Assessment of advanced broadband scenarios in Europe

The Application Pilots of the European programme RACE announce new requirements on future telecommunication facilities. In this context the Exploitation and Service Project (RACE1091) has been established to support and evaluate the pilots. For the assessment a taxonomy was used to classify the pilots user-requirements. The taxonomy is based on the BERKOM Reference Model and supports the identification of standard solutions. It was observed, although the description of the Application Pilots in terms of their users is different, they have several communalities. The assessment shows that international standards do not completely comply with the user-requirements in a broadband environment. On the one hand overlap in functionality could be observed, on the other hand functionality offered by standards, should be enhanced. This paper describes the appliance of the taxonomy to the TELEMED-pilot.<
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