CELTIC Innovation Award 2014 won by Ericsson-led project

The 2014 edition of the CELTIC Innovation Award has been won by 4GBB, a research project co-led by Ericsson and Lund University. The project delivered a very valuable input to the Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe for assuring high-speed Internet connectivity to Europe’s society. Celtic-Plus also honoured the three most successful, recently finished projects with the Celtic-Plus Excellence Award.

Celtic–Plus is EUREKA’s strategic initiative in the field of telecommunications, initiated by major European players in this industry. The 4GBB project developed a new generation of broadband access systems delivering up to 1 Gb/s. The system is a hybrid fibre-copper system where optical fibre is deployed to near the homes and existing copper wiring is used for the last say 20-250 meters. The project successfully aimed at initiating and driving a new standard which is called G.fast.

The Excellence Awards were given to EO-net, HIPERMED and ENGINES. The EO-Net project brings elasticity to optical transport networks, so that its ability to adapt data rates and allocated bandwidths of each optical signal according to both the traffic demand and the amount of physical degradation of the network. The Hipermed project realized a High Performance Telemedicine Platform based on a unified Service Oriented Architecture providing media over IP using SIP-based control plane services and network services over the Internet. The ENGINES project focused on the support and development of the Digital Video Broadcasting-Next Generation Handheld (DVB-NGH) and DVB-T2 standard. This standard has been adopted or deployed in more than 140 countries. DVB-T2 has been adopted in 32 and deployed in 24 other countries mainly from Asia and Africa.