INFINITY

Project Objectives

The INFINITY (INfrastructures for the Future Internet commuNITY) project was a Support Action focused on capacity building and infrastructure support. The goal of the project was to leverage existing investments to support advanced experiments demonstrating the versatility of the FI-PPP Core Platform across a multiplicity of heterogeneous environments and use cases.

Through collaboration with organisations across Europe, we captured and communicated information about available infrastructures and interoperability requirements and issues. We documented usage-related operational constraints, identified and fostered federation opportunities that could facilitate large scale experimentation and testing, taking into account social, economic and technological issues.

The INFINITY project developed and maintained a dynamic innovative repository called XiPi, which provides an on-line catalogue of Future Internet infrastructures. Through a collaborative Web-based approach, it describes infrastructures as a 'living organism' and brings together the two key aspects of FI-PPP projects: the infrastructures and the applications. XiPi facilitates the creation of a sustainable 'market' where infrastructure owners and operators can market and advertise capability and capacity that can meet users' demands. Similarly, users can publicise their application scenario and experiments developed on one or more infrastructures present in the repository.

We produced a series of recommendations, roadmaps, tactical actions and strategies to enhance the potential for the identified infrastructures to participate in the trialling of FI-PPP Use Cases as the Programme progresses.