A configurable network and cloud test environment for validating network applications, virtualized functions and orchestration across NFVi and Metro WAN infrastructure. Projects can investigate interoperability, traffic behaviour and scaling under specified network conditions.
Technical detail
Core features
OpenStack-distribution NFVi and an advertised 2x100G Metro WAN connection; project bandwidth allocation requires agreement.
Overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology-discovery stress testing and network analytics.
VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class-of-service and latency-based path-change scenarios.
Configuration-specific benchmarking and dimensioning can produce measured results and repeatable VNF-onboarding documentation.
NFV
SDN
OpenStack
Metro WAN
VNF interoperability
Use & integration
Recorded applications
Network-management and topology-discovery validation
Virtualized network-function interoperability and scaling
Traffic-policy and path-selection experiments
These describe the reviewed application scope, not confirmed deployments, released requirements or procurement eligibility.
Evidence of maturity
CENGN’s historical Interdynamix case reports exceeding 40,000-QPS fixed-NFVi and 80,000-QPS single-VNF dimensioning requirements on a dedicated two-server Wind River Titanium Edge setup. The VNF and actual peaks are undisclosed; this is provider-reported configuration evidence, not a current SLA.
Commercial availability
Canadian SME projects are selected and configured by agreement. The current living-lab guide requires 499 or fewer full-time staff and applicant TRL4+, with conditional co-funding and a CAD2,500 membership fee. Confirm whether the requested NFVi/VNF environment is included in the selected package; published WAN capacity is not a reserved allocation.
Integration and verification
Readiness
A technology readiness level is not established by the reviewed public sources.
Reviewed connections
No reviewed Mission area or released Defence need connection is currently published.
Original sources 7 linked records
These records support this capability and its published Mission area and Defence need connections. A source count is not a count of independent confirmations.
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.summary. Proposed value: A cloud-connected network test environment for validating network applications and functions across high-speed metro-WAN links, software-defined networking and network-function-virtualization configurations.. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · name
CENGN offers a cloud testbed with high-speed Metro WAN and NFV/SDN infrastructure for network applications, including overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology/discovery stress tests and network analytics. These are project types, not measured throughput or operational customer deployments.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.features.0. Proposed value: High-speed metro-WAN links between testbed environments. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · capability type
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.capabilityType. Proposed value: Advanced-network application and function-validation service. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.features.2. Proposed value: Network overlay and underlay validation. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.technicalTags.3. Proposed value: network analytics. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.technicalTags.0. Proposed value: NFV. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · maturity
True North Map derives this bounded assessment from the cited record. Field: capabilities.1.maturity. Proposed value: CENGN presents the network-application test environment as a current commercialization service and current partner sources document active living-lab expansion; no public capacity, queue or independently accepted performance outcome was found.. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · name
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.name. Proposed value: Network-application and NFV/SDN validation. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
True North Map derives this bounded assessment from the cited record. Field: capabilities.1.technicalDomainSlugs.0. Proposed value: communications-and-cyber. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · summary
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · capability type
CENGN offers a cloud testbed with high-speed Metro WAN and NFV/SDN infrastructure for network applications, including overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology/discovery stress tests and network analytics. These are project types, not measured throughput or operational customer deployments.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.technicalTags.2. Proposed value: metro WAN. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
True North Map derives this bounded assessment from the cited record. Field: capabilities.1.commercialAvailability. Proposed value: Canadian firms route access through CENGN's expression-of-interest and project-evaluation process; the exact environment, schedule, price and support amount require confirmation.. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.applications.2. Proposed value: Network analytics and discovery assessment. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.applications.0. Proposed value: Network-management software validation. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · name
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · summary
CENGN offers a cloud testbed with high-speed Metro WAN and NFV/SDN infrastructure for network applications, including overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology/discovery stress tests and network analytics. These are project types, not measured throughput or operational customer deployments.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.applications.1. Proposed value: Virtualized network-function testing. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · capability type
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · maturity
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.technicalTags.1. Proposed value: SDN. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
CENGN offers a cloud testbed with high-speed Metro WAN and NFV/SDN infrastructure for network applications, including overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology/discovery stress tests and network analytics. These are project types, not measured throughput or operational customer deployments.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
CENGN offers a cloud testbed with high-speed Metro WAN and NFV/SDN infrastructure for network applications, including overlay/underlay automation, WAN virtualization, topology/discovery stress tests and network analytics. These are project types, not measured throughput or operational customer deployments.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.applications.3. Proposed value: Private and advanced-network integration experiments. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.features.1. Proposed value: Network-function-virtualization and software-defined-networking datacentre configurations. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cloud testbed and metro-WAN links support NFV/SDN, overlay/underlay, WAN virtualisation, topology discovery and network analytics validation for Canadian SMEs.
