Experimental Testing and Developing Facilities
Testing Facilities
Facilities for Programmers and Developers
PlanetLab Europe |
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| Description: | PlanetLab Europe is the emerging European portion of the publicly available PlanetLab testbed. PlanetLab Europe's control centre in Paris is federated with the worldwide PlanetLab control centre in Princeton. PlanetLab Europe is also working to federate with PlanetLab Japan. |
| Link: | http://www.planet-lab.eu/Home |
OneLab |
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| Description: | The OneLab project provides an open federated laboratory, built on PlanetLab Europe, which supports network research for the future internet. |
| Link: | http://www.onelab.eu/ |
PII |
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| Description: | PII addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating heterogeneous testbeds. It maintains a list of specialised testbeds. |
| Link: | http://www.panlab.net/testbed-repository.html |
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Ericsson Labs |
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| Description: | The Ericsson Labs portal is about beta applications. Here, anyone can download applications and try them out. By registering, the user can join the forums to rate and discuss the applications and give feedback. |
| Link: | https://labs.ericsson.com/ |
Open IMS Core |
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| Description: | The Open IMS Core is an implementation of IMS Call Session Control Functions (CSCFs) and a lightweight Home Subscriber Server (HSS), which together form the core elements of all IMS/NGN architectures as specified today within 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI TISPAN and the PacketCable intiative. The four components are all based upon Open Source software(e.g. the SIP Express Router (SER) or MySQL). For almost three years the Open IMS Core has formed the heart of the Open IMS Playground @ FOKUS |
| Link: | http://www.openimscore.org/ |
Fraunhofer FOKUS Media Interoperability Lab |
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| Description: | The Media Interoperability Lab is a real world test bed and research platform for personalized standardized IPTV and convergent media services. The Lab offers an infrastructure with IPTV clients available on several fixed and mobile platforms as well as an open enabler infrastructure to deploy new services and applications inside the network. The lab relies on standards as ETSI TISPAN R2, Open IPTV Forum R1 and beyond building a bridge between CE and Telco worlds. |
| Link: | http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_testbeds/index.html |
BIB3R |
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| Description: | Berlin's Beyond-3G Testbed and Serviceware Framework for Advanced Mobile Solutions |
| Link: | http://www.dai-labor.de/ |
FEDERICA |
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| Description: | Federica is a federated e-Infraestructure that implements an experimental network for trialling new networking technologies. Agnostically, some protocols, services and applications may be tested to run over disruptive experiments. |
| Link: | http://www.fp7-federica.eu/ |
OpenLivingLabs |
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| Description: | As a member of European Network Living Labs (a wide set of living labs), OpenLivingLab is a network infrastructure that offers both emerging and future services. |
| Link: | http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/ |
Octopus |
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| Description: | Octopus network is a mobile testing environment that supports Multi Access Networks such as 2G, 3G, WLAN, etc. Applications, services and mobile technologies could be researched, developed and tested. |
| Link: | http://www.octo.fi/ |
Wisebed |
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| Description: | Wisebed provides a multi-level infrastructure of interconnected testbeds of large-scale wireless sensor networks for research purposes, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the aspects of hardware, software, algorithms, and data. |
| Link: | http://www.wisebed.eu/ |
Sony Ericsson Labs |
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| Description: | Sony Ericsson Labs is a place to showcase and share work in progress ideas and applications. We are using it initially as a place to share our prototypes and demos. |
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DT Labs |
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| Description: | DT-Labs own developer portal called Developer Garden. |
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Facilities for Programmers and Developers
Litmus provided by O2 |
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| Description: | Litmus offers an opportunity to bring ideas for mobile apps and services to life, on whichever platform or technology by providing access to the tools (network APIs, handset toolkits and resources) which a developer needs to create modern, cutting-edge applications. |
| Link: | http://www.o2litmus.co.uk/ |
betavine provided by Vodafone |
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| Description: | Betavine.net is an open community & resource website, created and managed by Vodafone Group R&D, whose mission is to support the wider development community in stimulating ideas, developing, testing and launching great new applications for mobile and internet communications. Via betavine.mobi mobile enthusiasts can download and play with any application and feedback to the developer on how it could be improved. Everyone is welcome to register as a member, download and play with applications, contribute to discussion threads and create or comment on blog entries. Betavine is not just for developers or Vodafone customers, is it open to all. |
| Link: | http://www.betavine.net/ |
Web21C SDK provided by BT |
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| Description: | The Web21C SDK is a set of libraries that makes it simple for developers to consume Web Services exposed by BT. It abstracts the services into a simple interface accessible through a number of different programming languages that free the developer to focus on creating their application. |
| Link: | http://web21c.bt.com |
Orange APIs |
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| Description: | Orange APIs speed up and stimulate co-innovation for all types of Web 2.0, SaaS and Social Network solutions by offering this new, streamlined and flexible access to Orange services. |
| Link: | http://www.orangepartner.com/site/enuk/access_orange_apis/p_access.jsp |
Forum.Nokia.com |
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| Description: | Forum Nokia offers a wealth of resources to help design, build, test, certify, market, and sell or promote applications, content, services, or Web site to mobile users. |
| Link: | http://www.forum.nokia.com/ |
IBM alphaWorks services |
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| Description: | alphaWorks was created in 1996 with the goal of unveiling some of the many innovative Research & Development projects from IBM development labs around the world. For IBM's researchers, alphaWorks became the channel for reaching an early adopter audience that is instrumental in shaping the future technology landscape. For developers, it was a chance to get their hands on alpha code with which they could experiment in order to create their own innovations. From community adoption of alphaWorks technologies came successes in many areas, including the foundation and creation of standards in Java, XML, and Web services. |
| Link: | http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/ |
HP Services Market Place |
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| Description: | The HP Services Marketplace provides the complete assortment of services, consulting and technology for operators and third-party value-added service providers to realize their end services goals and strategy. The Marketplace program provides the expertise and tools throughout the complete end user service deployement lifestyle: Expore, Test and Deploy; which enables operators to work with one solution provider for their complete needs. |
| Link: | http://www.hpintelco.net/servicesmarketplace.htm |
Ericsson Labs Developer |
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| Description: | The Ericsson Labs Developer portal is for developers who need resources to develop their services and applications. The resources are found in sub-portals containing documentation, code and API specification for beta enablers available for live testing. The developer needs to register to get access to this content. Each sub-portal also has a news blog and a forum for discussing bugs, usage, improvements and technology. |
| Link: | https://labs.ericsson.com/ |
IaaS Framework |
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| Description: | The IaaS Framework is a development framework for the creation of infrastructure as a service resource. It is valuable to create web services or REST service representation of hardware devices. |
| Link: | http://www.iaasframework.com/ |
Parlay-X |
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| Description: | The Parlay API is an open and technology-independent tool to develop advance telecommunications services for a wide range of players in the market. The implementation of Parlay is based on application servers outside the network domain, running Parlay applications. Moreover, Parlay-X API defines a set of functions for Web services. |
| Link: | http://www.parlay.org/ |
Globus Toolkit |
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| Description: | The Globus Toolkit is an open source software toolkit for the creation of Grid systems and applications. The toolkit includes software services and libraries for resource monitoring, discovery, and management, plus security and file management. |
| Link: | http://www.globus.org/ |
OASIS |
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| Description: | Oasis is a collection of open standards that simplify the development of SOA architectures. Oasis lets developers uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous sources, including relational databases, XML data sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems. |
| Link: | http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php |