CPAs 1999 CPAs 2000 CPAs Cross-Prog. To foster deployment and early market adoption of open converged networking infrastructures by supporting industry driven experimentation, integration, validation and deployment of cross boundary applications and services. These large scale experiments will complement laboratory testbeds and trials conducted in other parts of the Programme and will allow for testing usability and user-friendliness on a larger scale in terms of both number of users and duration of the experiments. The work focuses on novel IP infrastructures that result from the convergence of fixed, mobile and wireless technologies and architectures from a service perspective. The availability of large scale converged network infrastructures will permit the validation of technological choices related to issues such as interoperability, scalability, security and Quality of Service and to experiment and demonstrate full service and application capabilities in the context of specific application sectors.
Complementary dimensions are the testing of new business models for the service provision.