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IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) is an independent research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. It brings together companies, authorities, and non-profit organizations to join forces on research projects. Both technical and non-technical issues are addressed within each of these projects.
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Ghent University, abbreviated to UGent, is one of the major universities in the Dutch-speaking region of Europe. It distinguishes itself as a socially committed and pluralistic university in a broad international perspective.
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Centrally located in Europe and easily accessible, the city of Ghent combines the comfort of a vibrant city with the cosiness of a small town.
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Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users.
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ZapFi NV, based in Bruges, Belgium is a leading technology company specialized in the installation and commercialization of city-wide WIFI networks and acts as an incubator for new wireless services and solutions.
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LEONI is a global supplier of wires, optical fibers, cables and cable systems as well as related development services for applications in the automotive business and other industries.
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Started in 1998 as a spin-off company of the internationally recognised Department of Information Technology (Intec) of Ghent University, Comsof keeps in close touch with the state-of-the-art in ICT. They provide consultancy services and develop customised and dedicated software solutions for the telecommunications and multimedia industry.
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FITCE - the Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community - is an international organisation, which for over 40 years has served the needs of its members, originally in the telecommunications industry, but now including the whole of the ICT Industry.
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The FTTH Council Europe believes that the development and deployment of fibre based broadband access networks will enhance the quality of life for European citizens and provide the European countries with an infrastructure that will allow its companies to increase their effectiveness within the global marketplace. The council’s charter is to educate European governments, policymakers and political leaders on why and how high speed fibre connectivity can be delivered to all European citizens within the next years.
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The Belgian Broadband Platform is a non for profit organisation that promotes broadband networking in Belgium. Its interest field encompass all aspects of broadband networking services and technologies, both in the wired and wireless worlds.
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The IEEE Communications Society is community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. To that end, the Society sponsors publications, conferences, educational programs, local activities, and technical committees.
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IEEE Benelux Section represents the world's largest technical professional society for Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.The Benelux Section, with more than 3000 members, has several local Chapters of IEEE Societies, organizes and supports local events, has liaisons with local professional societies, and much more.
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The goal of the COST ISO605 Econ@Tel project is to develop a strategic research, training network among key people/organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics, to support related R&D-initiatives, and to provide guidelines, recommendations to European players (end-users, enterprises, operators, regulators, policy makers, content providers) for the provision of new converged broadband, wireless, content delivery networks to citizens and enterprises.
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BONE (Building the Future Optical Network in Europe) is a Network of Excellence (NoE) funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Program (FP7). Through the establishment of Virtual Centres of Excellence, the BONE-project looks into the future and builds and supports the final “Network of the Future”. The key goal of BONE is strengthening of the European research on optical networking through integration and collaboration amongst the different research groups involved in the Virtual Centres of Excellence.
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OASE (Optical Access Seamless Evolution) is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Program (FP7). Focusing on European requirements, OASE will address the challenges of developing an optimised multi-terabit next-generation optical access (NGOA) architecture that will span at least 100km and serve Gbit/s services to a minimum of 1000 customers.
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The IBBT ICON TERRAIN (Techno-Economic Research for futuRe Access Infrastructure Networks) project will focus on optimizing the cooperation between all actors involved in the rollout of new telecom and other utility networks, and to align operational processes in a more consistent way.
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Chorus+ is a European Coordination Action which aims at creating the conditions of mutual information and cross fertilisation between the European projects dealing with Multimedia Content Search Engines.
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