SICT Center IBBC

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SICT Center IBBC is the basis for Broadband activities at Acreo.

What is ”SICT Center IBBC”?
IBBC is established by Swedish ICT Research on a three year financing basis (financing partly by VINNOVA). A SICT Center defines an important technical competence area driven by the needs of Swedish ICT industry, in cooperation with Academia on state-of-the-art level.

IBBC utilizes the area of broadband communication techniques as a basis. Financing is secured from 2007-01-01 to 2009-12-31 with 6 MSEK/y – industry matching required.

Focus areas in center

• High bit-rate (100 Gb/s) transmission
• Transparent and reconfigurable networks
• Network control and management – tests in the testbed
• Video quality and display technology

Key R&D topics at Acreo Broadband department

• High bit-rate transmission (10 – 160 Gb/s per channel)
• Wavelength Division Multiplexing
• Network implementation and architecture (incl. standardization)
• Municipal networks (Specification, Validation, Quality assurance)
• IPTV video quality (incl. HDTV)
• Access technologies (PON, xDSL, …) and Home networks
• Traffic measurements and modelling
• Open TV platform (Basebox environment)
• Display quality
• Trials of services and technology in the  Acreo National Testbed