1. 1 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting The Broadband For All Cluster Business & Economics Technology & Applications Policy & Regulatory/Legal Social & Cultural

2. 2 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting BB for All - Strategic Objectives To develop the network technologies and architectures allowing a generalised availability of broadband access to European users, including those in less developed regions. With a focus on: Next Generation Networks and Internet Access networks Core networks

3. 3 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Technology & Applications Technology Trends: Overview of leading technologies for (mainly) Access Networks and Core Networks Convergence and Interoperability: Physical Layer Network Layer Open Issues: Relationship with NGNs (NP, SP, SC separation) Security New protocols QoS

4. 4 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting BS PS VDSL Passive Splitter Access Network (D)WDM, IP/MPLS (E)PON FTTB DSL UMTS Pico/Micro Cells UMTS Macro Cells Private customers & SOHOs High density housing estates with large blocks of apartments Private customers & SOHOs Low density housing estates with small (single family) houses FTTC Point-to-Point Link Metro Network DWDM IP/MPLS, MPlS 10/40Gbps/ ring / meshed Global / WAN 10/40Gbps/ meshed 10Gbps/ downstream up to 2.5 Gbps/ upstream ONT BSONT BSONT 10 GE Public Area WLAN (IEEE 802.11x) WLAN/UMTS Roaming Large Enterprises Enterprises CustomerPremises Technology Trends Satellite and HAPs

5. 5 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Business & Economics Technological considerations: Infrastructure costs Price of mobility Cost benefits of scale (convergence) vs niche solutions Cost of bandwidth vs processing vs memory Reducing the digital divide New business models (the NGN approach)

6. 6 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Policy & Regulatory / Legal Lisbon Strategy EU: Largest knowledge-based economy by 2010 Broadband access, e-business, e-government, e-health,... Other policies Single Market, Single Currency, Security of Europeans, Sustainable Development,... ERA: European Research Area FP6, Eureka, COST, National Programmes … towards a single market for research Enlargement Candidate countries are full partners in FP6

7. 7 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Social & Cultural An Information Society for all: Educating Governments and society in general (developed and developing nations) Promoting Broadband Content, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning, eBusiness Collectively encouraging the availability of broadband access at affordable prices (digital inclusion) Informing on current Broadband status, developments both regional & worldwide and the expected evolution (Roadmap") Raising awareness on information security and privacy Fostering links to (eg.) Russia, Brazil, Japan

8. 8 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Expected Added-value Information sharing (standards, events, press releases, national initiatives, world news, …) Testbed sharing Joint experiments Joint workshops, conferences Consensus on Broadband for All deployment

9. 9 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting BB4All Projects TITLEINSTRUMENTBRIEF DESCRIPTION ACENoEAntenna system level aspects ATHENASTREPDigital Switchover. Developing Infrastructures for Broadband Access BREADCABroadband in Europe for All: a Multi-Disciplinary Approach BROADWANSTREPBroadband services for everyone over fixed wireless access networks CAPANINASTREPCommunications from Aerial Platform Networks delivering Broadband Communications for All COCOMBINESSACompetition Contents and Broadband for the Internet in Europe DIADEM FIREWALLSTREPDistributed Adaptive Security by Programmable Firewall DIADOLOSIPIPv6-oriented, including B3G and security issues E-PHOTON/OneNoEOrganised into optical departments and projects Euro NGINoEDesign and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet Towards convergent multi-service networks FLEXINETSTREPFlexible Network Architecture for Access Networks

10. 10 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting TITLEINSTRUMENTBRIEF DESCRIPTION GANDALFSTREPGbit/s Access Network using remote Delivery opticAL Feeder for heterogeneous broadband wireless and wireline nodes LASAGNESTREPAll-optical label swapping employing optical logic gates in network nodes MESCALFP5Interdomain QoS in IP Networks through Traffic Engineering MOMECAMonitoring and Measurement Cluster MUSEIPMulti Service Access Everywhere NOBELIPNext generation Optical network for Broadband in Europe OBANSTREPOpen Broadband Access Networks OPERAIPOpen PLC European Research Alliance for new generation PLC Integrated Network SATLIFESTREP SEINITSTREPSecurity U-BROADSTREPUltra High Bit Rate Over Copper Technologies for BROADband Multiservice Access BB4All Projects (contd.)

11. 11 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Optical Core Network Technologies Broadband Access Technologies Areas Addressed by Projects Fibre, GMPLS, optical control FTTx, PLC, Copper, Cable, WLAN, FWA, HAPs, Satellite Routers, Switches, BRAS, Aggregators OTNs, OADMs Convergence and Interoperability: NGI Protocols, IP Everywhere (IP transport, control & routing) Network- and Service- Management (includes QoS, Security) Monitoring and Measurement Economics of the Internet

12. 12 9 March 2004 Broadband for All Concertation Meeting Project Assignment Optical Core Network Technologies Broadband Access Technologies NOBEL (IP) LASAGNE Monitoring and Measurement Economics of the Internet Network- and Service- Management Convergence and Interoperability OPERA (IP) MUSE (IP) ATHENA BROADWAN U-BROAD OBAN EURO-NGI (NoE) CAPANINA DIADOLOS FLEXINET DIAGEM BREAD (CA) MOME (CA) COCOMBINE (SSA) E-PHOTON (NoE), SATLIFE ACE (NoE), GANDALF MESCAL, SEINIT