SEQUIN, an acronym standing for "Service Quality across Independently Managed Networks", is the name of a project involving eight partners in seven countries and co-funded by the European Commission under the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. SEQUIN became operational on November 1, 2000 and will run for 18 months.
The objective of SEQUIN is to define and implement an end-to-end approach to Quality of Service (QoS) that will operate across multiple management domains and will exploit a combination of IP and ATM technology.
SEQUIN will ensure that researchers across Europe have access to networking facilities that can be tailored to the requirements of the individual groups, and which will offer predictable and stable quality across multiple underlying management domains and networking technologies.
An initial objective of the SEQUIN project is the creation of a definition of QoS which is based on a merging of user requirements and the capabilities of emerging technologies. This definition will then be tested in a pilot environment with the objective of achieving a stable production QoS offering differentiated QoS by the end of the project.