“I have worked with Joan Antoni for many years, actually, i hired him in i2CAT. The most important aspect is that he is a person you can trust in. He worked in my team for more than 8 years. He was a very good skilled engineer/researcher with a great understanding of the technologies and the research challenges facing the projects. At the same time, he was very professional on his activities aiming at delivering as accurate results as possible, with very good management skills to the people too (from in and outside the company), and ovbiously, a hard worker, which applied to all the members of the team. Actually, he was one of the key people that helped to build the success story of the DANA team. I would definitely rely on him again to undertake new challenges ”
Joan Espin Garcia
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Senior IT and telecoms professional with over 15 years of international experience…
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School of Professional and Executive Development - UPC BarcelonaTECH
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The Executive MBI has as main objective to provide tools to professionals in order to manage the growth of the company based on innovation and entrepreneurial capacity. The program focuses on creating greater value for the customer, using, for example, a tool such as Open Innovation.
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Trainer: Xavier Quesada Allue
Certified Scrum Product Owner® professionals have been taught the Scrum terminology, practices, and principles that enable them to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. CSPOs are typically the individuals who are closest to the "business side" of the project. They are charged by the organization to "get the product out" and are expected to do the best possible job of satisfying all the stakeholders. CSPOs maintain the product backlog and ensure…Trainer: Xavier Quesada Allue
Certified Scrum Product Owner® professionals have been taught the Scrum terminology, practices, and principles that enable them to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. CSPOs are typically the individuals who are closest to the "business side" of the project. They are charged by the organization to "get the product out" and are expected to do the best possible job of satisfying all the stakeholders. CSPOs maintain the product backlog and ensure that everyone knows the priorities. -
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ITIL Foundation training in the UK as part of a skills development program of DANTE's Network Operations Centre team.
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Activities and Societies: Wide Area Networks Group (Grup de Xarxes de Banda Ampla, BAMPLA)
Specialised in IP/MPLS traffic management, DiffServ and Network Virtualisation
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Activities and Societies: Wide Area Networks Group (Grup de Xarxes de Banda Ampla, BAMPLA)
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University Student Mentor
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the University of Bristol
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Science and Technology
I am mentoring 3rd-year students as advisor to their company board. This is part of the Transdisciplinary Group Project "Doing Something Completely New" where students investigate the market fit of their product.
Publications
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A multi-tenancy model based on resource capabilities and ownership for infrastructure management (Conference paper)
IEEE 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualisation has brought a revolution within the telecom market landscape. Initial proof-of-concept prototypes for NFV-enabled solutions are being developed at the same time SDN models are identified as the futures solutions within the telecom realm. We provide in this article an overview of the SDN/NFV technologies over optical networks, as well as we provide the first formalisation model for the virtual network function complex scheduling…
Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualisation has brought a revolution within the telecom market landscape. Initial proof-of-concept prototypes for NFV-enabled solutions are being developed at the same time SDN models are identified as the futures solutions within the telecom realm. We provide in this article an overview of the SDN/NFV technologies over optical networks, as well as we provide the first formalisation model for the virtual network function complex scheduling problem. The article aims at being used as starting point in order to optimally solve the scheduling problem of virtual network functions that compose network services to be provisioned within the SDN paradigm.
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Network Service Interface – Gateway for future network services (Conference paper)
Terena Networking Conference 2012
The NSI main objective is to provide a unified communication method enabling independent single domain resource management tools to collaborate at global scale providing multi-domain services in heterogeneous environments.
The NSI research was driven by specialists experienced in dynamic provisioning system and resources allocation. The protocol design was a result of long discussions and evaluations of proposed architectures and ideas.Other authors -
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Logical Infrastructure Composition Layer, the GEYSERS Holistic Approach for Infrastructure Virtualisation (Conference paper)
Terena Networking Conference 2012
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Enabling future internet research: the FEDERICA case (Journal paper)
IEEE Communications Magazine (Vol. 47 Issue 7)
The Internet, undoubtedly, is the most influential technical invention of the 20th century that affects and constantly changes all aspects of our day-to-day lives nowadays. Although it is hard to predict its long-term consequences, the potential future of the Internet definitely relies on future Internet research. Prior to every development and deployment project, an extensive and comprehensive research study must be performed in order to design, model, analyze, and evaluate all impacts of the…
The Internet, undoubtedly, is the most influential technical invention of the 20th century that affects and constantly changes all aspects of our day-to-day lives nowadays. Although it is hard to predict its long-term consequences, the potential future of the Internet definitely relies on future Internet research. Prior to every development and deployment project, an extensive and comprehensive research study must be performed in order to design, model, analyze, and evaluate all impacts of the new initiative on the existing environment. Taking the ever-growing size of the Internet and the increasing complexity of novel Internet-based applications and services into account, the evaluation and validation of new ideas cannot be effectively carried out over local test beds and small experimental networks. The gap which exists between the small-scale pilots in academic and research test beds and the realsize validations and actual deployments in production networks can be bridged by using virtual infrastructures. FEDERICA is one of the facilities, based on virtualization capabilities in both network and computing resources, which creates custom-made virtual environments and makes them available for Future Internet Researchers. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research projects that have been using the virtual infrastructure slices of FEDERICA in order to validate their research concepts, even when they are disruptive to the test bed??s infrastructure, to obtain results in realistic network environments.
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Energy Efficiency in integrated IT and Optical Network Infrastructures: The GEYSERS approach (Conference paper)
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
In this paper we propose energy efficient design and operation of infrastructures incorporating integrated optical network and IT resources. For the first time we quantify significant energy savings of a complete solution jointly optimizing the allocation and provisioning of both network and IT resources. Our approach involves virtualization of the infrastructure resources and it is proposed and developed in the framework of the European project GEYSERS - Generalised Architecture for Dynamic…
In this paper we propose energy efficient design and operation of infrastructures incorporating integrated optical network and IT resources. For the first time we quantify significant energy savings of a complete solution jointly optimizing the allocation and provisioning of both network and IT resources. Our approach involves virtualization of the infrastructure resources and it is proposed and developed in the framework of the European project GEYSERS - Generalised Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services.
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Energy Efficiency in integrated IT and Optical Nework Infrastructures: the GEYSERS Approach (Conference paper)
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2011 IEEE Conference on; 10-15 April 2011, pp. 343 - 348, 978-1-4577-0249- 5, 10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928835
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Security Services Lifecycle Management in On-demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning (Conference paper)
IEEE Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010)
Modern e-Science and high technology industry require high-performance and complicated network and computer infrastructure to support distributed collaborating groups of researchers and applications that should be provisioned on-demand. The effective use and management of the dynamically provisioned services can be achieved by using the Service Delivery Framework (SDF) proposed by TeleManagement Forum that provides a good basis for defining the whole services life cycle management and…
Modern e-Science and high technology industry require high-performance and complicated network and computer infrastructure to support distributed collaborating groups of researchers and applications that should be provisioned on-demand. The effective use and management of the dynamically provisioned services can be achieved by using the Service Delivery Framework (SDF) proposed by TeleManagement Forum that provides a good basis for defining the whole services life cycle management and supporting infrastructure services. The paper discusses conceptual issues, basic requirements and practical suggestions for provisioning consistent security services as a part of the general e-Science infrastructure provisioning, in particular Grid and Cloud based. The proposed Security Services Lifecycle Management (SSLM) model extends the existing frameworks with additional stages such as “Reservation Session Binding” and “Registration and Synchronisation” that specifically target such security issues as the provisioned resources restoration, upgrade or migration and provide a mechanism for remote executing environment and data protection by binding them to the session context. The paper provides a short overview of the existing standards and technologies and refers to the on-going projects and experience in developing dynamic distributed security services.
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An Analytical Model of the Service Provisioning Time within the Harmony Network Service Plane (Conference paper)
IEEE Globecom Workshops (2010)
Grid computing aims at offering standardized access to heterogeneous and distributed resources for scientific communities. However, in order to support emerging next generation Grid applications with specific Quality of Service requirements, the interconnecting networks have also been considered as first-class allocable Grid resources and have been also taken into account for the co-scheduling process. In the last few years, a number of network resource provisioning systems were developed…
Grid computing aims at offering standardized access to heterogeneous and distributed resources for scientific communities. However, in order to support emerging next generation Grid applications with specific Quality of Service requirements, the interconnecting networks have also been considered as first-class allocable Grid resources and have been also taken into account for the co-scheduling process. In the last few years, a number of network resource provisioning systems were developed, however, without providing specific analysis on the scalability of potential architectural design alternatives. Our approach is to formulate a fundamental analytical model to evaluate the expected service provisioning time using different architectures as a function of the involved transport domains. To validate our results, we have used measurements obtained from the European IST-FP6 Phosphorus project testbed. The main contribution is to provide an instrument to obtain reference values to support architectural design decisions even in an early stage of the development phase.
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GFD.173 - Network Services Framework v1.0 (Standard)
Open Grid Forum (Network Service Interface Working Group)
Version 1.0 of the Network Services Framework describes a framework to support the request
and management of Network Services; it allows an application or network provider to request
Network Services from other network providers. The framework covers the interface, protocols,
agents and associated services. The Network Service Interface (NSI) is the interface between
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Generalized Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services (Conference paper)
IEEE 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2010)
GEYSERS partitions the physical infrastructure to create specific virtual infrastructures, each one controlled by an enhanced Network Control Plane capable of provisioning Optical Network Services bundled with IT resources in an on demand basis, and oriented to cloud computing applications.
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Squat-Based resource management strategy for enabling shared infrastructures over optical networks
IEEE 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2010)
This paper proposes a new paradigm and strategy for resource management in optical networks considering that resources allocated to a user or service can be squatted in by third parties temporarily in order to provide support for emergency situations or allocate traffic from different priorities that experience a sudden increase of demanded resources in the network. We introduce the strategies of Soft Squatting and Hard Squatting. Moreover, we propose a model and a preliminary evaluation for…
This paper proposes a new paradigm and strategy for resource management in optical networks considering that resources allocated to a user or service can be squatted in by third parties temporarily in order to provide support for emergency situations or allocate traffic from different priorities that experience a sudden increase of demanded resources in the network. We introduce the strategies of Soft Squatting and Hard Squatting. Moreover, we propose a model and a preliminary evaluation for fibre infrastructure sharing in all-optical networks using the proposed squatting strategies.
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Scalability Analysis and Evaluation of the Multi-domain, Optical Network Service Plane in Harmony (Conference paper)
IEEE 35th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2009)
Performance study of successful responses to incremental and poison requests for the Harmony system, a multi-domain distributed optical network service plane capable of providing end-to-end advance provisioning services by means of a resource brokering system.
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Performance Analysis of Harmony, an Optical, Multi-domain Network Resource Broker (Conference paper)
IEEE 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON'09)
Harmony is a network resource brokering system that provides co-allocation of heterogeneous (optical) network resources in multi-domain and multi-technology environments with advance reservation functionalities. This system is one of the outcomes of the Phosphorus EC FP6 research project. The Harmony system architecture has evolved from a first proof-of-concept, centralized network service plane (NSP) to a distributed NSP model; passing through a mid-term, multi-level hierarchical model. This…
Harmony is a network resource brokering system that provides co-allocation of heterogeneous (optical) network resources in multi-domain and multi-technology environments with advance reservation functionalities. This system is one of the outcomes of the Phosphorus EC FP6 research project. The Harmony system architecture has evolved from a first proof-of-concept, centralized network service plane (NSP) to a distributed NSP model; passing through a mid-term, multi-level hierarchical model. This paper addresses key performance and scalability topics of the Harmony system, analyzing its functional architecture under different scenarios, and given different request distribution patterns. The study analyzes and evaluates whether the system can scale to scenarios that accept more requests per second or control more administrative domains. Thus, analysis results are discussed in order to determine why the distributed architecture with flexible, in time and bandwidth, advance reservation functionalities has better performance, scalability and convergence when increasing the service plane entities and their relationships.
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Harmony - Advance Reservations in Heterogeneous Multi-domain Environments (Conference paper)
Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5550, 2009. 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING 2009)
Grid computing aims at offering standardized access to heterogeneous and distributed resources for scientific communities. In order to ensure certain quality of service requirements, the interconnecting networks have also be considered as Grid resources and must be taken into account for the co-scheduling process. However, most current systems do not support co-allocation of heterogeneous network resource provisioning systems and malleable advance reservations in multi-domain, multi-technology,…
Grid computing aims at offering standardized access to heterogeneous and distributed resources for scientific communities. In order to ensure certain quality of service requirements, the interconnecting networks have also be considered as Grid resources and must be taken into account for the co-scheduling process. However, most current systems do not support co-allocation of heterogeneous network resource provisioning systems and malleable advance reservations in multi-domain, multi-technology, and multi-vendor environments. Our approach, called Harmony, provides a functional service plane to unify the underlying network management systems and supports advanced reservation capabilities to utilize the available capacity and network resources in an efficient manner. The developed prototype has been demonstrated on numerous conferences and a preliminary performance evaluation of the current implementation is given.
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Patents
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System and Method for Monitoring and optimizing Traffic in MPLS-DiffServ Networks
Filed EU EP2110992A1
Projects
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5G ENCODE (UK)
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The 5G-ENCODE Project, is a £9 million collaborative project aiming to develop clear business cases and value propositions for 5G applications in manufacturing industry. The project is partially funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the UK Government as part of their 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. The project is one of the UK Government’s biggest investment in 5G for manufacturing to date. Other consortia partners include the National Composites Centre (NCC)…
The 5G-ENCODE Project, is a £9 million collaborative project aiming to develop clear business cases and value propositions for 5G applications in manufacturing industry. The project is partially funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the UK Government as part of their 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. The project is one of the UK Government’s biggest investment in 5G for manufacturing to date. Other consortia partners include the National Composites Centre (NCC), Telefonica, Siemens, Toshiba, Solvay, Plataine, Mativision, and the University of Bristol while the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) provides additional support through their DETI Programme.
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BigClouT (EU H2020)
My role in the project: Research engineer (experiment design, infrastructure design and operational guidelines), stakeholder engagement
Big data meeting Cloud and IoT for empowering the citizen clout in smart cities
The world is facing a number of critical challenges such as global warming, economic crisis, security threats, inequality, natural disasters and ageing society. ICT solutions have the potential to change the world and improve the quality of life and security of its…My role in the project: Research engineer (experiment design, infrastructure design and operational guidelines), stakeholder engagement
Big data meeting Cloud and IoT for empowering the citizen clout in smart cities
The world is facing a number of critical challenges such as global warming, economic crisis, security threats, inequality, natural disasters and ageing society. ICT solutions have the potential to change the world and improve the quality of life and security of its citizens.
BigClouT project will in particular make use of today’s three key technologic enablers, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and big data, for the objective of increasing the efficiency in using urban infrastructure, economic and natural resources shared by the increasing population.
BigClouT will offer an analytic mind to the city by creating distributed intelligence that can be implanted throughout the whole city network either for large or smaller urban areas.
BigClouT will leverage the results of the EU-Japan ClouT project and will bring them beyond, by adding for instance distributed intelligence with edge computing principles, big data analytics capability, in addition to self-awareness and dependability properties towards a programmable smart city platform.
Resources and knowledge from prestigious European and Japanese institutions are now together to keep on creating a long-lasting synergy between EU and Japan for tackling future city challenges.Other creators -
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REPLICATE (EU H2020)
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My role in the project: Led the team at Zeetta contributing to the Bristol pilot and manage stakeholders and delivery. We delivered a PoC for automated, scaleable IoT provisioning using SDN for Local Authorities rolling out Smart City projects. I also migrated the PoC to a pre-commercial proposition leveraging on our NetOS Rapide product.
REPLICATE: Renaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and Technology
The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in…My role in the project: Led the team at Zeetta contributing to the Bristol pilot and manage stakeholders and delivery. We delivered a PoC for automated, scaleable IoT provisioning using SDN for Local Authorities rolling out Smart City projects. I also migrated the PoC to a pre-commercial proposition leveraging on our NetOS Rapide product.
REPLICATE: Renaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and Technology
The objective of REPLICATE is to demonstrate Smart City technologies in energy, transport and ICT in districts in San Sebastian, Florence and Bristol addressing urban complexity and generate replication plans in other districts and in follower cities of Essen, Nilufer and Lausanne.
Main challenges for cities are to increase the overall energy efficiency, to exploit better local resources in terms of energy supply and demand side measures. For successful implementation of Smart City technologies two main elements are considered:
- Cities are the customer.
- Solutions must be replicable, interoperable and scalable.
The 3 pillars implemented in the pilots with the engagement of citizens, private actors and authorities are:
- Integrated Infrastructure: deployment of ICT architecture, from internet of things to applications, to integrate the solutions in different areas.
