God knows I try to educate the dumbdumbs The solution we are developing will have many, long-lasting impacts on Canadian industry and defence,” saidNoura Limam, a research professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at UWaterloo and the project’s coordinator. Limam said that applications can range as widely as healthcare, public safety, and emergency response, among others.
Limam told BetaKit that UWaterloo’s research team, its collaborators from cole de technologie suprieure and University of Regina, as well as industry partners from Rockport, NoviFlow, and BlackBerry have common interests and expertise in 5G, networking, and network security.
“Coming together, building on existing collaborations and experiences … and joining forces to develop secure and reliable 5G mobile networks, and advance Canada’s security and defence was an opportunity and a natural thing to do,” Limam said.
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For example, BlackBerry aims to build new solutions for identifying and blocking the insertion of malicious software into the 5G supply chain. Rockport will provide UWaterloo researchers with high-performance local area networks to power AI workloads at the 5G edge, while NoviFlow’s contribution will be its multi-terabyte, software-defined networking solutions meant to help UWaterloo deploy a multi-access edge cloud for on-demand deployment of security functions at the network edge.
Additionally, UWaterloo said that the solutions coming out of the consortium will be integrated with its partner and collaborator technologies to create a proof-of-concept on the UWaterloo-Rogers 5G testbed.