Verizon and tech giant Cisco hope recently demonstrated networking software could allow for simpler architectures and improved user experiences in the future.
Verizon said it successfully tested mobile video delivery with Cisco’s open-source Information-Centric Networking software at the carrier’s lab outside Boston.
The Hybrid ICN approach to content-aware service offerings, the companies said, would focus on “named data” — rather than location identifiers such as IP addresses — and, in turn, “dramatically simplify” next-generation architectures.
Officials said traffic localization and bandwidth savings would be maximized “in backhaul/core via enhanced multicast.”
In addition, the software could enable dynamic adaptive streaming solutions and dynamic load balancing of media while improving network mobility, storage and security.
Verizon, meanwhile, said a subsequent test demonstrated inserting ICN technology into existing IP infrastructure and co-existing with legacy IP traffic.
“Through our co-development with Verizon, we found that H-ICN empowers the network edge with low latency caching and computing capabilities for the support of new revenue-generating applications such as enterprise multi-radio access, augmented and virtual reality and IoT for 5G,” Cisco chief architect Dave Ward said in a statement.
