The document summarizes information about the i2CAT Foundation, a non-profit organization in Barcelona that conducts research and innovation in networking technologies. It discusses i2CAT's objectives of collaborating across sectors to advance networking research. It also provides details on i2CAT's board composition, main research areas, experimental platforms, connectivity, and example projects in areas like telehealth, audiovisual, and open innovation. Finally, it shows graphs on i2CAT's evolution in terms of budget, projects, companies involved, and research staff from 2004-2007.

1. Fundació i2CAT
Recerca i Innovació en Xarxa
Barcelona, 2008

2. Fundació i2CAT
i2CAT is a non for profit
Foundation for
Research & Innovation
on
Next Generation Internet

3. Objectives
 The i2CAT Foundation is a collaborative platform for the research and
innovation
 The i2CAT key model is based on the collaboration between the public,
private sectors and the academic environment, setting up an innovative
Triple Helix model (Loet Leydesdorff) in the Information and
Communication Technologies.

4. The i2CAT Foundation & the University
 The Foundation integrates 13 research groups from the
three Catalan universities that are on the i2CAT
Foundation patronate board.

5. i2CAT’s Board
 The board is composed by 5 public institutions, 3
universities and 9 private companies from the
telecommunications and media sector.

6. Main research lines

7. i2CAT’s Clusters
 The innovation projects are developed within a cluster organization
framework, involving companies and institutions who perform their activity
within the same sector or share innovation goals.

8. Experimental research platforms
The i2CAT Foundation provides an experimental research
infrastructure to support R&D&I projects. It is based on a
distributed research and innovation lab, which interconnects
main public and private research institutions and
universities.
• Advanced Multimedia Experimental Platform
• Optical Experimental Network Platform
• IP Experimental Network Platform

9. Connected institutions at the NOC

10. Core optical nodes

11. Optical experimental Infrastructure

12. IP experimental Infrastructure

13. Multimedia Experimental Plataform

14. Set-up examples
Phosphoru 1.5Gbps HDSDI testbed
s
Poland
Barcelona
Canada
Netherland
Germany

15. i2CAT’s Connectivity

16. Research Project (2008-2009 ) I
Research – TRILOGY (fuTuRe Internet technoLOGY)
VIRTUALIZATION

17. PHOSPHORUS (FP6) Project. Network Tech.
 Objective
 Provide control and provisioning
systems for the establishment of
end-to-end services, under
demand and in a multi domain
approach.
 Trate the network infrastructure
as a grid resource.

18. FEDERICA (FP7) Project. Network Tech.
 Objective
 Deploy at European scale an experimental infrastructure for the furture internet researchers, independent
of the service infrastructure of GÉANT2 (this initiative is similar to the GENI approach).
 Principles of the experimental FEDERICA infrastructure
 Create a neutral and agnostic infrastructure.
 Create slices. An slice is a set of (virtual) network and computational resources
 Give to the user the complete control of an slice, in order to allow the researcher to experiment with any
type of protocol and application.

19. powered by
ARGIA: IaaS for optical networks
DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE TO OPTICAL NETWORKS
Parallel network plaforms OPTICAL NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR (optical network manager, infrastructure provider):
sharing physical susbstrates  Partition your infrastructure and decide what users can control what resources
 The Resource Management Center allows you to monitor which users are using which parts of your network and, at the
same time, manage and control your network as a traditional NMS
 Untagged Ethernet, TDM (SONET and SDH), WDM and Fiber technologies supported
APN ADMINISTRATOR (infrastructure integrator, service provider):
 Get access to the control of various infrastructure resources (optical switches, links) from several network providers
 Integrate the infrastructure resources into your management domain and provide services to yourself or to your end
users
END USER (human, network enabled application):
 Access the bandwidth on demand service to create end to end circuit advance reservations
 Create preconfigured network scenarios that can be put in place when invoked
 Make your applications interact with the network through the Argia Web Service APIs
Argia current status
Supported equipment:
•Nortel OME 6500, Nortel HDXc, Nortel OPTera
Metro 5200.
•Cisco ONS 15454, Cisco ONS 15600 (under
development)
• Wonesys Proteus ROADM
• Calient Diamondwave PXC (under
development)
Argia Deployment:
•CANARIE: Evaluating it for the production
network.
•CANARIE, Starlight: for the HPDMnet project Resource List Editor Physical Network Editor
• CRC, i2cat: for the PHOSPHORUS project
• Ongoing conversations with PacificWave, End to End Circuit
KRLight, Reservation GUI
Virtualize Link
Wizard
Inocybe.ca - i2cat.cat - crc.ca - iaasframework.com

