Involvement in the European R&D scene
Martel has been a major player in Europe's collaborative communications research and development programmes. We are mainly involved in the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, and played a key role in its predecessor, the ACTS programme. In many of these projects we have supplied skilled, specialised resources to augment the in-house resources that larger companies already have available. |
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In the 7th EC Framework Programme, Martel provides technical and management expertise for a number of projects (some recently finished, others ongoing):
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The NANODATACENTERS project -enabling a distributed hosting edge infrastructure which allows more energy efficient content delivery of interactive services and applications. |
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The 6DEPLOY project and the 6DEPLOY-2 project - support the deployment of IPv6 in: e-Infrastructure environments, FP7 projects, developing countries, and more-commercial environments in Europe. |
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The FEDERICA project - research to implement an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies. |
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The GEYSERS project - specify and develop mechanisms that allow infrastructure providers to partition their resources (optical network and/or IT), compose specific logical infrastructures and offer them as a service to network operators. Geysers will specify and develop a Network Control Plane for the optical infrastructure, by extending standard solutions (ASON/GMPLS and PCE), able to couple optical network connectivity and IT services automatically and efficiently, and provide them in one step, dynamically and on-demand, including infrastructure re-planning mechanisms.
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The NOVI project (Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures) - research concentrates on efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service.
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The SCAMPI project - develops the technical solutions for a service platform in mobile and pervasive opportunistic networks. SCAMPI will extend the concept of opportunistic networking to the concept of opportunistic resource usage, thus allowing users not only to simply communicate, but also to use complex services in spite of long disconnections and severe partitions of the network.
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The FIGARO project - coordination across different IT, telecom, and media sectors as well as services and user-centric content from other sectors, such as utility (energy, water, etc.), e-health care and security in order to interconnect them and ultimately to enable collaboration among them. Redesign of Internet network architecture to support the users' need to create, store, find, access and deliver digital content regardless of its location and to support the increasing demands and new requirements of the above mentioned sectors. |
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The FIRESTATION project - provides the globally known FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative with an active hub that matches, guides and co-ordinates demand for - and offering of - experimentation facilities in the context of future networks and services. The purpose of FIRE STATION is to join forces to allow for the most efficient bilateral (and multilateral when and if appropriate) collaboration, reduce duplication of work, share experiences and best practices and work for the future of experimental research. |
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The main challenge for the INFINITY project is to establish an approach that can quickly engage with infrastructure owners and application developers Europe-wide, building as far as possible on existing data, information, projects and programmes, to create a new, useful and valuable repository of infrastructure capability and capacity that relates need to opportunity and facilitates the creation of an international community that can collaborate to deliver the Future Internet. |
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The Haggle project - exploring networking for mobile users using local peer-to-peer wireless connections as well as infrastructure-based Internet access, when available. |
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The EuQoS project – researching, integrating, testing, validating and demonstrating end-to-end QoS technologies to support the infrastructure upgrade for advanced QoS-aware applications over multiple, heterogeneous network domains, belonging to research, scientific and industrial communities. |
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The 6DISS project - promoting the widespread adoption of IPv6 by providing IPv6 training and knowledge transfer in developing regions. It is also establishing contacts with networking personnel and organisations in these regions, in order to encourage cooperation and possible future participation in European R&D activities. |
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The “Forum for Public Safety Communication Europe” is facilitating consensus building in the area of public safety communication and information management systems. This Forum invites users, policy makers, industry (technology and service providers), research organizations and standardization bodies within public safety communication and information management systems to take part in this important initiative. |
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In the 5th Framework programme, Martel provided technical and management expertise for:
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The CADENUS project - investigating Service Level Agreements for Premium IP services. |
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The SHUFFLE project - dealing with agent technology for resource management in 3G networks. |
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The NGN Initiative - a strategic forum-like activity that works with similar initiatives in the USA and Japan to encourage the deployment of next generation networks in the home, access network and core. |
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The 6NET project - building and operating a dedicated international IPv6 network, based on a central core of European cities and gradually extending within Europe and to North America and the Asia Pacific region. |
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The FlexWork project - promoting new ways of flexible working for small to medium sized companies in remote rural regions around Europe. |
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The CRUMPET project - trialling tourism-related value-added services for nomadic users (across mobile and fixed networks), using agent technology. |
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The SAFEGUARD project - to enhance the dependability and survivability of Large Complex Critical Infrastructures, such as distributed electricity and telecommunication networks. |
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In the ACTS programme, Martel provided technical and project management expertise for major players in a wide range of projects. These included the management of test beds, research into new communications techniques in the core and access networks, the use of agent technologies in communications and explaining the results of ACTS to major companies and organisations around Europe. |
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