FUTEBOL – Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory

Goals

To develop and deploy research infrastructure, and an associated control framework for experimentation, in Europe and Brazil, that enables experimental research at the convergence point between optical and wireless networks.

Facilities

Facilitates co-design of wireless and optical networks

$ 10B market for NFV, SDN, virtualization in 2015
$ 1.5T value IoT will add to the economy by 2019
$ 2.7B small cell market by 2017

Research infrastructure providers

Operate optical and wireless testbeds: TCD, UNIVBRIS, VTT, UFRGS, UFMG, UFES
Develop converged control framework for optical/wireless experiments

End users

Define the requirements of the testbed facilities and showcases
Shape the research agenda and establish a path for exploitation

Researchers and demonstration developers

Design and implement showcases
Conduct experimental research on the Federated Infrastructure

Welcome to the future!

The EU-BR FUTEBOL project envisages the creation of a federated control framework to integrate testbeds from Europe and Brazil for network researchers form academia/industry with unprecedented features. Our major goal is to allow the access to advanced experimental facilities in Europe and Brazil for research and education across the wireless and optical domains. To accomplish this, we will dev...

Open Call for Experimentation

The FUTEBOL project launched today its open call. This call is addressed to anyone interested to use the methodologies and tools that have been developed within the FUTEBOL project, in order to conduct original research in networking and telecommunications, ...

FUTEBOL Presentation at Universidad Privada Domingo Savio – Bolivia

Professor Johhan M-Barja gave a seminar about 5G Future Networks in the “Universidad Privada Domingo Savio” in Sucre, Bolivia. During that occasion, he presented the FUTEBOL project to staff and students. Also the upcoming Open Call was also promoted, raisi...

Futebol at Cloudscape Brazil 2017

The Cloudscape Brazil was performed during the 5th of July of 2017. Within this event, the FUTEBOL project was represented by M.D. Marcelo Marotta during the first pitch session, with the presentation: "Lessons learned from the development of a Federated Uni...