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...

Project brochure

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Newsletter #6

The new Newsletter has just arrived! Find out what has been happening in the FUTEBOL Project in the past months! Check it out HERE!