Future internet research and IPv6: Till Christopher Lech, Seniorrådgiver, Norges Forskningsråd IKT-Norge IPv6 forum IPV6 konferanse 23 & 24 mai 2011

1. Future Internet Research and IPv6
Till C. Lech, Senior Advisor VERDIKT

2. What will the Future Internet look like…?
??

3. The Future Internet will have…
 A considerably higher
transmission capability
 A computational capacity and
performance that clearly will
exceed what we have today
 Wireless access everywhere
 A great number of different digital
objects and electronic devices
connected
 Integrated security mechanisms at
all levels and adaptive tools and
services

4. The Driving FI Trends in VERDIKT

5. Background for topics
 Social Networks, Internet of Things and Mobile Internet are identified
as three of the most significant forces behind the Future Internet.
 All topics have several imminent challenges within a number of
special fields where Norway has, or should have, substantial
competence.
 The topics are important for the development of a competitive
industry and will have considerable social impact.
 At the same time the topics represent some of the most central
challenges within ICT as we are facing a society where everything
and everybody are increasingly dependent of ICT

6. VERDIKT –
National strategic ICT-research programme
Annual budget (2010): 170 mill NOK (21 mill €)
- Competence
– educate researchers, build research competence
- Knowledge
– research results relevant for society and industry
- Innovation
– and value creation driven by ICT-research
- Status:
 Total project volume: 1,5 mrd. NOK (186 mill €)
VERDIKT funding: 780 mill. NOK (96 mill €)
 100 research projects / 145 PhD-students / 45 post
doc.
“Core Competence and Value Creation with
ICT in the international forefront”

7. VERDIKT invests in Future Internet
 NOK 200m (25m EUR) – projects started May 2010
 Social networks – healthcare and welfare, democracy and
public services, game industry
 Internet of things – energy efficient radio communication,
near field communication systems/RFID, sensor networks
 Mobile internet – mobile applications, seamless systems,
cloud computing
 NOK 150m (20m EUR) in 2011 Call
 Innovation Projects (ca 70m)
 Researcher Projects (ca 80m)

8. Building on Norway’s
ICT Strengths and Advantages
 Industrial & technological presence in key ICT fields
 Telecommunications and mobile services
 Advanced instruments / micro systems
 Software engineering for services and embedded systems
 Capacity to draw on multiple disciplines
 Ability to transform technological progress into innovations
 The intersection between Internet of Things and Mobile
Internet has resulted in a focus on “Smart Cities”

9. Stepping up the game: European investment
in Future Internet Research
 EU spending on FI research
in FP7 ICT since 2007:
 Networks of the future: 540m€
 Software, Services, Cloud Computing: 300m€
 Internet of Things: 100m€
 Total: ca 7,3bn NOK
 …and even more on Security, applications,
hardware etc…

10. Tying it all together: The Future Internet
Public Private Partnership
 Launched in 2010
 300m€ over 4 years for
research, roll-out
and deployment of FI-
technology
 Utilisation of EC-funded R&I
and national initiatives
 Guided by the input of
Europe s leading industrial
stakeholders

11. So, what about IPv6, anyway?
 Unique adressability of «things» in IoT, and devices
in Mobile Internet requires a bigger address space
 Emerging technologies like e.g. 6LoWPAN in sensor
networks or smart grids are IPv6!
 Social Networks as sand box for deployment and
spreading of IPv6 (e.g. in the «IPv6 over social
networks» facebook app)
 Difficult to build tomorrow s internet while
struggling with yesterday s infrastructure
technology.

12. Conclusions
 The Future Internet is a top priority in Norwegian
and European ICT Research Funding
 Europe and Norway are dependent on cutting edge
telecom infrastructures for keeping momentum in
innovation and value creation
 IPv6 roll-out is one of the prerequisites for
unleashing the innovation potential of Norway and
Europe

13. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
Till Christopher Lech
Senior Adviser VERDIKT / National Contact Point ICT in FP7
tcl@rcn.no
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