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| Project No. |
Acronym - Title |
| RE5002 |
Q-MED - Quality Network Technology for User-Oriented
Multimedia in the Eastern Mediterranean Region |
| Lead Sector |
Other Sectors |
Start |
End |
Project
Duration |
| RESEARCH |
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1 Dec 1998 |
31 May 2000 |
18 months |
Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated
Results:
Q-MED aims to offer high quality network services to Eastern
Mediterranean countries, and to provide a reliable gateway to the
Trans-European Network infrastructure via a high-speed access to the
TEN-155 network. The introduction of high speed access to TEN-155 from
the region will promote and enhance the co-operation and mutual
understanding among the academic and research communities of all
countries involved. Deployment of these services is planned to start in
December 1998.
Q-MED will enable the participating Mediterranean communities to have
access to scarce expertise, to strengthen the potential to create an
open market, to promote economic and social cohesion, to promote
collaboration between academics and researchers from the Mediterranean
region and Europe thus enabling the formation of collaborative teams,
and contributing to the development of the Euro-Mediterranean
Information Society.
The Q-MED Project will closely co-operate with the QUANTUM Project via
the QUANTUM Test Programme in the trials of products implementing new
protocols for real time multi-media services, as well as the QoS
management inherent in the ATM technology, and will utilise the results
in order to develop real time multi-media services for the
Euro-Mediterranean region.
The main objectives of the Q-MED project are:
- to create a virtual regional network and to provide connectivity to
the TEN-155 service, for Israel and Cyprus;
- to participate in the QUANTUM Test programme;
- to investigate and identify some pilot applications, that will
improve QoS for the region; and
- to promote academic networking within the region, in order to
involve more countries.
The Q-MED Project proposes to deploy a network service from components
selected as a result of tenders for an interim and a full solution.
Major Validation Sites:
| Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| NTUA |
Athens |
Attiki |
GR |
| IUCC |
Tel Aviv |
Israel |
IL |
| UCY |
Nicosia |
Nicosia |
CY |
Other Characteristics of the Project:
Users involved
The main users of the project consist of the academic and research
communities of Israel and Cyprus. |
Technologies and/or approach used
Advanced telecommunications technology based on IP, ATM and a
combination of both technologies will be used, with a specific objective
of testing the ability of the technology to offer predictable Quality of
Service on a multi-vendor network. |
Expected benefits for the citizens
The advances in scientific and industrial research and enhanced
co-operation on a Euro-Mediterranean basis will lead to improvements of
the quality of life of the general population through developments in
such areas as ecology, education, medicine, environment, biological
sciences etc., in view of the coming Information Society. |
Expected benefits for the users of the application
All users will benefit from an effective high performance network
service that will provide reliable, high quality and high throughput
access to the main nodes of the Global Information Infrastructure. Some
users will also be able to exploit interactive multi-media services and
will also be able to develop multi-media applications in an academic
environment. |
Expected benefits for the European Industries
As a result of the project, R&D departments of the region will have the
opportunity to gain a leading position in the area of networking
services and applications. |
Contribution to EU-policies
The project, in co-operation with QUANTUM, supports the overall
collaboration between EU and Mediterranean countries in the fields of
education, technology and research. It will also provide support for a
wide range of academic and research activities, and will determine the
best approaches to supporting such applications by promoting the
introduction of appropriate cost effective networking services with
improved QoS. |
Coordinator:
| Name of Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| DANTE |
Cambridge CB2 1PQ |
UK4 |
UK |
Contact Person from the Coordinating Contractor:
| Title, Forename, Surname |
Mr Howard Davies |
| Address |
Francis House, 112 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1PQ,
UK |
| Telephone |
+44 1223 302992 |
| Fax |
+44 1223 303005 |
| E-mail 1 |
Howard.Davies@dante.org.uk |
| E-mail 2 |
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Other Contractors:
| Code |
Name of Organisation |
City/Town + Postal Code |
Region |
Country |
| C2 |
GRNET |
Athens 115 20 |
GR3 |
GR |
| A2.1 |
NTUA |
Athens 157 80 |
GR3 |
GR |
| C3 |
IUCC |
Tel Aviv |
Tel Aviv |
IL |
| C4 |
UCY |
Nicosia 1678 |
Nicosia |
CY |
| C5 |
INFN/GARR |
Rome 00044 |
IT6 |
IT |
Updated: 30 July 2000 - telematics@terena.nl
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