Welcome to the FUSECO Playground

The independent testbed for FUture SEamless COmmunication

The progressing convergence of fixed and mobile networks, the seamless integration of multiple wireless access network technologies (WLAN, Femtocells, 2G/EDGE, 3G/HSPA, etc), the global introduction of 4G / Longterm Evolution (LTE) network technologies, as well as the fundamental changes in service delivery architectures based on emerging cloud technologies leads to new powerful communication control platforms, unifying the seamless, secure, Quality of Service based service provision across multiple access networks to different service control platforms.

Based on the experiences gained with the OpenIMS Playground and the Open SOA Telco Playground in establishing industry relevant testbeds for proof of concept implementations and interoperability testing of IP Multimedia Subsystem and Service Oriented Architecture based Service Delivery Platforms, the FOKUS FUSECO Playground has been launched in 2010 to practically understand the potentialities and limitations of the emerging 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) technology being introduced with LTE network role out for the seamless access to innovative applications, including human 2 human multimedia services, such as rich communications, emerging Machine 2 Machine services, as well as cloud based services. The FUSECO Playground offers an unique open infrastructure testbed to prototype and validate in an integrated multi-access network environment (DSL/WLAN/2G/3G/LTE/LTE-A) new concepts, components, protocols and helps to coin your vision of a Future Internet in areas like Smart Cities, Automotive, eHealth, eGovernment, Smart Metering and more.

The FUSECO Playground is an 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) centric, independent and open laboratory for mobile broadband communication research and development. It addresses large and small scale equipment vendors, network operators, application developers and research groups to testwise deploy and extend their components and applications before market introduction in order to manifest their advance in the international telecom market. In addition to the FOKUS OpenEPC toolkit, the FUSECO Playground also features the famous Open IMS Core and elevant enablers to gain experience with IMS-based Rich Communication Services (RCS) and Voice overLTE (VoLTE) services, as well as the OpenMTC toolkit, supporting an open range of machine 2 machine applications. In addition any internet or cloud-based service platform can be connected to this testbed in order to prototype new service concepts end 2 end across various network topologies.

Furthermore, the FUSECO Playground offers optional connections to the FOKUS Open SOA Telco Playground capabilities, in order to take advantage of newest service enablers and emerging Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for rapid service creation and to benefit from emerging open innovation concepts adopted by next generation Service Delivery Platforms and Smart City service platforms.

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News at NGNI

Special Tutorial by Prof. T. Magedanz in Krabi,Thailand

Special Tutorial by Prof. T. Magedanz: “Smart City Communication: M2M standards, applications and platforms” at Maritime Park and Spa resort, Krabi,Thailand, May 16th 2013."

OpenMTC Training in the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan

The OpenMTC software has found another customer in the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). The software has been successfully delivered and deployed at NCTU premises and additionally, a three hands-on training was performed on site in Taiwan.

Smart Communications Playground: Whether human or machine, one communication platform for all

The competence center NGNI introduces the Smart Communications Playground, a test and development environment for communication services in smart cities.

Fraunhofer FOKUS @ MWC 2013

The Open Mobile Alliance Demo Day took place at this years Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 27 February 2013. Fraunhofer FOKUS presented Smart Home applications over next generation M2M, showing the migration path for operators from a human communication paradigm towards Machine Type Communication (MTC).

Image Sharing App for Joyn

A video of our RCS-e app for Deutsche Telekom with which users can share pictures from their Facebook page via joyn with other joyn users is now online.

UC Lab opening at IT Telkom in Bandung

Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz took part in todays UC Lab opening ceremony at IT Telkom in Bandung, Indonesia. UC Lab is a part of Telkom Institute of Technology and it is a leading international research centre in the field of communication technology, where research, industry, and customers can benefit from its creativity process.

Prof. Thomas Magedanz at ICOICT

Prof. Thomas Magedanz presented a keynote entitled ”Smart Communication Platforms for Prototyping Smart City Applications” at the International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT) in Bandung, Indonesia, March 20 2013.