European activities towards an all-IP mobile network

Around the world, many activities exist to explore open, IP-based mobile networks. Within Europe, the European Government is sponsoring collaborative research towards end-to-end All-IP Mobile Networks. NEC's European Network Laboratories (NL-E) are participating in two major European projects. Within the Daidalos project we are working on IP based mobility across heterogeneous access networks. Within the Ambient Networks project our focus is on Capex/Opex reduction through intelligent management techniques, including flexible on-demand composition of heterogeneous networks, realizing the vision of "Always-best-connected".