Low cost broadband access for everyone
The EU-funded Integrated Project "Broadband services for everyone over fixed wireless access networks (BROADWAN)" started on 1 December 2003. The main goals are:
The utilisation of broadband networks is becoming increasingly more important for the development of European society. Broadband services help and may even be absolutely necessary, to main-tain and increase the everyday quality of life irrespective of living area. Business, organi-sations, education, health care, culture, and community authorities take more and more ad-vantage of broadband networks. The realisation of a European-wide broadband network is bene-ficial to the people as well as business and in-dustry without dam-aging the environ-ment.
Broadband technology helps European busi-ness and society in general, and radio-based technology in particular has the poten-tial of improving third world societies dra-matically.
BROADWAN, being an Integrated Project, approaches a wide range of tasks and the main goal may be reformulated to get things moving in the broadband access area with an em-phasis on wireless in hybrid solutions. Besides having a wide-ranging approach BROADWAN also makes in-depth investigations and developments such as inno-vative heterogeneous low-cost architecture to reach everyone, automatic software tools of cost-optimised hybrid network planning and next generation wireless access at both high (42 GHz) and low frequen-cies (5GHz). BROADWAN launches several demonstrations and trials, workshops, and introduces a new wireless forum for providing public information, training of users and builders or suppliers, as well as promoting broadband access in general.
For regularly updated information and a full list of partners, please visit the web-site broadwan.org .
Contact person : Terje Tjelta, Telenor R&D ( terje.tjelta@telenor.com )