Grant: Research Networks

The NSERC Strategic Network SAVI is a partnership of Canadian industry, academia, research and education networks, 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 Internet applications. The testbed will provide flexible, virtualized converged infrastructure to support experimental research in application-oriented networking, cloud computing, integrated wireless/optical access networks, and Future Internet architectures. The testbed will also support experimentation in applications built on advanced services that provide intelligence through analytics and advanced media processing. The SAVI testbed is to be deployed 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 applications by developing an ecosystem of open-source projects built with its tools and platform. The ultimate goal of the SAVI Network is to address the design of future applications platforms built on flexible, versatile and evolvable 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 help advance Canada's Digital Economy Strategy by strengthening the industrial base in information and communications technology (ICT) through the active participation of its partners in the research program as well as the preparation of highly qualified manpower with expertise in the design and operation of globally competitive ICT infrastructure and the creation of innovative and disruptive products, services, and applications.