Unibo Team Leader: Prof. Franco Callegati, Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" – DEI
The BONE-proposal builds on the foundations laid out by the ePhoton/ONe projects in the previous Framework Programme. This Network of Excellence has brought together over several years the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Networks and the BONE-project intends to validate this effort by stimulating a more intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers and building on Virtual Centres of Excellence that can serve to European industry with education and training, research tools and test-labs and pave the way to new technologies and architectures.
The Network of the Future, which is the central theme of this Call, will have to cope with a wide variety of applications running on a wide variety of terminals and with an increasing number of connected devices and increasing speed and data-loads.
The BONE project looks at very large band solutions for the Network of the Future:
- a high capacity, flexible, reconfigurable and self-healing optical Core and Metro network which supports the transport of massive amounts of data
- FTTx solution in which the "x" is as close as possible to the home, at the home, or even in the home. From this point the user is connected using terminal-specific technologies (wireless to handheld devices, fibre to home cinema, wireless to laptop, fixed connection to desktop).
BONE clearly identifies the existence of the current technologies and also recognizes the fact that users also require the mobility of wireless access, but this mobile connection ends at a gateway or access points and from there a fixed connection is required and this fixed connection will finally be an optical link.
Coordinator
INTERDISCIPLINAIR INSTITUUT VOOR BREEDBANDTECHNOLOGIE VZW (Belgium)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" – DEI
- Resp. scientifico: Prof. Franco Callegati
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE CARTAGENA (Spain)
CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA (Spain)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (Austria)
BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM (Hungary)
BILKENT UNIVERSITESI (Turkey)
FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI (Italy)
UNIVERSITY OF WALES SWANSEA (UK)
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA (Italy)
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID (Spain)
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES DEUTCHLAND GMBH (Germany)
POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Poland)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA (Italy)
AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE (Poland)
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (UK)
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (Spain)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" (Italy)
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UK)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN (The Netherlands)
INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES (Portugal)
UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART (Germany)
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (UK)
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Germany)
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (Greece)
GROUPE DES ECOLES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS (France)
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA (Spain)
ERICSSON LIMITED (UK)
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (Denmark)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (UK)
NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (Greece)
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABORATORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (Greece)
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DELLE COMUNICAZIONI E DELLE TECNOLOGIE DELL'INFORMAZIONE (Italy)
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL (Spain)
UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO (Spain)
UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN (Germany)
POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Italy)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN (Germany)
SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET ELEKTROTEHNIKE I RACUNARSTVA (Croatia)
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN (Sweden)
FACULTE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS (Belgium)
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA (Spain)
RESEARCH ACADEMIC COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Greece)
CORITEL - CONSORZIO DI RICERCA SULLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI (Italia)
POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Italy)
TELENOR ASA (Norwey)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE (Italy)
PANEPISTIMIO PELOPONNISOU EIDIKOS LOGARIASMOS KONDILION EREVNAS (Greece)
FRANCE TELECOM SA (France)
Start date 01/01/2008
End date 31/12/2010
Duration 36 months
Project cost 4.79 Million Euro
Project Funding 3.75 Million Euro
Subprogramme Area Network of the Future
Contract type Networks of Excellence