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...

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...

FUTEBOL at Net Futures 2017

On the 28th and 29th of June 2017, was held the NET FUTURES conference, in Brussels. During this conference, Professor Luiz DaSilva, from Trinity College Dublin , gave a talk about "The power of locality: Cloud and fog interplay in an optical/wireless netw...

EUCNC 2017 Participation

From June 12-15, FUTEBOL has participated in the EUCNC conference through several activities: Poster Paper presented by Paulo Marques (IT-Aveiro) in the Poster session of the conference (presenting the use cases and experiments) Talk on 5G Techno-b...