Grant: Research Networks

The NSERC Strategic Network SAVI is a partnership of Canadian industry, academia, research and educationnetworks, and high performance computing centres to investigate key elements of future application platforms,and to design a national distributed application platform testbed for creating and delivering Future Internetapplications. The testbed will provide flexible, virtualized converged infrastructure to support experimentalresearch in application-oriented networking, cloud computing, integrated wireless/optical access networks, andFuture Internet architectures. The testbed will also support experimentation in applications built on advancedservices that provide intelligence through analytics and advanced media processing. The SAVI testbed is to bedeployed in Canadian universities and so the initial target of the applications will be the academic community.The SAVI network will involve the academic community in the creation of new content and novel applicationsby developing an ecosystem of open-source projects built with its tools and platform. The ultimate goal of theSAVI Network is to address the design of future applications platforms built on flexible, versatile andevolvable infrastructure that can readily deploy, maintain, and retire the large-scale, possibly short-lived,distributed applications that will be typical in the future applications marketplace. The SAVI Network will helpadvance Canada's Digital Economy Strategy by strengthening the industrial base in information andcommunications technology (ICT) through the active participation of its partners in the research program aswell as the preparation of highly qualified manpower with expertise in the design and operation of globallycompetitive ICT infrastructure and the creation of innovative and disruptive products, services, andapplications.