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COSIGN (EU FP7)
My role in the project: Research engineer (SDN, network virtualisation)
Advanced Optical Hardware and SDN for Next-Generation Data Centres
The role of Data Centres (DCs) is vital for the Future Internet. However, DC infrastructures are already stressed by data volumes and service provisioning and consumption trends. Emerging demands cannot be addressed by today's DCs and call for a massive redesign or even transformation of DC architectures.COSIGN proposes a new DC architecture…My role in the project: Research engineer (SDN, network virtualisation)
Advanced Optical Hardware and SDN for Next-Generation Data Centres
The role of Data Centres (DCs) is vital for the Future Internet. However, DC infrastructures are already stressed by data volumes and service provisioning and consumption trends. Emerging demands cannot be addressed by today's DCs and call for a massive redesign or even transformation of DC architectures.COSIGN proposes a new DC architecture empowered by advanced optical technologies and will demonstrate novel solutions capable of sustaining the growing resource and operational demands of next generation DC Networks. COSIGN aims to move away from today's vendor specific, manually controlled, performance and scale limited DCs towards scalable DC solutions able to support future-proof dynamic, on-demand, low-latency, energy efficient and ultra-high bandwidth DC solutions. COSIGN introduces disruptive transformations in the data plane, significant advances to the control plane and major innovations in the DC virtualization and service orchestration:
• In the DC Data Plane, COSIGN will deliver an entirely-optical solution enabling scalable top-of-rack switches, ultra-low latency and high volume DC interconnects with high spatial dimensioning.
• In the DC Control Plane, COSIGN will build upon and extend the Software Defined Networks (SDN) paradigm leveraging capabilities from high-performance optical technologies while developing technology agnostic protocols for software/user defined routing and control.
• For the DC Management and Orchestration, COSIGN will implement a coherent framework
for optical network and IT infrastructure abstraction, virtualization and end-to-end service orchestration.COSIGN brings together a unique combination of skills and expertise able to deliver, for the first time, a coordinated hardware and software architecture, which will guarantee the scale and performance required for future DCs.Other creators -
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5G PICTURE (EU H2020)
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My role in the project: Project management and demonstration delivery. Stakeholder engagement.
5G PICTURE: 5G Programmable Infrastructure Converging Disaggregated Network and Compute Resources
5G-PICTURE will develop a converged fronthaul and backhaul infrastructure integrating advanced wireless and novel optical network solutions. Τo address the limitations of the current D-RAN and C-RAN approaches, 5G-PICTURE will exploit flexible functional splits that can be dynamically…My role in the project: Project management and demonstration delivery. Stakeholder engagement.
5G PICTURE: 5G Programmable Infrastructure Converging Disaggregated Network and Compute Resources
5G-PICTURE will develop a converged fronthaul and backhaul infrastructure integrating advanced wireless and novel optical network solutions. Τo address the limitations of the current D-RAN and C-RAN approaches, 5G-PICTURE will exploit flexible functional splits that can be dynamically selected to optimise resource and energy efficiency.
This results in a paradigm shift, from RAN and C-RAN to Dis-Aggregated RAN (DA-RAN). DA-RAN is a novel concept where HW and SW components are disaggregated across the wireless, optical and compute/storage domains. ʽResource disaggregationʼ allows decoupling these components, creating a common pool of resources that can be independently selected and allocated on demand to compose any infrastructure service. Key enablers for DA-RAN are 1) network ʽsoftwarizationʼ, migrating from the conventional closed networking model to an open reference platform, supported through 2) HW programmability, where HW is configured directly by network functions, to provide the required performance. This will enable provisioning of any service by flexibly mixing-and-matching network, compute and storage resources without sacrificing performance and efficiency as is the case in today’s NFV-based solutions. To validate these capabilities, 5G-PICTURE will demonstrate converged fronthaul and backhaul services in: a) a smart city environment, b) a 5G railway experimental testbed showcasing seamless service provisioning and mobility management in high-speed moving environments and c) a stadium with ultra-high user density, supporting media services.Other creators -
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5G Smart Tourism (UK)
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See projectMy role in the project: Overall program management and 5G solution design and demonstration (SDN+slicing). Member of the executive project board.
