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Annex 2 ACTS and the Chain Concertation Mechanism ACTS will build on previous European Union R&D programmes, including RACE in telecommunications, giving the impetus for the implementation of the telecommunications needs of the information society. The work in the ACTS framework will stimulate the development of integrated broadband communications in Europe, with all manner of communications - voice and sound, still pictures and video images, data and text - providing boundless opportunities for new users, services and employment. The IBC network will link fixed and mobile communications in a seamless web. ACTS is not just a framework for technology development. It will demonstrate how advanced technology can help us to help ourselves. It will encourage the use of advanced communications services in residential and business applications. Services such as teleconferencing, information brokerage and teleworking will improve the way we work, while those such as home shopping, information services, and interactive video will remodel leisure and home life. Isolated “islands” of IBC technology are already operating. The challenge is to ensure that widespread IBC services are made available as soon as possible. Everyone, everywhere in the Union should have access to a pan-European IBC network by the turn of the century. ACTS will bring together individual companies, public sector organisations, research institutes, schools and universities to develop and used advanced communications technologies and services. Its work will be concentrated in critical fields such as optical technologies, multimedia and mobile communications. The participants in ACTS projects will work in six main areas of advanced communications. The projects will link participants from different industries, different disciplines and different countries in co-ordinated research into the implementation and use of new technologies and services. • Interactive digital multimedia services Once computers dealt with letters and numbers. Now they present information to the user integrating data, image and sound. But this mixing of information media - multimedia - is only just beginning. By combining technologies, multimedia created new dimensions to information - leading directly to new uses of that information, in turn creating new opportunities for growth, competitiveness and employment. The familiar but distinct television and telephone networks will merge into a single web of high capacity links channelling any and all forms of communication between distant places. • Photonic technologies Photonic techniques, using light rather than electricity, will improve communications dramatically - thanks to extremely high-speed high-capacity transmission and switching abilities. Fibre optic cables form the back-bone of existing telecommunications networks, and increasingly reach out to individual premises, both business - 84 -
ACTS and the Chain Concertation Mechanism Annex 2 and residential. But optical switching will also be an important feature of the IBC network. Fully optical operation from end-to-end across the network will offer great improvements over electronic techniques. • High-speed networking High speed is the key to advances in communications. It is essential for many new applications - real-time video, for example, or the rapid transfer of data between computers. The work promoted by ACTS aids the implementation of integrated, highspeed, “multigigabit” networks by the year 2000. These services will be available initially to leading-edge users in European industry, research organisations and universities, preparing the way for the Europe-wide deployment of high-speed networks. • Mobility and personal communications networks Europe has led the way in developing and implementing personal communications systems. It is vital for Europe to keep the initiative in this area. ACTS will contribute to European efforts to maintain that leadership. Few markets have grown as rapidly as the mobile telecommunications networks introduced in Europe over the last few years. But the era of mobile networks is still in its infancy. Wide availability will allow people to communicate freely from homes or offices, towns or rural areas, fixed locations or moving vehicles. Communication will be possible between anybody, anywhere, anytime. • Intelligence in networks and service engineering Substantial intelligence will be needed in the IBC network to provide users with an array of sophisticated telecommunications services. Intelligence adds computer power to the network. This makes the network easier to use and increases its flexibility. Intelligence will also be critical in the field of service engineering - the creation of new telecommunications services. Intelligent techniques will be needed so that new services can be developed quickly and with quality. • Quality, security and safety of communications services and systems Quality, security and safety are all absolutely vital in communications network. With hundreds of millions of individual users sharing the network resources it is vital that each and every transmission is secure and safe. Business and residential users will demand transparent quality, security and safety at costeffective prices. - 85 -
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