Nowadays, there is a common industrial consensus in the fact that IP and Ethernet will remain the fundamental networking technologies for a long time, as illustrated by the irreversible trend towards IP/Ethernet access, backhaul, metro and core. Nevertheless, related protocol families and architectures are still evolving autonomously, instead of improving their cooperation in terms of technical feature and service-driven applications. The TIGER project aims at analyzing current and future requirements and at proposing extensions and innovative features answering those constraints. This first step will consist in analyzing major existing solutions with respect to specific service support (such as virtual private line services, etc.), technology features (data and control) and standardization status. Then, three main axes may serve as guidelines for the new solution(s): a) Enhancement of the adaptation capabilities between IP and Ethernet, b) extending the usage of GMPLS control capabilities to Ethernet data plane and, c) determining the behaviour of the IP layer on top of these new solutions.

• Institution of Financing: EU/FP6, CELTIC
  

• Partners: Alcatel CIT (France), France TELECOM, GET-ENST (France), Alcatel Bel (Belgium), IBBT (Belgium), FORTH (Greece), Net Technologies (Greece), Virtual Trip Ltd., RAD (Israel), Telefonica + Id (Spain), Un. Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain), SeaBridge Networks - Siemens (Israel)

• Start - End: 25/4/2006 - 31/3/2008 (Duration: 18 months)

• Project Budget: 4.330.210,00

• Project Funding: ??

• VTrip Budget: 112.300,00

• VTrip Funding: ??