UBITECH participated at Net Futures 2015 that took place in Brussels, March 25-26, 2015, while a presentation was provided at the Network Apps Session. The session explored the challenged introduced and the opportunities opened up by the transition to Software Networks that the Telecommunications Industry is experiencing. Different actors (Operators, Manufacturers, SMEs and academia) are facing them from different angles. The session explored the interactions between the established manufacturers and the SMEs and if a Marketplace for Network Applications would be the right instrument to foster Network Innovation.
On behalf of UBITECH, Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos provided a presentation entitled “Enabling rapid and adaptive network applications deployment” where a novel software development paradigm was provided targeted at facilitating developers to develop infrastructural agnostic applications that can be deployed over programmable infrastructure and dynamically configured during execution time. Dr. Anastasios Zafeiropoulos also participated at the panel discussion followed after the session’s presentations as well as to the discussion with the audience.
The key message extracted from the session is the following: The Future Internet is about Future Internet “Software”. There is a need for novel programming paradigms and open APIs in the area of SDN but foremost, we need to build a reference architecture that scopes what we mean by the term “Network App”. Once this is in place, we will be able to explore the impact of this paradigm change in the European Telecommunications eco-system and exploit the full potential for Operators, Manufacturers and SMEs.
