Green Sustainable Telco Cloud

减少信息和通信技术(信通技术)行业中极其广泛地使用电子设备和电信服务所造成的温室气体排放，正在加拿大和全世界出现。基于虚拟化的云计算被认为是重塑未来几代网络的一种有前途的方法，它使几个租户能够高效地共享相同的物理基础设施，从而提高能源效率。将云计算从互联网领域引入下一代网络(NGN)，以提供电信云服务，将利用NGN，降低成本，创造许多增值服务。因此，贝尔和Telus等世界级运营商采用基于云的通信模式变得至关重要。然而，与公共互联网云不同，电信云有特定的要求，如性能、可扩展性、安全性和隔离性。由首席研究员领导的CANARIE绿星网络(GSN)最近成为世界上第一个完全由可再生能源供电的网络。尽管仍处于研究和教育原型阶段，节点和发电的开发规模非常小，但几个加拿大和国际绿色节点已经联合起来，并由GSN平台进行高效管理。拟议的项目将发展GSN平台，并将通过设计具有优化工作负荷、能源消耗和温室气体排放的环境控制功能的开放和可扩展的云，以及通过调查云的生命周期及其环境影响，来应对构建绿色和可持续的可互操作弹性云服务方面的挑战。与大多数以服务器为中心的公共互联网云解决方案不同，建议的模式将以网络为中心，目标是电信行业。与爱立信和Inocybe Technologies的合作将有助于系统地研究Telco云架构，以期为下一代绿色和可持续的云开发最佳和可靠的设计。这将利用加拿大作为绿色ICT技术、未来互联网和绿色经济领先者的专业知识。

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by the extremely widespread use of electronic devices and telecommunications services in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry is emerging in Canada and throughout the world. Cloud computing, based on virtualization, has been envisioned as a promising approach to reshaping future generations of networks by enabling several tenants to efficiently share the same physical infrastructure, thus increasing energy efficiency. Bringing cloud computing from the Internet domain to Next Generation Networks (NGN) in order to provide Telco cloud services will leverage the use of NGN, reduce costs and create many value-added services. It is therefore becoming critical for world-class carriers, like Bell and Telus, to adopt a cloud-based communications model. However, unlike public Internet clouds, a Telco cloud has specific requirements, such as performance, scalability, security and isolation. The CANARIE GreenStar Network (GSN), led by the principal investigator, recently became the first network in the world to be powered entirely by renewable energy. Although it is still at the research and educational prototype stage, with nodes and generated power developed on a very small scale, several Canadian and international green nodes have been federated and efficiently managed by the GSN platform. The proposed project will evolve the GSN platform and will address challenges in building interoperable elastic cloud services that are green and sustainable, by designing open and scalable clouds with environmental control features that optimize workload, energy consumption and GHG emissions, and by investigating the cloud's life-cycle and its environmental impacts. Unlike most of the server-centric public Internet cloud solutions, the proposed model will be network-centric and target the telecommunications industry. The partnership with Ericsson and Inocybe Technologies will help to systematically investigate the Telco cloud architecture, with a view to developing optimal and reliable designs for next generation green and sustainable clouds. This will leverage Canada's expertise as a leader in green ICT technologies, Future Internet, and the green economy.