Project acronym: BREAD

Coordination: IMEC - Ghent University INTEC Department, Belgium

Project partners:

University of Essex - Electronic Systems Engineering Department, UK COM / Center for Tele-Information at the Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Communications & Electronics Department at the GET/TELECOM PARIS-Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France Heinrich Hertz Institute für Nachrichtentechnik of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung, Germany Telscom Consulting, Switzerland Institute of Prospective Technological Studies, at the Directorate General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JCP-Consult Sarl, France

ICT Technological Area: 5.2. Broadband Technologies, 2.13. Information Technology/Informatics, 2.14. Internet Technologies

Sectors of ICT Implementation: 2.2. Telecommunications

Project duration: 36 months

Project start: 01/01/2004

EC funding: 1.7 M EUR

Project aim:
The BREAD - co-ordination action aims at developing a multi-disciplinary approach for the realisation of the 'broadband for all' concept within Europe, bringing societal, economic, regulatory and technological disciplines together. It aims to bring together all players active in end-to-end broadband provisioning. A multi-technological analysis of the evolving broadband technologies is developed, together with techno-economic, societal and regulatory aspects of the "broadband for all" concept and regional "success stories" of actual deployment. The BREAD project builds on an IST co-ordination and information exchange platform to enhance the interaction between the key players in the field and to invoke discussions on this multi-disciplinary approach. The Broadband cluster/Forum set up by BREAD supports the creation of the European Research Area (ERA) through the stimulation of the interaction of EU national initiatives and projects. Besides the website, a yearly “BROADBAND Europe” conference plays here a crucial role.

Contacts and Website:
http://www.ist-bread.org/
peter.vandaele@intec.ugent.be

IMEC – Ghent University
INTEC Department
Prof. Dr. Ir. Peter Van Daele
Gent, Belgium