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The overall objective of the FUTEBOL project is to develop and deploy research infrastructure, and an\u00a0associated control framework for experimentation, in Europe and Brazil, that enables experimental\u00a0research at the convergence point between optical and wireless networks.<\/p>\n
Great progress has been made in the past few years on the development of federated telecommunications\u00a0research infrastructure in Europe, through the FIRE program. More recently, the FIBRE project enabled fiber optical interconnection of research facilities in Europe and Brazil. However, telecommunications research\u00a0remains largely segregated between optical networks and wireless systems, and rarely do researchers cross\u00a0the boundary between the two. We argue that the needs of future telecommunication systems, be it from high\u00a0data rate applications in smart mobile devices, machine-type communications and the Internet of Things\u00a0(IoT), or backhaul requirements brought about from cell densification, require the co-design of the wireless\u00a0access and the optical backhaul and backbone. FUTEBOL aims at developing a converged control\u00a0framework for experimentation on wireless and optical networks and to deploy this framework in federated\u00a0research facilities on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
The infrastructure and control framework created in FUTEBOL will be federated according to principles\u00a0developed in the FIRE program and facilities in the two continents interconnected through infrastructure\u00a0deployed by the FIBRE project.<\/p>\n