Infrastructure Services
CENGN Infrastructure Services Are The Key Technical Resources Provided to Each Accepted Project.
Our infrastructure services provide you with the technology needed to validate your solutions and push your products to market. One unique aspect of our infrastructure is its adaptability. Each service can be customized to be used together or by itself as per the demands of the project. Our infrastructure is also flexible on the size of the project and can be changed based on the requirements for the proof-of-concept’s validation and demonstration. By working in collaboration with us, you are empowered to bring innovation to the ICT sector at a much faster rate.
CLOUD TENANCY SERVICE
We host a multi-vendor cloud infrastructure, offering cloud tenancy services for the entirety of the project. The following chart provides more in-depth information about our cloud tenancy services and how they can be of use to your innovative ideas.
vCPU1: The 20 vCPUs can be consumed by the user in any required combination of Openstack virtual machines (VM) quotas. Example: Small Flavour VM *20 or Extra Large Flavour VM * 2. Currently, any project required VMs are created by CENGN engineers.
Internet2: Our cloud has multi-redundant 1G connections to the Internet and 10G connections to major public cloud service providers such as Google, MS Office 365 and Akamai. The requirement for inbound data will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Cloud Resources | vCPU1 – 20 Memory – 40GB Disk – 400GB |
| Storage | Block – 2TB Maximum 50 volumes |
| Internet2 | BW -100Mbps Usage – 1TB per month Security Policy: Inbound data not allowed by default |
| IP | OpenStack Default (IPv4 only) Dual-stack network (IPv4 & IPv6) IPv4 Public Floating; /29 subnets, 2-4 IP addresses available, other IP addresses are used within the project space. IPv6: /64 subnets Up to 10 VLANs and 20 VXLAN networks for use with their CENGN Cloud instances |
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Smart Greenhouse Living Lab | •Wireless IoT sensor deployments • Mission-critical push-to-talk (PTT) and push-to-video (PTV) services • Low-latency edge computing for remote and automated operations and drone surveillance • Low-power sensor networks • Robotic crop disease detection • Financial or greenhouse business/ productivity optimization |
| Smart Mining Living Lab | •Mission-critical push-to-talk (PTT) and push-to-video (PTV) services • Low-latency edge computing for remote and automated operations and drone surveillance • Low-power sensor networks • Telemetry • IoT sensor deployments |
SMART LIVING LABS
The CENGN Testbed includes Living Labs, real testing environments for sector specific technologies. Through our Smart Mining and Smart Greenhouse Living Labs, we provide innovative tech businesses real-world connected mining and greenhouse facilities to validate their products. By providing these working environments, CENGN enables Canadian tech companies to commercialize their products.
Learn more about our industry specific programs through our Smart Agriculture Program page and Smart Mining Program page.
HARDWARE HOSTING SERVICES
We offer a supplementary hardware hosting service that works in conjunction with our cloud tenancy services. With this add-on service, if a project requires a specific device to be connected to the applications and/or software running in the tenancy, we can host the device in our facility and provide a network connection to the tenancy. The chart to the left explains the 4 hosting services that we can offer your enterprise.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Space | Up to 8RU |
| Power | AC power only; inverter needs to be supplied by SME for DC-powered devices; not backed up Max Power Draw: 2000W |
| Network | 1G IPv4 connectivity to the Cloud Tenancy |
| Installation | CENGN will install in our data centre and provide the necessary power and network connectivity |
| SLA | 8 x 5 Weekdays NBD restoration of service |
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU | 5,120 CUDA cores 640 Tensor cores 32GB RAM |
| Host System Options | 1. Bare metal servers with two V100 GPUs a. 36c/72t CPU b. 384 GB RAM c. Various high speed and high capacity storage options 2. Virtual machines with one V100 GPU a. Up to 36 vCPUs b. 192 GB RAM c. Various high speed and high capacity storage options |
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
We provide the industry’s highest-performance data centre-grade GPUs, the Tesla V100 (32GB RAM variant), for use in projects at CENGN. These GPUs can be provisioned as part of bare-metal systems or virtual machines.
BARE METAL SERVICES
We also offer bare metal as an optional add-on. If required to optimize the success rate of a project, a bare metal server will be provided for testing. For in-depth information, including specs about this service, view the chart to the left.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Processor | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6140, 2.3GHz (totaling 36c/72t) |
| Memory | 384GB |
| Storage | 2 x 240GB M.2 SSD, 1 x 800GB NVMe, 4 x 6TB HDD |
| Networking | 4 x 10GB |
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Hardware Platform | CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon 12c/24t 2.7GHz E5-2697 v2 processor Memory: 64GB Underlay 10G |
| Software Platform | Wind River Titanium Edge Cloud |
| Key Features | Availability, Carrier Grade Management, Performance and Scalability, Networking Services and VNF Management Services |
CARRIER-GRADE IAAS
With this service offering, customers are allocated a dedicated Cloud Platform based on Wind River Titanium Edge, a Carrier Grade virtualization platform. Titanium Edge is a high-performance, high availability as a Service (IaaS) cloud hosting environment designed for use cases where failures and outages must be avoided at all costs. Supporting standard OpenStack REST APIs, Linux and DPDK, Titanium Edge hosting is an ideal option for those familiar with standard enterprise IaaS offerings but demanding higher performance and reliability. Optionally, customers can utilize the Cloud Tenancy service to run any additional application or software to integrate with Titanium Edge cloud.