Research area

Continuously nurturing our know-how portfolio, whether applied to our product development or consultancy activities, is the aim of our research activity. And we do this by participating in international co-operative projects, where we can work with high-profile global partners, increase our technological and knowledge assets, and nurture the Nextworks R&D brand on a European scale and beyond.

Main Research Areas

The areas, themes, solutions and scenarios in which we operate with our research activities.

SDN/NFV/MEC for 5G

SDN, NFV and MEC Management and Orchestration frameworks for reconfigurable and multi-tenant 5G fronthaul, backhaul and transport networks. Smart Network Applications for Industry 4.0, media, smart cities and network security. Network Slicing for end-to-end 5G networks.

SDN/NFV for datacenters & cloud

Software defined control of optical data centre for inter- and intra-DC connectivity services. Converged orchestration of network and cloud resources. Composition and chaining of virtual network functions.

Internet of Things and Industrial IoT platforms for Smart
Buildings and Smart Factories

Software defined control of optical data centre for inter- and intra-DC connectivity services. Converged orchestration of network and cloud resources. Composition and chaining of virtual network functions.

5G Trials and KPI validation

5G pilots and trials for Media, Public Safety and Connected Vehicles, Smart Transport and Smart Mobility services. Federation of cloud, SDN and IoT test-beds across Europe, Japan and Brazil for large scale experiments on innovative network and Smart-city use-cases. 5G validation platforms with KPI collection and evaluation for automated testing of vertical services in 5G networks.

Networking beyond the Horizon

Secure and Reliable Virtual Execution Environments based on Unikernels to transform Home Automation / IoT micro-service architectures. Clean slate network architecture beyond TCP/IP based on Recursive Inter-Process Communication services to innovate and enhance network transport, e.g. in data centers.