Project Description FEDERICA
Project I3 funded by the 7th EU R&D Framework Programme (contract RI-213107)
- Web
- http://www.fp7-federica.eu
- Start date
- 01/01/2008
- End date
- 30/06/2010
- Duration
- 30 months
- Total budget
- €5 million (European funding: €3.7 million)
- Persons/month
- 465 (equivalent to 15.5 persons on a full-time basis during the project)
- Participants
- 20 entities
Academic and research networks – GARR (IT – co-ordinator), Red.es/RedIRIS (ES), DFN (DE), FCCN (PT), CESNET (CZ), GRNET (GR), HEAnet (IE), PSCN (PL), SWITCH (CH), NIIF/HUNGARNET (HU), NORDUnet (Scandinavian networks – DK), DANTE (co-ordinator Géant2 – UK), TERENA (European Association of Academic Networks – NL)
Public and private R&D entities – i2CAT (ES), UPC (ES), KTH (SE), ICCS (GR), Polito (IT), Juniper Networks (IE), Martel (CH)
- Activities
- NA (Networking Activities) - Includes project management and co-ordination (NA1), identification of user groups and their needs (NA2); interaction with standardisation entities and other projects (NA3) and dissemination and training (NA4)
SA (Service Activities) – Includes infrastructure deployment support (SA1) and user support and tool development for the project (SA2)
JRA (Joint Research Activities) – Includes new network management and control developments (JRA1) and new Internet architecture and infrastructure user control paradigms (JRA2)