CANARIE - ORAN Programs

Round 1 (OIP-1)
    Launched: 31 March 2009
    Status: Closed

Round 2 (OIP-2)
    Launched: February 2011
    Status: Closed

The purpose of the ORAN Infrastructure Program is to provide funding support to the ORANs to further develop their research network capabilities. Projects approved for funding under the OIP program were selected through a competitive process. All project proposals were reviewed relative to the mandatory criteria, the evaluation criteria, and the ability to contribute to CANARIE’s objectives as defined in the current funding agreement with Industry Canada. Evaluation of proposals relative to these criteria constituted the basis for the decision whether or not a project received CANARIE funding. Projects that failed to meet the criteria, or failed to meet such criteria to an acceptable degree, could not be funded.

Following are the criteria against which proposals to the OIP were evaluated:

Mandatory Criteria required by CANARIE’s Funding Agreement:

i. The project must be based on a viable funding model;
ii. The applicants must be capable of undertaking the project;
iii. The project must lead to infrastructure or other results that will be ongoing after CANARIE
     funding terminates;
iv. The lead applicant must be a Canadian corporation or other legally recognized Canadian entity;
v. The project must be technically sound and methodologically feasible; and
vi. CANARIE funding must be required to deliver the results of the project or to ensure the
     timeliness of the delivery.