FP7-ICT challenge 1

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

Description

Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructures
Information technology and telecommunications
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Sujets

• Information technology
• Innovation
• Communications system
• Service
• Informatique
• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 24
• Langue: Español

Extrait

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FP - ICT Challenge  Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures logies

Why it’s important

Europe is on the brink of a technological revolution with the potential to deliver a bonanza of new economic opportunities. Over the next  years, advanced network and service infrastructures will open the door to a variety of new networked applications, costing less to build and run. To reap full benefit from these opportunities, Europe’s current inter- net, mobile, fixed and broadcasting networks must progress, together with the related software and service infrastructu- res. Fortunately,thanks to existing strengths in communica- tions equipment, devices, networks and e-services, Europe is well placed in the world-wide race to define and develop the secure networks, software and service infrastructures of the future.

Where do we stand?

ere are now almost three billion mobile users and more than one billion Internet users. Fuelled by digital conver- gence, current network and service technologies have progressed dramatically. Convergence reconciles the

worlds of video, audio, data and voice communication services, uniting them under a common technological umbrella. Voice- and media content-over Internet are the most obvious examples of convergence, but others, like mobile G TV and Next Generation Networks (NGN), are taking o fast. ese developments have paved the way for the rst wave of pervasive communications systems. We are currently moving beyond classic networking sys- tems, based on user-terminal interaction.Smart devices now communicate seamlessly with one another, by-pas- sing the need for direct human intervention. e trend today is towards increasing device connectivity, thereby permitting the emergence of the «Internet of things». Increasing interconnection of devices like sensors and RFIDs are changing the way we do business, controlling our environments and providing an ever wider variety of networked services. Such environments will be supported with dynamic and smart, soware-based service platforms. ey will ena- ble the emergence of advanced services, and varieties of networked applications that can adapt to a multiplicity of contexts and environments, for either public or private purposes. In parallel, the importance of networked com- munities of users is rapidly growing, as exemplied with the rapid take up of Web ..

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