Access to the QUANTUM documents is restricted to participants
The QUANTUM Tech homepage is also of restricted access
The QUANTUM project followed on from the successful TEN-34 project and was operational between October 1998 and November 2000.
Between February 1997 and December 1998, TEN-34 provided the European academic and research community with a stable IP based pan-European network service. The main objective of the QUANTUM project was the continuation of this stable IP network service but at access capacities up to 155 Mbps. In parallel with the IP service, the continuation service, known as TEN-155 and running until November 2001, provides a managed bandwidth service to the participating national research networks and other specific groups of users.
More and more cooperative development activities in Europe are based on the use of multi-media services, which are only effective if they can rely on high Quality of Service levels which cannot be provided on a loaded 'best efforts' IP network. Protocol enhancements such as RSVP and IPv6, as well as the Quality of Service management inherent in the ATM technology are addressing these issues. It has long been apparent that for multi-media services to develop on a pan-European scale a new approach to Quality of Service was required. An important element of the QUANTUM project was to trial the new protocols and technology developments both in a test and a wide area network environment with the aim of deploying them in the operational TEN-155 service at a later stage.
A Consortium of 16 national research networks, one regional research network and DANTE as the Co-ordinating Partner were responsible for the organisation of the QUANTUM project. DANTE is a not-for-profit company which plans, builds and manages the provision of pan-European Internet connectivity for the European research community.
The QUANTUM Project was co-funded under the Telematics Applications, Esprit and ACTS Programmes of the European Commission.
Access to the QUANTUM documents is restricted to participants
The QUANTUM Tech homepage is also of restricted accessQUANTUM was a Research & Development Project co-ordinated by DANTE and supported by the European Commission. The opinions contained in this server do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission.