Highlights

The concept of ShowNet 2018

“Dive Into The Next”

The new technology and services like 5G are developed toward 2020.
We consider what kind of technology and services will be required for the new generation network and practice them and dive into the next world. This is the spirit of the concept of 2018.

Please come and visit the ShowNet booth.

Focus categories and keywords

L2L3
The near future network with both flexible service delivery and stable network.

* Multi-point service chain by BGP Flowspec and over ray.
* Interoperability test of the next generation routing architrechture and segment routing
* 100G backbone which supports the various demonstration

Wireless
Wireless LAN for traffic demand near future

* Wide band-width with 802.11ac wave 2 and NBASE-T, MGBASE-T
* Simple & tough design OB
* Survey & Evaluation of usage situation

Security
Challenges for secure network with enough threat detection

* Serving flexible and various types of security by service chaining
* Getting ready for the immediate response to the cyber threat detection by EDR
* Monitoring and analysis by various security products
* Policy based defence in depth 

Monitoring
Flexible Monitoring structure

* Concentration of alerts and enough notification
* Intuitive and interactive monitoring system
* Acceleration between tools

DC/Server
Next generation datacenter fabric and virtualization / container platform

* Scalable infra platform by hyper converged & containers
* High speed storage by using NVMe
* 25G/100G based CLOS/EVPN+VXLAN network
* DC network management and quick deployment

Facility
Aggregation & rapid deploy facility

* Dealing with the various application
* The next generation 25G/100G media

IoT/Cloud
Secure and Scalable IoT network converged with cloud

* LPWA : enables low electronic consumption of IoT device and long distance communication
* Secure & stable wireless network with Local BWA/Closed LTE network
* Visual mobile core on the cloud
* Wide area and low latency network with 5G

ShowNet Topology

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External

Best of ShowNet Award

Grand Prize

グランプリ

nGenius 3900 Series Packet Flow Switch Spirent Communications / Toyo Corporation

Runners-up

準グランプリ

Software Router – Kamuee - NTT Communications

Special Prize

審査員特別賞

ThousandEyes : Network Intelligence Software ThousandEyes