20. powered by
The MANTICORE project
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CENTER FOR LOGICAL IP NETWORKS
 CONFIGURE PHYSICAL AND LOGICAL ROUTERS
lo0: 10.10.20.5/32
lo0: 10.10.10.4/32
The MANTICORE
Resource Management Center allows network administrators and users to configure their physical
and logical routers
AS10 ge-3/0/0 192.168.20.2
192.168.10.2
router4.rediris.es
static
lo0: 10.10.1.1/32 lo0: 10.10.1.2/32
eBGP router5.rediris.es
AS20  SHARE RESOURCES The same physical network substrate can be partitioned into
ge-3/0/0
several resources (e.g. logical routers) that can be controlled by different users.
ge-3/0/0 192.168.1.1 ge-3/0/0
192.168.20.1
192.168.10.1 ge-2/0/0 ge-2/0/0
192.168.1.2  CREATE LOGICAL IP NETWORKS Create logical IP Networks as resources
ge-1/0/0
192.168.0.1 ge-0/0/0 192.168.2.1 and configure the internal (OSPF, RIP, iBGP, static) and external routing (eBGP, static)
router1.rediris.es router2.rediris.es
ge-1/0/0
AS1 192.168.0.2 ge-0/0/0
 PEER WITH OTHER NETWORKS Different users can configure their logical IP
AREA 0 192.168.2.2
Networks in order to peer with each other , by using the BGP protocol or by adding static routes
lo0: 10.10.1.3/32
router3.rediris.es
DEMO SCENARIO
Physical Network Substrate
• 1 Physical Router (Juniper M7i), HEAnet Domain
Short Storyboard
• HEAnet admin:
• Creates five logical routers (LRs)
• Creates links between LRs
• Creates two IP Networks: AS10 and AS1 Resource List
Editor
• Adds three LRs to AS1 and one to AS10
• Configures OSPF, iBGP and eBGP in AS1
• Adds a static route between AS10 and AS1
• Exports one LR to i2cat
Physical Network
Editor
• i2cat admin:
• Creates an IP network (AS20) and adds the LR Virtualize
Interface
received from HEAnet BGP
Wizard
Configuration
• Configures eBGP in AS 20 Wizard
heanet.ie - i2cat.cat - iaasframework.com - rediris.es - nordu.net - juniper.net - entel.upc.edu

21. IPsphere : Framework that allows the
end user to compose and manage his own
network, selecting and orchestrating several
resources with QoS requirements from
different Providers.
Providers (Element Owners) publishes the
elements (resources) that can be used by
the End-Users in order to fulfill his
requirements.
OPENsphere is the first open source implementation of IPsphere. The OPENsphere will be deployed at the
CONTENTsphere field trial. For this field trial an orchestration of an end-to-end connection with QoS requirements
will be showcased.
User request will be traduced by SMS Admin as a service script ( where have been chosen a set of connectivity
elements that performs the entirely path requested by user) . This script will be executed by SMS Parent invoking
several operations to different SMS Child instances. Each SMS Child involved will operate with the Management
System that manages its current infrastructure (configuring and queering its devices).

22. HPDMnet project and the GLIF Infrastructure
MOTIVATION:
• Problematic:
– Multiple Sites Require High Performance
/ High Volume / High Definition Digital Media
Streaming Simultaneously Among All Locations
(Multi-Point to Multi-Point)
– Traditional L3 Techniques Cannot Be Used for Many Types of High
Definition Media
– These Techniques Were Designed for Many Small Information Flows –
Not for Large Scale Flows.
• Solutions:
– To form a Consortium of Research Centres from Around the World (or
Cooperative Partnership)
– To Explore the Key Issues Related to the Challenges and Opportunities
Related to Using LightPaths for High Performance Digital Media (HPDM)

23. HPDMnet Demos
@ GLIF September 2007 (Prague) @ echallenges October 2007 (Amsterdam, Ottawa)
@ ArtFutura October 2007 (Barcelona) @ SuperComputing Nov. 2007 (Reno, Nevada)