Supports: Capability · core features
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.features.3. Proposed value: WAN virtualization, network analytics and topology-discovery testing. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The cited record supports this bounded public field. Field: capabilities.1.technicalTags.4. Proposed value: network topology. Source scope: CENGN describes a cloud testbed connected through high-speed Metro WAN links and configured for NFV and SDN environments, supporting validation of overlay and underlay management, WAN virtualization, network analytics, discovery and topology applications.
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · commercial availability
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
March2026 guide requires registered Canadian applicants with499 or fewer full-time employees, solutionTRL4+ and deployability in a lab, with at least90% of eligible-cost work in Canada. Innovation and Adoption maxima are CAD250000/CAD500000, reimbursing up to40% of eligible expenses; Calls for Proposals have a CAD100000 maximum and up-to50% reimbursement. Successful applicants pay a one-time CAD2500 nonreimbursable membership fee. Adoption requires a prospective-customer LOI. These are application limits, not awarded sums or CENGN staffing.
Supports: Capability · technology readiness level
March2026 guide requires registered Canadian applicants with499 or fewer full-time employees, solutionTRL4+ and deployability in a lab, with at least90% of eligible-cost work in Canada. Innovation and Adoption maxima are CAD250000/CAD500000, reimbursing up to40% of eligible expenses; Calls for Proposals have a CAD100000 maximum and up-to50% reimbursement. Successful applicants pay a one-time CAD2500 nonreimbursable membership fee. Adoption requires a prospective-customer LOI. These are application limits, not awarded sums or CENGN staffing.
True North Map derives this bounded assessment from the cited record. Field: capabilities.1.maturity. Proposed value: CENGN presents the network-application test environment as a current commercialization service and current partner sources document active living-lab expansion; no public capacity, queue or independently accepted performance outcome was found.. Source scope: Ericsson Canada says CENGN, Ericsson and CNIMI launched the Advanced Manufacturing Living Lab in Drummondville on 2026-04-16. It describes the 2,800-square-metre factory-lab as CENGN's eighth facility and states that Ericsson Private 5G powers the environment.
The Interdynamix case describes a dedicated Wind River Titanium Edge high-availability two-x86-server cloud and a CENGN-configured VNF tenant. In fixed-NFVi benchmarking, a 40,000 queries-per-second requirement was exceeded; single-VNF dimensioning exceeded an 80,000 queries-per-second requirement. The VNF is unnamed and actual peaks are not disclosed. Outputs included benchmark/dimensioning results and repeatable onboarding documentation; these historical configuration-specific results are not a current service SLA.
Public sources cited · Facts and assessments kept separate · Human review
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · summary
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technical tags
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · core features
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · defence applications
The public SDN/NFV/SD-WAN service page describes an OpenStack-distribution NFVi and a 2x100G Metro WAN connection for project validation. Scenarios include VNF/orchestrator interoperability, elastic workload scaling, class of service and latency-based path changes. This is an advertised infrastructure link, not a guaranteed per-project bandwidth allocation.
Supports: Capability · technicaldomainslugs
The Interdynamix case describes a dedicated Wind River Titanium Edge high-availability two-x86-server cloud and a CENGN-configured VNF tenant. In fixed-NFVi benchmarking, a 40,000 queries-per-second requirement was exceeded; single-VNF dimensioning exceeded an 80,000 queries-per-second requirement. The VNF is unnamed and actual peaks are not disclosed. Outputs included benchmark/dimensioning results and repeatable onboarding documentation; these historical configuration-specific results are not a current service SLA.
Supports: Capability · core features
The Interdynamix case describes a dedicated Wind River Titanium Edge high-availability two-x86-server cloud and a CENGN-configured VNF tenant. In fixed-NFVi benchmarking, a 40,000 queries-per-second requirement was exceeded; single-VNF dimensioning exceeded an 80,000 queries-per-second requirement. The VNF is unnamed and actual peaks are not disclosed. Outputs included benchmark/dimensioning results and repeatable onboarding documentation; these historical configuration-specific results are not a current service SLA.
True North Map derives this bounded assessment from the cited record. Field: capabilities.1.commercialAvailability. Proposed value: Canadian firms route access through CENGN's expression-of-interest and project-evaluation process; the exact environment, schedule, price and support amount require confirmation.. Source scope: CENGN presents current Canadian living labs for smart mobility and agriculture, connected robotics, advanced agriculture, 5G Advanced, smart buildings and advanced manufacturing, plus a performance testbed. It routes eligible Canadian firms through an expression of interest and project evaluation.
CENGN offers consultant-assisted load, stress, scalability, latency, throughput, resource-utilisation, endurance and security-performance testing on bare-metal and virtual infrastructure. The current page describes 4.5-month projects with three months of datacentre testing. Innovation projects can receive up to $250,000 and customer-linked adoption projects up to $500,000, subject to eligibility and selection. Published eligibility includes a Canadian base, fewer than 500 staff and technology at TRL 4 or above; these conditions describe applicant technology, not a TRL rating for CENGN itself.
