What's happening
Consortium partners have started work on GDCE-CI project
infrastructure and Services.
under the IPCEI program for Next generation Cloud
Project Start Date:
1.5.2024
Project End Date:
30.6.2026
Project Total Costs:
3.020.847 €
Maximum Grant Amount:
1.403.090 €
The overall objective of the GDCE-CI project is to develop and innovate open and interoperable cloud, edge and interconnect technologies that will enable the construction of highly reliable, low latency and secure geographically distributed infrastructure for critical services.
The goal is to develop geographically distributed cloud and edge infrastructures that support the coexistence of virtualizations with or without containers, (meta)orchestration in multiple clouds, automation of life cycle management by ensuring quality of service and cyber security. In addition, the project includes the development of virtualized, mobile and/or wired network services to connect local or remote cloud and edge nodes and IoT devices.
End users will benefit from cost and performance-effective provisioning of mission-critical applications on private, hybrid or public cloud and edge infrastructures in either IaaS, PaaS or SaaS mode, depending on whether part of the federated multi-cloud and highly interoperable interconnecting infrastructure already exists or shall be additionally deployed for tailored mission-critical application’s needs.
Goals
SDA Controller
Designing, developing and implementing Software Defined Network Controller
Designing, developing and implementing Software Defined Access (SDA) Controller, adapted for centralized and decentralized Cloud-Edge architectures that will interconnect central cloud, light weight on premise and far edge nodes.
Networking services
Architecture, development and implementation of Networking Services for edges
Architecture definition, development, and implementation of Networking Services for on premise edges and far/near edges for confidential, dependable and/or mission-critical (ultra-reliable, low-latency) applications (4G/5G/Wi-Fi).
Security
Lifecyle secure design, security architecture, measures and check-ups
Lifecyle secure design, security architecture, security measures and security check-ups for distributed multi-provider Datacentre-Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum.
Orchestration
Integrated Edge-Cloud continuum Life Cycle Management, Orchestration and Automation
Integrated Multi-Provider and Edge-Cloud continuum Life Cycle Management, Orchestration and Automation for non-containerized and containerized virtual Cloud and Edge environments
Monitoring
Distributed tools/solutions for automated proactive testing, monitoring and reporting
Tools for automated proactive testing, monitoring and reporting of network, services and applications performance and cloud/edge related metrics, allowing end-to-end monitoring, to support QoS-aware SDN implementation guaranteeing QoE/QoS performance.
Operations Centres
Distributed Security Operations Centres
Develop and integrate real-time attack detection, reaction and recovery, develop threat intelligence and integrate threat detection for cloud-edge continuum and infrastructure for Distributed Security Operations Centres.
Threat Intelligence
Integrate threat intelligence, identify security requirements and implement use cases
Integrate threat intelligence, identify security requirements and implement use cases with high security requirements for specific needs e.g. E-Government, Industry or Enterprise software.
PoC & FID
First Industrial Deployment roll-out, Proof of Concept and interop testing.
First Industrial Deployment (FID) roll-out, Proof of Concept (PoC) and interoperability testing for flexible and highly programmable infrastructure for integration and interconnection with CoSEC and OSMOP.EU macro projects.
Partners
Kontron, informacijske in komunikacijske rešitve, d.o.o.
ResEvo d.o.o.
Results
| Result (number) | Deliverable name | Tasks | Leader | Type | Milestone (Month) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1.1 | Centralized SDN Controller | A1.1 Programable interconnecting infrastructure for centralized and de-centralized Cloud-Edge environments & A1.2 Blueprints for 5G core flexible Edge/Cloud connectivity & A1.5 Blueprints for Integration of Edge nodes with portable meshed WiFi networks | ISK | Document | M.1 (M 48) |
| D1.2 | System architecture of 5G private network with QoS control | A1.3 Blueprints for Integration of Edge/Cloud nodes with private 5G networks | ISK | Document | M.1 (M 48) |
| D1.3 | Service mesh network architecture | A1.4 Blueprints for Integration of Edge nodes with portable meshed WiFi networks | ISK | Document | M.1 (M 48) |
| D1.4 | On-premise edge device with modular interfaces | A1.6 Blueprint of portable On-premise edge device with portability of 4G/5G or Wi-Fi interface & A1.7 Development & implementation portable On-premise edge device with portability of 4G/5G or Wi-Fi interfaces | ISK | Document | M.1 (M 48) |
| D2.1 | XaaS layer and DCIM adaptations to support coexistence of VMs and Containers based environments Prototype: Prototype of orchestrator with CNF integration | A2.1 Development of innovative components for orchestration. Research on optimized models for life-cycle management of VMs and Containers and for the automation and smart orchestration of workloads across the datacenter-cloud-edge-IoT continuum & A2.2 Innovative OS development, L3 deployment OS A3.1 Interoperability of Iskratel Orchestrator and Cloud with Meta-orchestrator for Federated Cloud Infrastructure | ISK | Document Prototype | M.2 (M 48) |
| D3.2 | Analysis report of the feasibility of integration of Iskratel Orchestrator to OpenNebula meta-orchestrator | A3.2 Quality assurance for Cloud-edge continuum | INN | Document | M.3 (M 48) |
| D3.3 | Quality assurance for Cloud-edge continuum | A3.3 Quality assurance tools integration to Cloud-edge continuum | INN | Document | M.3 (M 48) |
| D4.1 | Secure Design Methodology and Security Reports | A4.1 Reference Security Architecture to provide safe, resilient archtecture for distributed multi-provider Datacentre-Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum | S&T | Document | M.4 (M 45) |
| D4.2 | Methodology, integration methods, real time threat intel methods and secure integration model | A4.2 Distributed Security Operations for Cloud-Edge Continuum | S&T | Document | M.4 (M 45) |
| D4.3 | Specific use cases | A4.3 Cross cutting Security for specific industry needs | S&T | Document | M.4 (M 45) |
| D5.1 | GDCE-CI interoperability test results | A5.1 Cloud/Edge integration with Networks and Interconnection infrastructure & A5.2 INteroperability and PoC testing with CoSEC environment & A5.3 Interoperability and Multi-Cloud PoC testing with meta-orchestrator platform OSMOP.EU | S&T | Document | M.5 (M 48) |
Contact
Kontron, informacijske in komunikacijske rešitve, d.o.o, Kranj
Ljubljanska cesta 24a
SI-4000 Kranj
Slovenia
Tel.: +386 4 207 2412
Fax: +386 4 207 39686
E-pošta: gdce-ci@kontron.si
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The investment is financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union from the European Recovery and Resilience Fund (www.eu-skladi.si).