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...

Citymesh at FUTEBOL’s Plenary Meeting

During the last plenary meeting in Antwerp, Mr. Robin Leblon, which is in charge of the R&D department at Citymesh and nCentric for the last 7 years, gave a talk entitled: "Offshore private LTE networks for wind farms". Citymesh is Belgium's largest...

2019 Plenary Meeting – Antwerp

The FUTEBOL consortium met in "The Beacon", the latest imec facilities in Antwerp from the 22nd to 24th of January 2019. This was the last plenary meeting before the final project's review, check the photos here.

FUTEBOL at ETSI RRS

The FUTEBOL project has been presented at the ETSI RRS#45 meeting in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland by INTEL. The presentation briefly introduced the project charter and uses cases, then focused on the ongoing SAS trials at the VTT testbed in Oulu, Finland, an...