Summary of PPI-related activities
Project partners initiated the dialogue with market vendors (signed NDAs) and received technical information about roadmaps of ADVA, CISCO, CORIANT, ECI Telecom, Lumentum, CzechLight and Huawei. As a direct outcome of this activity, the final version of the database for high-tech R&D roadmap has been prepared, concluded with Deliverable D2.7. Moreover, thanks to active participation to well-known conferences and exhibitions project partners established links with younger companies addressing recently identified gaps in the networking field. An example of such a small company is Talaia working in a field of network security detection and threat mitigation.
Summary of PCP-related activities
Project Partners prepared the framework and procedures for running PCP activities by public network operators. The analysis of alternative types (to the PCP) of procurement procedures have been performed. The partners concentrated on major technical challenges that the European NREN community is facing nowadays, based on feedback from their users and customers. The description of these challenges has been performed in a technology neutral fashion since, up to now, there has been no mature technology that can fully address them. Moreover, Project Partners performed the exercise with the PCP proof-of-concept implementation, following the well-defined PCP procedures described in Deliverable D2.2 as well as guidelines received from the independent PCP expert hired in the project. The work done has been reported in Deliverable D2.3 and provides an explanation of procedures developed in COMPLETE to formulate a PCP project and, in particular, an instantiation of a new PCP project within the NREN community.
Project exploitation strategy
The project's exploitation strategy will be based on practical implementation of the COMPLETE Framework after the project end. Partners of the consortium claim they would like to further explore opportunities for public institutions arising from the EC calls for PCP / PPI projects. The COMPLETE Framework and PCP procedures are specifically designed for the public operators' community, therefore the project partners believe the adoption of procedures in potential follow-ups of the project will be a natural way to exploit the project results. On the one hand, the COMPLETE project created an opportunity for the consortium partners to strengthen the cooperation and collaboration, which may result in a future PCP/PPI project. On the other hand, the COMPLETE project opened the floor for discussion with other public network operators, NRENs among the others, but also regional public network providers.
