Testbed
CREATE-NET kicked off a testbed in the city of Trento in 2005, the first one located in the Province. The testbed is characterized by an open, service-oriented environment, implemented on a real-life city-wide communication infrastructure where target user groups are integral part of the experimentation.The testbed is intended to support live and innovative interaction among individuals, small-to-medium enterprises and public administration entities. As opposed to most of the service-oriented testbeds, where the network infrastructure itself plays a secondary role, CREATE-NET's testbed is also technologically strong and innovative, spanning the range of the most advanced communications technologies, starting from a metropolitan C/DWDM optical backbone, a (G)MPLS switching/routing platform, a preWiMAX & Wi-Fi wireless distribution/access networks, all the way to sensor networks and technologies for smart spaces.
The testbed provides a Europe-wide distributed experimentation platform through its connections to the Italian R&D network (GARR) and the European research infrastructure (GEANT). The testbed also serves as a model of a community network, currently being delivered for deployment in the Province of Trento with the purpose of fostering competition in the telecom market and promoting industry development, to serve the needs of the public sector, and to provide services to the local community.
This experimental facility is going to be extended toward a provincial-wide testbed through a collaboration with the local government (Autonomous Province of Trento) and the local research institutions (FBK, University of Trento). The new testbed will count on an 800 km fiber infrastructure provided by Trentino Network and will allow the experimentation of Future Internet optical and wireless technologies.