This 5G testbed project focussed on delivering enhanced visual experiences for tourists using Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technology in major attractions in Bath and Bristol, including the Roman Baths and Millennium Square. Content and technology developments were provided by the BBC and Aardman with support from the…My role in the project: Overall program management and 5G solution design and demonstration (SDN+slicing). Member of the executive project board.
This 5G testbed project focussed on delivering enhanced visual experiences for tourists using Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technology in major attractions in Bath and Bristol, including the Roman Baths and Millennium Square. Content and technology developments were provided by the BBC and Aardman with support from the University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab. The project demonstrated self-provision of 5G and Wi-Fi and innovative mmWave backhaul, and addressed safety issues by providing emergency service capacity through network slicing and splicing. -
5G Rural First (UK)
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5G Rural First is a co-innovation project led by Cisco alongside principal partner University of Strathclyde and a consortium of other partners across business, government and academia. It's first goal is to create rural test-beds and trials for 5G wireless and mobile across three main sites in the Orkney Islands, Shropshire and Somerset.
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Telecom Infra Project - BT TEAC Wave One
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See projectMy role in the project: Investigation of the productisation angle to the technology showcased. Liaison with BT (use/business cases definition, design workshops). Investigation of opportunities across different technology teams, specially with mmwave, slicing and open optical.
As part of our participation at BT TIP TEAC Wave 1 project, Zeetta worked with a number of collaborators to develop comprehensive SDN control for white-box switches. This will lower the capex and opex for operators…My role in the project: Investigation of the productisation angle to the technology showcased. Liaison with BT (use/business cases definition, design workshops). Investigation of opportunities across different technology teams, specially with mmwave, slicing and open optical.
As part of our participation at BT TIP TEAC Wave 1 project, Zeetta worked with a number of collaborators to develop comprehensive SDN control for white-box switches. This will lower the capex and opex for operators and bring users to a central place in the operations of networks, by lowering the technical requirements needed to run them and allowing engineers to focus on the important problems to solve.
We showcased several of our reference deployments, including the installation of NetOS at Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol.
TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre’s (TEACs) are a global, sustainable ecosystem that attracts the brightest entrepreneurial minds and innovative investors to work together to produce breakthrough technologies that reimagine telecom infrastructure. By bringing together the key actors – established operators, cutting-edge start-ups, and global and local investors – TEACs establish the necessary foundation to foster collaboration, accelerate trials, and bring deployable infrastructure solutions to the telecom industry.
In partnership with TIP, several of the world’s largest Telecom Service Providers are hosting TEACs in the UK, Paris, Seoul and Germany.
Press release for the winners of BT TEAC Wave 1: http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/tech-news/bt-telecom-infra-project-and-facebook-announce-start-up-competition-winners-11364216896873 -
Bristol 5G Testbed (UK)
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My role in the project: Stakeholder management, liaison with project coordinator, project management and infrastructure delivery advisor.
A world-class 5G technology test network was aiming to put Britain at the forefront of the next wave of mobile technology, potentially adding up to £173 billion to the economy by 2030. The University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab, along with 5G experts from the University of Surrey and King's College London has been awarded £16 million by the…My role in the project: Stakeholder management, liaison with project coordinator, project management and infrastructure delivery advisor.
A world-class 5G technology test network was aiming to put Britain at the forefront of the next wave of mobile technology, potentially adding up to £173 billion to the economy by 2030. The University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab, along with 5G experts from the University of Surrey and King's College London has been awarded £16 million by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to developed a cutting-edge 5G test network.
The universities worked together to create three small-scale mobile networks which form the test network. The '5GUK Testbeds and Trials Programme' delivered a 5G end-to-end trial in early 2018, testing the capability of 5G to make an application or service work in a real-world environment.Other creators -
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5G-XHaul (EU 5G)
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My role in the project: Liaison between Bristol Is Open and the project consortium, infrastructure and demo delivery advisor.
Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul/Fronthaul with Cognitive Control Plane for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs
Small Cells, Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN), Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are key enablers to address the demand for broadband connectivity with low cost and flexible implementations…My role in the project: Liaison between Bristol Is Open and the project consortium, infrastructure and demo delivery advisor.
Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul/Fronthaul with Cognitive Control Plane for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs
Small Cells, Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN), Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are key enablers to address the demand for broadband connectivity with low cost and flexible implementations. All of them pose very stringent requirements on the transport network. Here flexible wireless solutions are required for dynamic backhaul and fronthaul architectures alongside very high capacity optical interconnects. However, there is no consensus on how both technologies can be most efficiently combined.
