PREMIUM IP CLUSTER
AQUILA as project IST-1999-10077 in Key Action IV, Action line 1.1.2.-4.2.3, participates in the IST NGN Topical Working Group «Internet Infrastructure» in order to
exchange information between projects of same or similar Action Lines,
avoid overlapping work and to reach consensus in future activities,
use this consensus in order to contribute to standards bodies or fora like ETSI, IETF, Internet2 etc. with much broader support,
provide platform for co-operation in development and trials,
discuss and disseminate projects results.
   
 

"Premium IP Cluster" projects are : AQUILA, CADENUS, TEQUILA, and from Nov. 2002 MESCAL.

The three projects AQUILA, CADENUS and TEQUILA produced a Joint Deliverable "IST Premium IP Cluster", containing a brief description of the three projects in terms of objectives, architecture, service and resource management, the common goal of the Premium IP cluster projects as well as differences and their complementary approaches. The Excecutive Summary can be found here. The document can be downloaded here (1,498,081 Byte)

Project reviews by the European Commission are held about every six months. A first joint review took place in Nice, France, November 9-10, 2000.
Further reviews were organized in

  • Anacapri, Isola di Capri, Italy, April 3-5, 2001
  • Dresden, Germany, November 21-23, 2001
  • Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 14-16, 2002
  • Florence, Italy, November 21-22, 2002

Before these joint reviews a common workshop (restricted to project participants) took place with presentations coming from these and invited projects. See also Publication & Conferences.

The most recent joint workshop and review took place in Florence, Italy, November 21-22, 2002. Please see the Review Information. The workshop and review was for project participants only.

 

  
 

Further IST projects dealing with related issues:

QoSIPS, M3I, SEQUIN, MOICANE, DepAuDE, LONG, WINE, BASS, BRAIN, 6INIT, GCAP, PROXiTV, MANTRIP etc. (tbe - to be extended)
   
 

For further concerted actions of the projects AQUILA, CADENUS & TEQUILA on standardization issues (IETF draft on Service Level Specification) see also Standardization Activities.


Information about Concertation:

Information about Concertation Mechanism for IST projects can be found in
"Concertation in Next Generation Networks", a web page of CEC Unit INFSO E1.
It contains also links to additional valuable information in the area of Next Generation Networks.
   
  Modification: 04/04/2003, Bert F. Koch, © 2000-2003, AQUILA consortium