The Intelligent Network Platform of the Anhui Institute of Artificial Intelligence. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The Intelligent Network Platform of the Anhui Institute of Artificial Intelligence is dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence technology with cyberspace.

The platform includes a 1,000-square-meter operating and management center, a 600-sq-m cloud data center, and the CENI (China Environment for Network Innovations ) Hefei facility.

CENI is an important part of the national future network experiment infrastructure and an incubation platform for scientific research innovation in the future network field.

CENI-Hefei officially opened on Jan 29. It can provide NDN test services and will gradually open services like edge computing test services, drone swarm test services, as well as blockchain test services.

Test users can now register on CENI-Hefei, describe their test requirements for resources, and then apply for resources, start the test when the required resources are met, as well as analyze the test results after the test is over.

The Intelligent Network Platform also has two major pieces of equipment: a reconfigurable high-throughput smart network detector and a smart network core switch, iSwitch, which integrates sensing, computing, as well as storage.