Fed4FIRE

Experimentally-driven research is considered to be a key factor for growing the European Internet industry.

In order to enable this type of RTD activities, a number of projects for building a European facility for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) have been launched, each project targeting a specific community within the Future Internet ecosystem. Through the federation of these infrastructures, innovative experiments become possible that break the boundaries of these domains.

Besides, infrastructure developers can utilize common tools of the federation, allowing them to focus on their core testbed activities. Recent projects have already successfully demonstrated the advantages of federation within a community. The Fed4FIRE project implemented the next step in these activities by successfully federating across the community borders and offering openness for future extensions.

Fed4FIRE became the largest federation of testbeds in Europe, one of many examples of how IT Innovation has been helping build the Future Internet through FIRE.

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