- Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent is an innovation engine with over 1,000 scientists and researchers across 8 countries collaborating with over 300 academic institutions. It has over 27,900 active patents and publishes over 400 papers per year. - Experimentation facilities are important for evaluating solutions under realistic conditions at scale beyond theoretical research and simulations. This allows moving research closer to eventual product development. - Examples of projects using large-scale emulation on the iLab.t platform include FP7 OCEAN investigating scalable content-aware delivery over CDNs and FP7 ECODE adding learning-based control to networks. - Lessons learned are that large-scale emulation is important for validation and understanding before