Broadband Access Satellite Enabled Education – BASE2

BASE2 is an FP6/SPACE project having as overall objective the implementation of an end-to-end system for tele-education applications, integrating broadband terrestrial networks with satellite broadband technologies. Tele-education services are provided to: a) remote, distributed and isolated rural areas and b) maritime users.

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Broadband eServices and Access for the Home – BReATH

BReATH is an FP6/SSA having as main objective to stimulate and support the transfer of know-how and best practices in planning and delivering broadband services to the EU New Member States and Associated Candidate Countries.

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Computers in the Human Interaction Loop – CHIL

CHIL is an FP6/IP having as main objective to develop and explore a fundamental shift in the way we use computers. In contrast to building machines that have to be operated directly and explicitly (by keying in commands), CHIL realizes computer services that are delivered to humans in an implicit, indirect and unobtrusive way.

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European Learning Grid Infrastructure – EleGI

ELeGI is an FP6/IP having as main objective to design, implement and validate a pedagogy driven, GRID-based service oriented software architecture for supporting ubiquitous, collaborative, experiential based and contextualised learning approaches in dynamic Virtual Communities.

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Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure for European Research - PHOSPHORUS

Phosphorus is an FP6/IP that will address some of the key technical challenges to enable on-demand e2e network services across multiple domains. The Phosphorus network concept and test-bed will make applications aware of their complete Grid resources (computational and networking) environment and capabilities, and able to make dynamic, adaptive and optimized use of heterogeneous network infrastructures connecting various high-end resources.

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Optical Networks: Towards Bandwidth Manageability and Cost Efficiency – ePhoton/ONe+

ePhoton/ONe+ is an FP6/NoE that aims at integrating and focusing the rich know-how available in Europe on optical communication and networks. The NoE works towards reaching consensus on the engineering choices for the deployment of cost-effective optical technologies as the foundation for the future Internet, with the strong intention to provide valuable inputs to the standardization bodies and guidelines to the operators, as well as competitive feedback to European telecom equipment manufacturers.

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Reconfigurable Systems for Mobile Local Communication and Positioning –RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION is an FP6/STREP having as main objective to develop a wireless three-dimensional (3-D) local positioning system with measurement accuracy in the centimetre regime and real-time ability. A novel frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar principle with pulsed active reflector is employed. This advanced local position radar (ALPR) will be implemented on basis of common WLAN systems.

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Transparent Ring Interconnection Using Multi-wavelength PHotonic switches - TRIUMPH

TRIUMPH is an FP6/STREP having as main objective to provide Transparent Ring Interconnection Using Multi-wavelength PHotonic switches and processing to significantly increase the network functionality and capacity. The proposed scenario refers to a high capacity network with transparent connectivity between core/regional-metro rings supporting up to 160Gb/s and metro-access rings supporting up to 40Gbit/s. The required functionality in such architecture will be provided through an optical switching node located at the interconnection points between rings.

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COST 288 Nanoscale and Ultrafast Photonics

The primary objective of this COST action is to advance the application of ultrafast nanophotonics to provide high capacity photonic communication infrastructures, as well as to bring forward advanced research on novel topics such as advanced optical signal processing and optical logic, microwave photonics and exploratory technologies (based on nanophotonics) such as quantum communications.

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Project COST 291 - Towards Digital Optical Networks

The primary objective of this COST action is to focus on novel network concepts and architectures exploiting the features and properties of photonic technologies, to enable future telecommunications networks. It is aiming to propose a new generation of systems and networks that will accommodate the unpredictable and growing size of data files and messages exchanged and stored as well as real time services (e.g. voice, video etc) over global distances requiring an agile Communication Grid supporting quality services.