24. ARGIA/HPDMnet at GLIF (added value)
• ARGIA* deployed at some GOLEs, controlling GLIF
infrastructure (access to network element control and
management):
– Argia deployed at CANARIE
– Argia deployed at STARLIGHT
– Ongoing conversations to deploy Argia at the PacificWAVE
Seattle GOLE (for a demo at the GLIF meeting 2008)
– Ongoing conversations do deploy Argia at the KOREALIGHT
GOLE
• Access to Layer 1 circuits:
– Experimental test and validation of optical multicast technologies
to transport high performance digital media.
* ARGIA is still being developed and enhanced (Inocybe –start-up-, CRC, i2CAT). The network is
also used to experiment and develop the product towards a commercial version

25. Tele-Ictus Project. e-health

26. FURIA Project. Audiovisual
MPEG2 TS
MPEG2 TS Outer coder Inner coder
Outer coder Inner coder Frame Nyquist
Random & & Modulator Frame S/P IFFT Nyquist
Random & & Modulator S/P IFFT filter (TX)
bits interleaver adaptation converter + filter (TX)
bits interleaver interleaver adaptation converter +
interleaver Guard
Guard
interval
interval
Pilot RF
Pilot RF
Generation
Generation
Bit Collect error AWGN Channel
Bit Collect error AWGN Channel
comparison statistics addition
addition model
comparison statistics model
Remove
Remove
Channel decoding & cyclic
cyclic
Channel decoding & Nyquist
interleaver (inner & Demodulator Equalizer prefix Nyquist
interleaver (inner & Demodulator Equalizer prefix filter (RX)
outer) + filter (RX)
outer) +
FFT
FFT
Channel
Channel
estimation
estimation
Main activity within i2CAT: development of a physical layer DVB-T2
(High Definition version of TDT) simulator

27. Anella Cultural Project. Audiovisual
 It aims to build a robust infrastructure for eCulture in Catalonia, offering to the cultural
community composed by different cities the chance to be connected by means of a
experimental media network to share live cultural events.

28. Linguamon Project. Audiovisual
 This portal gathers together the services offered by the media channel of the ‘Casa de les
Llengües’ and allow the sharing and management of media resources in diferent languages
(advanced searches, videoforums, chats, subtitles,…). It also provides different services
that allow the interaction in real time of people placed on different locations

29. Catlab Project. Open Innovation
 Objectives:
- Design, develop and test a Living Labs network connected to the EnoLL.
- Generate an open innovation project (methodology), based on network
innovation to enhance the competitive and Catalan cohesion.
 It is an initiative sponsored by the Society and information
Telecommunications Secretary.

30. Industrial ring. Industry
• Deployment of an advanced service infrastructure for the automobile industry
• Distributed experimental network for the automobile design research
BSC

31. Examples of i2CAT International Demonstrations
with i2CAT/RedIRIS/GÉANT

32. i2CAT Evolution
Total budget
4.000.000
3.500.000
3.000.000
2.500.000
2.000.000
1.500.000
1.000.000
500.000
0
2004 2005 2006 2007
Incomes evolution
2.000.000
1.800.000
1.600.000
1.400.000
1.200.000
1.000.000
800.000
600.000
400.000
200.000
0
Catalan government Companies and entities Competitive founds Service invoicing
to projects
2004 2005 2006 2007

33. i2CAT Evolution
Innovation Projects NUMBER OF PROJECTS FROM COMPETITIVE CALLS
25
50
40 20
30 15
20
10
10
0 5
2004 2005 2006 2007 0
2004 2005 2006 2007
Projects ended Porject on going Projects in studi
NUMBER OF COMPANIES
EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH STAFF
70
60 100
50
50
40
30 0
20 2004 2005 2006 2007
10
FULL TIME EMPLOEE SUPPORT PERSONAL/ATTACHED
0
2004 2005 2006 2007

34. Fundació i2CAT
Edifici Nexus I
c/ Gran Capità, 2-4
2ª planta, Despatx 203
08034 Barcelona
Tel. +34.93.553.25.10
Fax: +34.93.553.25.20
www.i2cat.cat
fundacio@i2cat.net