Category: News

Jan 19

Ofertie Final Review

Ofertie final review will be held in Brussels on 12th February 2015.

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Jan 19

Ofertie at SDNConference

University of Southampton had presented OFERTIE at the Software Defined Networking and Virtualisation Summit (15-17 September 2014) conference in Nice[1] (Figure 6). On this influential conference there was over 250 attendees, 60 speakers and 25 exhibitors. The title of the presentation was “OFERTIE: an FP7 & Horizon 2020 initiative”. [1] http://sdnconference.com/

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Mar 17

OFERTIE at IETF89

The OFERTIE project participated at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in London, IETF89 on 2nd-7th March 2014, where we presented an outline of the project and its plans, highlighting how the project fits within the FIRE programme. The IRTF, which meets within the IETF, includes a research group on software-defined networking (SDNRG). You …

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Mar 12

OFERTIE appears in FIRE Brochure 2014

Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) has just published their 2014 brochure, which contains an article about the OFERTIE project.  The brochure is intended to give an insight to both facility and research projects currently funded by the EU (under FP7) in the area of Internet research and experimentation. The brochure also has articles for …

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Feb 18

OFERTIE/CityFlow SDN Concertation Workshop

At the end of January, the OFERTIE and CityFlow projects ran a workshop on the topic of SDN Concertation, hosted at the European Commission.  Many of the current and recently EU-funded SDN projects presented their research work and experiences. The CityFlow project originally hosted the web page for this workshop.  Below is a copy of …

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Jan 27

Southampton OpenFlow Test Network Setup: Progress Report 1

The equipment for Southampton OpenFlow test network arrived at the start of January.  Initially this will constitute 4 HP 2920 24G switches and 3 Dell servers.  The first of these 3 servers called Lear, will run the control applications for the test network and provide the test networks connection out to the wider Internet.  The …

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Nov 14

Photos from Vilnius

The OFERTIE stand at ICT 2013 in Vilnius was a great success. Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us. Around half of the people we spoke to had existing knowledge of SDN or OpenFlow and were interested to hear how OFERTIE is experimenting with this technology. The other half were attracted by …

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Nov 07

OFERTIE SDN Video

We have created a video that simply explains the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the motivation for the OFERTIE project.  

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Oct 30

See at ICT2013 Vilnius: Better collaboration via SDN

Virtual production is a sample use case where SDN can significantly improve the QoS of Internet based collaboration. See below for a screenshot of the scenario we are showing at ICT2013 Vilnius: Content (assets and artwork) by courtesy of PrävEM research group of the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.

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Oct 30

ICT 2013 at Vilnius

OFERTIE will have a booth at ICT 2013 in Vilnius between 6-8 November 2013. We will have two interactive demonstrations showing the need for Software Defined Networking. Come and take part in the demonstration at booth 5G8!

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