RNP started to occupy a leadership position at the Global Experimentation for Future Internet (GEFI), a group formed by the European Union, the United States, Brazil and Japan, to define the global collaboration goals in Future Internet. The results of such work were presented at Net Futures 2016, an event held in Brussels, Belgium, on April 20 and 21, which brought together representatives of the technological industry of Europe, of the scientific community, of companies and organizations involved in research and innovation.

According to the P&D director, Michael Stanton, who took part in the session dedicated to GEFI in Net Futures, the relationships among the countries that form the international group are no longer polarized by the European Union and the USA, and have become multilateral, with Brazil’s participation in the decision-making process. “Since 2013, the federation of the experimental initiatives from the USA, Europe, Brazil and Japan has been discussed, to allow collaboration among the initiatives of said partners”, he reveals.

At the session dedicated to GEFI at Net Futures 2016, Michael Stanton presented the experimental research opportunities in Brazil, while the adjunct-director of Advanced Internet, Iara Machado, showcased the distributed laboratory proposal of project FIBRE (Future Internet Brazilian Environment for Experimentation), managed by RNP.

The panel also exemplified the interconnection of similar initiatives by means of a demonstration between a laboratory of GENI’s in the United States and Fibre in Brazil, made by the University of Gent, in Belgium, which coordinates the association of experimental environments in Europe.

Since 2008, the GENI platform is an initiative by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA, which allows the experimental research in Future Internet. In that same year, the European Union launched the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) initiative, a similar program. New network architectures, services and applications, federations, cloud computing, Internet of the Things and wireless networks are some of the fields of study.