Thought Leadership event, NG-CDI series: Professor Nicolas Race on "Next Generation Converged Digital Infrastructure (NG-CDI)"

1st in a series on "NG-CDI: Next Generation Converged Digital Infrastructure" 

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Video replay: NG-CDI Archive

Prof Nicolas Race

Date: 7th October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00

Speaker: Professor Nicolas Race, Network Systems, University of Lancaster. Principal Investigator for NG-CDI.

Introduced by: Stephen Cassidy. System Science, BT Applied Research.

Title: "Next Generation Converged Digital Infrastructure (NG-CDI)"

The UK’s Digital Infrastructure is critical to the commercial and social activities and success of the country. It is essential that this infrastructure continues to be world leading. To keep ahead we need an infrastructure which responds quickly to changing needs, and at minimum cost. 

Stephen Cassidy

The creativity of the whole ecosystem will give rise to opportunities that we cannot predict. This means that services need to be configured in software rather than hardware to reduce the barriers to experimentation and scaling. Distributed autonomic technologies offer the opportunity to manage the expanding scale and complexity, and support faster ways to assess opportunities and risks, make decisions, and simplify service delivery. The operation of such an infrastructure will require new skills, cultures and practices.

Nick introduced and described the research underway to deliver these aims. He described the approaches being taken and how the different aspect of the architecture fit together.