Ekinops, bcom partner for private cloud architecture technology development
Ekinops (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 - EKI) says it will partner with French innovation center b<>com to develop technologies applicable to private cloud infrastructures. The agreement builds on a previous collaboration surrounding optical transport technology development (see "Ekinops collaborates with French research institute b<>com on SDN").
The companies will focus on developing hardware and software platforms using a bare-metal "service containers" approach. Such an approach would optimize resource allocation while creating offerings that are robust, compact, and easily integrated into any networking environment, Ekinops says. The resultant technology also will provide the flexibility necessary to host services for IoT or edge computing use cases such as real-time pattern or object recognition, and cloud services while offering 4G, 5G, or fiber access.
Ekinops hopes to have the first fruits of the collaboration on the market in 2022, according to Sylvain Quartier, vice president, marketing and product strategy access at Ekinops. “This will most likely apply to the field of cyber security, a strong topic for us in the context of our SD-WAN Xpress solution," he stated.
"Having already successfully applied virtualization to business use cases with our OneOS6-LIM technology, this new research collaboration will allow us to address different environments and services. A bare-metal integrated container approach in OneOS6 would offer the benefits of both worlds of physical (pCPE) and virtualized (uCPE) platforms," Quartier added.
"Our ambition is to imagine the private networks of tomorrow while meeting the needs of companies today," stated Mathieu Lagrange, director of networks and security at b<>com. "The challenges of the transformation that lies ahead are numerous, whether it is AI or real-time computing, for example, to serve the performance, resilience, and security of these future networks. The results of our joint research will probably be applied first to very demanding uses in terms of security and processing of high-definition video streams with very low latency, for example in the healthcare field."
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