PII

PII – Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds. The PII project uses the concept of European innovation clusters and builds on the existing testbeds that are supporting scientific and technological endeavour within these clusters. The central objective of PII is to create a testbed federation among these regional innovation clusters in Europe. This will enable companies participating in these clusters to test new communication services and applications across Europe. The testbed federation includes four core innovation clusters and three satellite clusters.

PII will develop and deploy effective mechanisms and technologies to enable a functioning federation of existing testbeds. This will provide added value to users of existing local testbeds, and it will prove that federation is a model for the establishment of a long-term sustainable, large-scale and diverse testing infrastructure for (tele‑)communications technologies, services and applications in Europe.

PII's testbed federation infrastructure will build on the legal, operational, and technical framework developed by the Panlab support action in FP6.

Link: www.panlab.net

Coordinator: Anastasius Gavras