. That's SDN controlled. Okay, so we think it's a major differentiator for the Canadian small companies and Obviously, it would also be available for hire as well in terms of the if you're Familiar with a group called the OP NFV the open platform network function virtualization group where we are the first associate members Sanjan This is a worldwide integration lab and we are putting in a pharaoh slab hopefully by the end of this month and That would be about the 10th of the 11th lab Around the globe. One of our partners is Contron who makes a little nice Two rack unit system and this is our first pod. So basically what we're going to be doing is we're going to be running Open daylight open stack all the different scenarios and tests that we believe are relevant to our members our partners And then basically test it across all the different hardware and software And then spit out results basically And so if we have time left over we're going to make that lab available to the outside community in terms of projects so These are a couple of examples of some projects that we're doing this calendar year So the first one involves a small Canadian company called Nova flow They're based in Montreal and tell us who's the second largest service provider in Canada and essentially what they're doing is they're using open source effectively white box switches which are connected through with Quagga and then running a BGP session with a virtual MX from Juniper So two of them and so the scenario that that this would be is For example, if you wanted to have a pairing arrangement and let's say you want to do it at say lower cost Or some of the traditional routers and switches The smart city infrastructure or smart city services this is our poster child for the proof of concept that we're going to be doing this year So the lead company on this one is Juniper and the the small Canadian company that's We're working with is called in a side and so they're very active in the open daylight community So if you know ODL, I think the in a side is a third largest contributor after brocade and Cisco This environment basically is going to be the concept is open fiber Open hardware open software for a smart city. Okay, so think about that So, you know the the fiber is owned. Let's say by the city as opposed to a service provider You're using white box switches, which can be easily, you know Changed out if you want to move from gigabit to 10 gigabit and so on and then of course the only scalable Multi-vendor open environment of course open stack and that's so be a big part of this So very exciting and we're gonna be showcasing this in Germany at the opnfv summit in Berlin at the end of June In terms of collaboration, so this is a Canada and Japan So, you know clearly We've done a lot of work at the groups are are similar. There are some differences between the two We we're aware of other organizations in France and and other places that have this type of thing But specifically what we're looking at with the Okinawa team is is doing some joint proof of concepts And then maybe some intern student intern You know basically have in Japanese students come to Canada and vice versa and you know basically To collaborate on these you know very exciting open source projects Okay, so thanks very much Sorry Okay, so I introduced about the Okinawa open laboratories And the place of Okinawa open laboratory is Okinawa prefecture the South island of Japan and have such a different culture compared to the mainland Japan We are supported from Okinawa government and Okinawa government have this established a vision of IT called Okinawa smart hub There because of the God's Geographic placement Okinawa is more near to Asian countries such as Taiwan and if the sky is clear The Okinawa and Taiwan also see the each other According to the vision the Okinawa prefecture government have been doing several same activities in these years such as constructing Debt-centred Okinawa and then the connecting the overseas fiber cable or recruiting the application companies to the Okinawa Okinawa prefecture One of the activities is our laboratory I will introduce in the session our relationship with Okinawa smart hub vision is Our Okinawa open laboratory is contributing to realizing the Okinawa smart hub concept our role is Tracting the leading companies and organizations or educational institutions or research institutions and from inside Japan and also from Asia and gathering the Okinawa and collaborating with each other and creating the active technologies and the Corporate ways the community such as ONF or OpenStack or INAX foundations or open on the right, etc and that our mission is R&D for more than practical applications platform infrastructure in the area of SDN and cloud computing and using the open source software Especially for we are using the open stack and key points are we are More and more focused on open innovations and collaboration joint work with each Computing companies and bridge in the gap between the users and the providers the figure shows our activity model and We are sitting in the middle of a market and the OSS board is that the developing communities or providers or system integrated the technology provider side We are purposely the bridge in the gap between market and Technology providers and so we are describing the use cases and the belfry the technologies creating the POC and the reference design and Promoting the result and so These activities are based on our test beta. We are developing in these three years we have for 40 servers and the many type of switches in our test bed The model is more similar with the OPNF we are a product working group in the open stack foundations There's a current membership member is over 40 members are And there is include and telecom carrier user System provider integrator startup, etc. Large portion of our member is from Japan Butter in you are promoting in Asia. So our member are from Taiwan, Korea, China or Malaysia, etc and also There are several companies from Okinawa local local local companies local emergency organization, etc that we are Communities of more diversity and that that is collaborating with each other I introduced several Project result we have you have been doing in the three years The first is the development project example for patches that are patch panel open-flow application the implemented open-flow controller that Ryu is an entity guys are developed and the prop Providing by the open source so user can control in the networking top network topology from our Developing GUI and the create creating the network topology For example the host one and the host two are connected to be at these switches. So or this networking topology user can Design from the remote by the digital GUI and the open source control and open source which is Inserting the flow open-flow to the by using the open-flow to the switches and Disable networking topologies are created and that that's Technology is already used in our test bed and the user our user test with user can control in the they are They're using their project by designing the network topology moral of flexibility That is a POC example. We are doing the in 2014 in Tokyo or demonstrating the top inter procure that is automated scale control We have constructed the March region environment of open stacked and Tokyo and Okinawa and the US and We are demonstrated Auto-scale control monitoring the networking network monitoring and the server load and Controlling the auto-scale Automatically According to the network networking fine networking networking user bandwidth this is Our first POC you do indeed in the open laboratories This example is a joint project with Taiwan and tripurize some research Institute We are collaborating with toy pride and creating the service function changing use cases There we are building the March region in the Okinawa and Taiwan that creating the open stack environment and We are developing the March region service function changing controller and the user can create a change by the GUI and Automatically the BNF but network functions that are in instances are loaded in the according to the configuration And creating the networks function service function changing and also same as our Sanjun we are We have just joined