The Network of the Future : an essential infrastructure for our society

Future Networks Newsflash December 2009 Issue     Future Networks 5th FP7 Concertation Meeting, 26-28 January 2010, Brussels Register now! Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce the registration opening for the Future Networks 5th FP7 Concertation Meeting, which will take place in Brussels from 26 to 28 January 2010. The purpose of the Concertation meeting is to bring together the ongoing FP7 projects funded under the Network of the Future objective to facilitate exchange of results and achievements, and build consensus. In particular, the Concertation Plenary Session on 27 January will bring together for the first time the running Future Networks projects with the new Call 4 projects which will start their activity in 2010. We are confident that you will take full benefit of this opportunity to build fruitful and strong project cooperation for the network research community. We invite you to visit the event website for full details on the programme and finalise your registration before 18 January 2010. We look forward to meeting you in Brussels!   With Best Regards, Rainer Zimmermann Head of Unit for Future Networks European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate General In brief   Future Internet Cluster News ••• Future Internet Cluster Meeting 9 March 2010, Sophia Antipolis, France The meeting will be organised at the ETSI premises in Sophia Antipolis.The meeting will be organised at the ETSI premises in Sophia Antipolis. The topics selected for the meeting are: • Information centric networking • The role of virtualization in future network architectures   Call for Contributions All the projects of the cluster are invited to submit a proposal for a presentation before 18 December 2009. The proposals should be sent to the following mailbox: INFSO-FUTURE-NETWORKS@ec.europa.eu With copy to: paulo.desousa@ec.europa.eu A detailed agenda will be provided once the presentations are selected. !     • • • ETSI Workshop on Future Network Technologies, 10 - 11 March 2010, Sophia Antipolis, France The first phase of EC-funded FP7 research projects on Future Networks is now at a stage where real results are being produced. It is therefore time to consider pre-standardisation or standardisation of some of the results, especially on infrastructure or network technology issues. The key goal of this workshop is to identify potential needs for standardisation or pre-standardisation of Future Network Technologies at ETSI. !
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