5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless network solution able to flexibly connect Small Cells to the core network. Exploiting user mobility, our solution allows the dynamic allocation of network resources to predicted and actual hotspots. To support these novel concepts, 5G-XHaul develops:
- Dynamically programmable, high capacity, low latency, point-to-multipoint mm-Wave transceivers, cooperating with sub-6- GHz systems;
- A Time Shared Optical Network offering elastic and fine granular bandwidth allocation, cooperating with advanced passive optical networks;
- A software-defined cognitive control plane, able to forecast traffic demand in time and space, and the ability to reconfigure network components.Other creators -
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5GCity (EU H2020)
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My role in the project: Liaison with key stakeholders to design the delivery of the demonstrations over the Bristol Is Open smart city infrastructure. Advisor on infrastructure deployment and operations.
Recently, edge computing is pushing cloud architectures all the way to the edge of the network, close to the devices that produce and act on data. We posit that there are two sets of players perfectly poised to take advantage of both trends since they already own the infrastructure…My role in the project: Liaison with key stakeholders to design the delivery of the demonstrations over the Bristol Is Open smart city infrastructure. Advisor on infrastructure deployment and operations.
Recently, edge computing is pushing cloud architectures all the way to the edge of the network, close to the devices that produce and act on data. We posit that there are two sets of players perfectly poised to take advantage of both trends since they already own the infrastructure needed to build edge deployments: telecommunication providers and smart cities (i.e. municipalities). 5GCity focuses on how ordinary smart city infrastructure (i.e., small cells and processing power at the very edge of networks) can bring benefit to both players based on resource sharing and end-to-end virtualisation, pushing the cloud model to the extreme edge.
5GCity will design, develop, deploy and demonstrate, in operational conditions, a distributed cloud and radio platform for municipalities and infrastructure owners acting as 5G neutral hosts. 5GCity’s main aim is to build and deploy a common, multi-tenant, open platform that extends the (centralised) cloud model to the extreme edge of the network, with a demonstration in three different cities (Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca). 5GCity will directly impact a vast and varied range of actors: (i) telecom providers; (ii) municipalities; and (iii) many different vertical sectors utilising the city infrastructure.Other creators -
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FLAME (EU H2020)
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My role in the project: Work Package Lead (infrastructure operations and sustainability), member of the project board
Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation
FLAME instead takes a holistic approach with the platform reaching from the top-level experiment level over the traditional compute & storage cloud infrastructure down to the routing and transport network level, providing experimental control over aspects at all levels. Due to this approach, the outcome of a…My role in the project: Work Package Lead (infrastructure operations and sustainability), member of the project board
Facility for Large-scale Adaptive Media Experimentation
FLAME instead takes a holistic approach with the platform reaching from the top-level experiment level over the traditional compute & storage cloud infrastructure down to the routing and transport network level, providing experimental control over aspects at all levels. Due to this approach, the outcome of a FLAME experiment aims at providing a deeper understanding of how to manage OTT media applications and deliver insight into platform operations for every experiment that is executed, seeding commercialisation of the results with the gained insights.Other creators -
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OFERTIE (EU FP7)
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My role in the project: Research engineer (SDN)
OpenFlow Experiment in Real-time Internet Edutainment
OFERTIE is a 24 month project funded by the EC FP7 programme, which aims to use software-defined networking (SDN) approaches to improve delivery of an emerging class of distributed applications for the Future Internet known as Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA).Other creators -
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GN3Plus
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My role in the project: Research engineer (network virtualisation)
GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Together we connect over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across Europe, supporting research in areas such as energy, the environment, space and medicine.
The GÉANT network and associated services comprise the GN3plus project, made up of 41 partners and co-funded by the…My role in the project: Research engineer (network virtualisation)
GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Together we connect over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across Europe, supporting research in areas such as energy, the environment, space and medicine.
The GÉANT network and associated services comprise the GN3plus project, made up of 41 partners and co-funded by the European Union.Other creators -
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Géant
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Géant3
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My role in the project: Research engineer (SDN, network security framework, network virtualisation)
The GÉANT network is the fast and reliable pan-European communications infrastructure serving Europe’s research and education community. Co-funded by European National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and the EC, the GÉANT network and project (also known as GN3) is entering its third generation, along with associated development activities.