in the opnb as our associate members and also we have just Creating the environment of opnb test lab first test lab and just Just now we are creating the port number one for using the fuel We are planning to create in the pot number two by the RDO You have one jump server and Pot number one is a five physical servers that are three controller and the two compute node Are we are planning now to over this environment the port in our BNF test automations system that are we have done last year or More service function changing POC or joint POC with Oversea members such as Sanjun or some other other members in India in Asia So that is our project formations that we have been doing In our lab there are several number several number of full-time engineers that they have skills of open stack and Construct of sake of sake environment operator for sake moment and also networking skills that are such as SDN and open flow The center of the project and the most important portion is the organizer We think the organizer is a key over this project. They are sitting between the full-time engineers and Corporate company and the research into the academia who joined the project The organization task is very important and difficult I think the first is they create the plan of project and the setting the goal of a project and second second decaliting the members Company is interested in that project and the create formation over the project in part of organizer have to communicate with a board member or our lab or Staffs and also communicate with stakeholders such as the government so and after starting the project the organizer manager each members activities and to follow the How they are processing to all the goals and In addition Promotion is important task for organizer. They are Going to the next project or next action or project and also seek the next collaboration project for not only the members current members But also the recruiting the new members from the outside or from a geo from global or from open-stack ecosystem But in these three years of our lab history that we have faced with the many mismatches from member companies We also some Fragmently said about our members that could you Buy our product or could you demonstrate and promote our product could you use our product in your POC? Or could you introduce potentially our customers? We think that the background of this mismatches is they think that it's consortium is as a marketing perspective We think that is very strict for thinking of marketing people and we don't think that is long but From our vision our consortium vision is open innovation Open innovation so all we request to this there's members to align these marketing Purpose to the more open innovation activities So that is very important for this type of consortium There are final slide we summarize the session and We had the lesson learned from our experience The first is find the open mind people inside companies The human resource is important in this type of consortium To success the consortium. It's important to find the more I find the people more open that in many cases Frontside people is not so open that we have to find open mind people inside of companies For the for the purpose we have just started the forum to recruiting the more open open mind open mind people inside the companies or members and Education is a big part of this type of consortium They're looking up on level diesel and the extension they're also doing this education program We think the current IT and network system is becoming more and more software defined and Possible to control and managed by the code So that is called infrastructure as a code. We think that So we have the Informal consortium they're educating the people more a full stack is more very important thing and I also introduce the organizer is the key point of the hour console this type of consortium The culture of the project is defined by the organizers. So that is very important to Decider who is the organizers and hired organizers our forum members the business is a final goal of their business From a company members and so we have to keep the balance for each member's business If we are that we are Focusing on several type of limited companies perspective many companies business other members can maybe feel that unfair for the consortium and that that is a If that if that the station look at the open innovation is not achieved Finally the consortium is difficult to organize and the but so keep our vision and the identity of the very important and provide the value based on the vision and active identities are Very important thing than the keep keep it keep it is very Important to success in the consortium So, thank you for your time and that does it end of a session if you have a question or comment Five minutes. Do you mind? There's a few microphones. I think that But please speak out of Michael Sorry, there's one right on each aisle Just the recording the session. Okay. Hello Xavier premium. I'm coming from the IRT become it's a Kind of research center with private members and with state members in France We are working on the same areas as you I will discuss with you maybe for collaborations later on but my question is how do you manage between big members? small members and IPR so the Big members we have orange for example in our Research center and we have SMEs and when we make a project, of course Yeah, there's a difference of contribution and also of returns from projects and the the next question or the Associated question is how do you manage IPR if you develop? Patents or whatever So maybe I can take for Canada first. Okay, so for a sentence What we do is we have that exact same situation where we have very large members And a lot of them are even multinationals as well And then of course we have you know from a three-person SME all the way through to several hundred so we have that exact situation the default for us is that the Intellectual property Stays with the SME Typically, it's their innovation that has got the member interested in doing this commercialization or this proof of concept That being said it is that is the starting position and then anything can be negotiated after that so You know if the if something was created as a result of this very large company and the small company It would have been predetermined ahead of time. So you don't get into any legal issues that the one thing that I'm very concerned about is you know large companies have a lot of lawyers and have a lot of deep pockets and I believe it, you know, it's our role as a not-for-profit in Canada to protect the smaller companies So even though there are members we had some pre-established rules kind of right from the start So we wouldn't run into that situation because well as you know, I mean, you know anytime any lawyers get involved in anything It gets very complex and very expensive very quickly and something that small companies just couldn't afford And in Japan, I don't know There are very different difficult point for managing the organizations We are caring about the small companies are more and more but the the baseline of our Guidelines criteria for the project or activities are based on the technologies are important so or you have to care the small companies and better That is so We really think that technology is first and From the IPR and the split of IPR we are Creating Technologies but that we Promise with each company that that is license-free for Output of our development or our research activities that are going to open with some maybe current your outputs through licenses Okay, so neither your organization or your organization is honing the IPR none of them in the case of We actually send in ourselves. We chose One project last year and we're probably gonna take two or three this year so in the case it will hold the same position as Our large multinational or our very large members and that is that the IP would stay with the The SME but then anything that we did jointly would be shared Thank you Okay, any other questions comments All right. Well, thank you very much really appreciate it and You know, it's always tough being before lunch and within a locked auditorium, but I really appreciate you guys hanging around All right. Thank you. Thank you