Current collaborative activities include the following research partnerships:

• MOU with Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) for Collaborating on Broadband and Optical Networking Research Projects
  
  
  • Enhancing the UCLP System software to interoperate with UPC’s optical network testbed in Barcelona, Spain, known as i2CAT
  • Development of UCLP System V2.0
  • Linking i2CAT and AON Demonstrator programs
• University of Ottawa
  
  
  • Joint development of a User-Controlled Lightpath Provisioning (UCLP) System under CANARIE’s Directed Research Program
  • Next Generation Control and Management for Optical Networks (under the NCIT Program)
  • Performance Testing and Monitoring over NCIT*net
  • Optical Network and IP Traffic (Inter-domain routing using extended BGP, Performance evaluation & enhancement for inter-domain routing)
• Carleton University
  
  
  • Development of network models using VPI modelling environment
• NSERC Research Program "Agile All-Photonics Networks (AAPN)" – Led by McGill University