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Project

FEDERICA

Title Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing Network Architectures
Grant Agreement Number 213107
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 31/12/2007 - 31/10/2010
Project URL http://www.fp7-federica.eu
Scientific Domain e-Infrastructures
Activity Deployment of e-Infrastructures for scientific communities
Action Line ICT-based e-Infrastructures
Transnational Access Not indicated
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA-PP
Abstract The FEDERICA project has the following main objectives: - Support research experiments on new Internet architectures and protocols, - Create a versatile, scalable, European wide "technology agnostic" infrastructure, separated from the production networks, but with the possibility to interoperate, - Be open to host researchers hardware and applications, FEDERICA adopt the paradigm that "the infrastructure is the network". The traditional model of core and edges is replaced by a quasi-homogeneous network, where each node is defined according to its functions, rather than through its position and the logical and node functions topology can be easily changed. The infrastructure can be adapted to whatever the user wants it to be. Particular features are: - Simultaneous use by more than one research group, - Availability of the infrastructure for Call1 Network of the Future and Call2 FIRE, - Exploiting the excellent networking facilities that are available in Europe. The project will network, in terms of: - Facilitating technical discussion amongst specialist, - Providing preliminary information and results for the next generation of the NREN networks, and link with GEANT2 and as a pre-experimental phase for GEANT3, - Contributing with real test case and results to standardization bodies, e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF, IPsphere. Research will be undertaken to: - Understand and produce initial solutions on management and control of distributed, parallel, virtual networks which may communicate between them and with the general Internet, - Develop experience and a model for managing and using virtual infrastructures as a combination of networks and systems, - Open the infrastructure to any "application" type (application can be a test), - Use, test and advance the tools and services being developed by GN2, NRENs and partners, in particular for end-to-end services, - Enable the graceful implementation of new inter-domain service layer.
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK, Poland
NORDUNET A/S, Denmark
POLITECNICO DI TORINO, Italy
MARTEL GMBH, Switzerland
JUNIPER NETWORKS IRELAND LIMITED, Ireland
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA, Spain
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Greece
TRANS-EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATION, Netherlands
SWITCH -TELEINFORMATIKDIENSTE FUER LEHRE UND FORSCHUNG, Switzerland
ENTIDAD PUBLICA EMPRESARIAL RED.ES, Spain
NEMZETI INFORMACIOS INFRASTRUKTURA FEJLESZTESI IRODA, Hungary
FUNDACAO PARA A COMPUTACAO CIENTIFICA NACIONAL - FCCN, Portugal
VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG EINES DEUTSCHEN FORSCHUNGSNETZES DFN VEREIN E.V., Germany
CESNET ZAJMOVE SDRUZENI PRAVNICKYCH OSOB, Czech Republic
FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA, Spain
HEANET LTD, Ireland
DELIVERY OF ADVANCED NETWORK TECHNOLOGY TO EUROPE LIMITED, United Kingdom
TA Call Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing Network Architectures