GÉANT's core objective is to deliver…My role in the project: Research engineer (SDN, network security framework, network virtualisation)
The GÉANT network is the fast and reliable pan-European communications infrastructure serving Europe’s research and education community. Co-funded by European National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and the EC, the GÉANT network and project (also known as GN3) is entering its third generation, along with associated development activities.
GÉANT's core objective is to deliver real value and benefit to society by enabling research communities across Europe, and the world, to transform the way they collaborate on ground-breaking research.
The GÉANT project advances all aspects of European research and education networking, encompassing:
- The fast and reliable GÉANT network.
- A portfolio of advanced connectivity, network support and access services for NRENs, projects, institutions and end users.
- Initiatives to address the digital divide of research and education networking across Europe.
- Technological research to ensure GÉANT continues to be at the forefront of networking on a global scale.Other creators -
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GEYSERS (EU FP7)
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My role in the project: Work Package Lead (infrastructure middleware design and development) and research engineer. Partner engagement.
Generalised Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services
GEYSERS is a project funded under the European Comission's Seventh Framework Programme.
A consortium of NRENs, universities, research institutions, SMEs, and manufacturers, its goal is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to…My role in the project: Work Package Lead (infrastructure middleware design and development) and research engineer. Partner engagement.
Generalised Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services
GEYSERS is a project funded under the European Comission's Seventh Framework Programme.
A consortium of NRENs, universities, research institutions, SMEs, and manufacturers, its goal is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional business operations.Other creators -
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PHOSPHORUS (EU FP6)
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My role in the project: Research engineer (network architecture/transport/optical)
Lambda User-Controlled Infrastructure For European Research
Phosphorus will address some of the key technical challenges to enable on-demand e2e network services across multiple domains. The Phosphorus network concept and test-bed will make applications aware of their complete Grid resources (computational and networking) environment and capabilities, and able to make dynamic, adaptive and optimized…My role in the project: Research engineer (network architecture/transport/optical)
Lambda User-Controlled Infrastructure For European Research
Phosphorus will address some of the key technical challenges to enable on-demand e2e network services across multiple domains. The Phosphorus network concept and test-bed will make applications aware of their complete Grid resources (computational and networking) environment and capabilities, and able to make dynamic, adaptive and optimized use of heterogeneous network infrastructures connecting various high-end resources.Other creators -
Honors & Awards
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Best Session Award on the Future Internet Assembly 2014
European Commission
Best Session Award for the session I co-chaired with Dr. Diego López, Head of Technology Exploration at Telefónica I+D, on the evolution of the Network Functions Virtualization
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Emerging Research Group on Software-Defined Networking and Network Architectures Recognition (development grant)
Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya)
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Tutor of the Winner Project of the Student ICT Research Project Competition
European Commission (DG CONNECT)
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Best Master Thesis on Telematic Services
Accenture and the Barcelona Engineering School for Telecommunications (UPC)
Thesis title: "Development of an IP/MPLS network with Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering mechanisms"
Press release available at (Catalan only): https://saladepremsa2.upc.edu/al-dia/mes-noticies/2007/noticia_1846.html
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Telecos.cat - Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineers
Member and UK Delegate in Bristol
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Open Grid Forum
Standard Contributor
-The NSI is a web-service based API that operates between a requester software agent and a provider software agent. The full suite of NSI services allows an application or network provider to request and manage circuit service instances. Apart from the Connection Service these include the Topology Service and the Discovery Service. The complete set of NSI services is described in the Network Services Framework.
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Need another great reason for the Competition and Markets Authority to approve the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK? Try improved railway coverage! According to the MNOs if the merger is approved it will mean they can deploy true 5G across the UK’s rail network, which they claim would unlock £3 billion for the UK economy. I am always sceptical on some stats like this, not to mention others like how stand-alone 5G would reduce delays on the rail network, but it would be nice to be able to connect when on a train! #connectivity #networks #investment #innovation #mnos #2g #3g #4g #5g #business #UK #masts #growth #mobile #mobilenetworks #telecoms #telecommunications #technology #rail #railways https://lnkd.in/ee8yrxHt
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Smith Institute
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The FND Group
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The AssetHUB
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Sam Jackman
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