HTML5 Webook

24/64

22Open InnovationICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center At the ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center, we are building and operating an integrated testbed that is compatible with various IoT demonstration experiments, including an ultra high speed R&D network testbed (JGN), a wide area SDN testbed (RISE), a large scale emulation facility (StarBED), and a large scale sensor and cloud facility (JOSE).We are also researching and developing infrastructure technology for the implementation of a large scale actual infrastructure testbed for highly realistic technical verification of cutting-edge ICT deployed on actual infrastructure, and a large scale emulation infrastructure testbed for performing technical verification in diverse environments partially combined with simulated infrastructure.Construction of NICT’s integrat-ed testbedAt the ICT Testbed Coordination and Planning Office, we are integrating multi-ple testbeds and developing services for an NICT integrated testbed. As a result, we are constructing and operating a testbed that supports diverse IoT demonstration experiments including both emulated and real infrastructure. In FY2017, with the aim of increasing the number of users, we started on new initiatives including a cara-van testbed (a set of portable communica-tion equipment that supports the last mile of IoT), and an LPWA testbed (a demon-stration field where it is possible to test and verify multiple LPWA communication schemes). In collaboration with the ICT Testbed Research, Development and Op-erations Laboratory, we are developing and verifying the underlying technologies of each testbed, installing these technolo-gies in testbeds, and offering them to us-ers. Figure 1 shows an outline of the NICT integrated testbed.Cooperation with external orga-nizationsIn November 2017, NICT constructed Asia’s first wide-area international demon-stration environment in collaboration with SingAREN and NSCC based on a 100 Gbps line between Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In the following month, NICT and SingAREN formed a project with the other five organizations, including SINET and Internet2, and entered into a Memo-randum of Understanding for cooperation on a 100 Gbps network for research and education use across the Asia-Pacific re-gion. At SC17 held in Denver, USA, an inter-national demonstration environment was constructed using three 100 Gbps interna-tional routes between Japan and the Unit-ed States, and we successfully conducted ultra high speed data transmission tests at rates of up to 270 Gbps in cooperation with the National Institute of Informatics. We also established an international dem-onstration environment at the Sapporo Snow Festival with two 100 Gbps lines be-tween Japan and Singapore, and collabo-rated with some 50 organizations from in-dustry, academia, and government to conduct successful multicast distribution of uncompressed 8K video streams. Fur-thermore, the Himawari satellite real-time imaging Web site, whose technology was transferred to domestic weather agencies in FY2017, is now serving 400,000-page views per year (a 25% increase) to clients outside Japan. To improve the usability and convenience of this service, a mirror site has been set up at NECTEC in Bangkok. In Fig.1 : NICT’s integrated testbedThe Fourth Medium to Long-term PlanAccelerating technical demonstration and actual proof in society as a unit.Integration of NICT’s testbeds on JGN InfrastructureActivating testbeds use and application Establishment of testbed infrastructure technologyCooperation with both inside and outside NICT Research and Development