The trainee will be integrated in the Management and Control software for network devices development team, with focus for the G.fast and xPON technologies over the AGORA network management solution.
The proposed project envisages the research, design and development of virtual network functions accordingly with the NFV vision and models, such as vOLT, vSG, vSW and vRouter functions.
The proposed Project is part of the Connectivity working group activities, where complete solutions for access, aggregation and transport networks are development, starting with PCB design up to the centralized management & operations platforms. ALB is actively developing the NG-PON2 technology being a pioneer in the industry.
New network paradigms such as SDN/NFV are pushing a significant part of the internal logic of network elements towards external general purposed, software based, computation platforms. These platforms could be dedicated servers or even virtual servers. Network devices simplification is achievable through open standards such as NETCONF/YANG and Openflow, reducing the devices to the physical layer and a thin logical layer with a minimum amount of functions (eventually only MAC) and the ability to perform basic operations over received packets (forward, discard, change, etc). Complex network functions can therefore be implemented using such basic operations over simpler, yet programmable, devices – the main essence of NFV. These programmed functions are SW based and could run in external environments such as dedicated general purpose servers or virtual servers. The purpose of this project is to follow these trends and to develop specific network functions (vOLT - Virtual Optical Line Terminal, vSG - Virtual Subscriber Gateway, vSW - Virtual Switch, vRouter - Virtual Router) based on SDN and NFV guidelines, to support current access network technologies such as xPON over simpler devices.
Connectivity
If you think you have the appropriate competences to work with us at this project, please contact us to genius@inova-ria.pt.