Wavefront and BCNET advance wireless innovation

Wavefront, a Vancouver-based Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) has partnered with BCNET, British Columbia's high-capacity, advanced fibre optic network, to accelerate the commercialization of wireless innovation through BCNET's Network Exchange network services project. The partnership will give companies network peering connections to researchers to advance capabilities in cloud computing and network virtualization. Wavefront's participation was enabled by funding from CANARIE's Digital Accelerator for Research and Innovation, which established a direct fibre optic connection between the two organizations….