This task aims at the development of the local and federated technology pilots and the validation of the developed local and federated FIBRE facilities through showcases, which have been pre-selected from a number of use cases. The development activities follow a common process based on the requirements analysis of all the pre-defined use cases and the detailed design of the local and federated facilities carried out in WP2, WP3 and WP4. The focus will be on the development of the local and federated technology pilots. More specifically, we consider three technology pilots.

The first technology pilot focuses on intelligent mobility management to provide (horizontal and vertical) seamless handover in a multi-technology wireless network in which low-cost (OLPC-One Laptop Per Child) laptops tend to transit in groups between dense connectivity and sparse connectivity scenarios. The design and implementation of the pilot calls for exploitation of and likely enhancements to the programmability, virtualisation and monitoring capabilities of the selected enabling technologies. It also requires existing features to be enhanced and new features to be added to the OLPCs, network nodes and possibly to the selected enabling technologies. Particular attention will be devoted to the monitoring capability to assist seamless handover as well as to collect important information, such as mobility pattern, for improving handover even further in future developments. The second technology pilot focuses on intelligent content delivery of high-definition media over WDM optical networks. The development of the pilot calls for the design and implementation of an enhanced optical layer based on existing dynamically-reconfigurable WDM equipment that can support multicast, virtualisation and programmability. It also requires the design and implementation of a content delivery application on top of the programmable optical network substrate controller to redirect users to best content providers according to monitored parameters of interest and decision criteria.

The third technology pilot builds on the second one, but now with automatic on-demand network connectivity services offered by the GMPLS control plane on top of the programmable optical network substrate controller. The design and implementation of the pilot call for an integration solution that exploits both virtualisation and programmability, and eventually configure a GMPLS control plane offered as a service. In particular, virtualisation will allow for an existing open-source GMPLS stack to run seamless on top of the substrate controller and to work only on the virtual topology that has been allocated by the control and monitoring framework; programmability will consist in translating the node-wide GMPLS reservation actions (in/out transport resource bindings through the southbound interface – CCI) onto the primitives that are accepted by the substrate controller.The design and development of the technology pilots will pave the way or local and federated experiments using wireless and optical networking test-beds. The outcome of the designed and developed technology pilots will be demonstrated through three use-cases. Therefore, it will be assumed that the local and federated facilities will have been developed accordingly based on the requirements of the pre-defined use cases.

These use-cases will also validate the development of the technology pilots.