CENGN companies
Canada's Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN), is a consortium of large multinational companies, academic and research leaders dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of next generation communications solutions. CENGN is a not-for-profit company funded by the Canadian Government's Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) through the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) Program, as well as its industry members. The organization's members include: Cisco, Bell Canada, EXFO, Huawei, Invest Ottawa, Juniper Networks, Mitel, Nokia, Ribbon Communications, Rogers, TELUS and Wind River. CENGN's mission is to create a viable Canadian eco-system that facilitates commercialization in the next generation of networks by providing validation services to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Industry, Academia, and Government. CENGN's internationally recognized multi-vendor infrastructure is built on open source as well as commercially available Software and Hardware. CENGN's technology areas of focus are: Data Centre and Cloud Infrastructure, Internet of things (IoT), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Software Defined Networks (SDN), among others. The organization is at the leading edge in the development and deployment of Wired and Wireless Technologies that are utilized by applications such as Cloud, Wireless 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Broadband Internet, and Cyber Security.