Celtic Excellence Awards 2011

   


Celtic Award Winners
 
  Every year the Celtic Core Group selects the 3 best Celtic projects for the Celtic Excellence Award. This year we had so many excellent projects that we had enormous difficulties to select the three best of them. In particular two of them were so strong and excellent that the core group decided for the first time that both projects should receive the Gold Award: WINNER+ and 100GET. RUBENS, as the third project, will receive the Bronze Award.
  Bronze Award:
 

RUBENS

 The RUBENS project was active between February 2008 and January 2010. 9 organizations from 6 countries participated in this 6 million euro project.

The project coordinator was Steven van den Berghe from Alcatel-Lucent in Belgium.

Rubens worked on a technology that allows a better use of the installed bandwidth and goes one step further towards the new business strategy towards smarter networks that offer an increased Quality of Experience (QoE). The Rubens solution was shown to the Board of Directors of some of the partner organisations and quite substantial follow-up activities have been decided in most of the participating companies. In addition the project generated a significant number of standards contributions.

Because of these important achievements and the expected high impact on future business the Celtic project RUBENS has bee awarded for the Celtic Excellence Award in Bronze

  
  Gold Award:    
  WINNER+ started its activities already as EU-FP6 project and continued and finalised its work as Celtic project in 2010. 27 organisations from 9 countries participated in this 13 million euro project.

The project was led by Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.

The project had a strong international impact in shaping the technology choices and standards for the fourth generation (4G) wireless communication technologies. The project achieved an important number of 59 contributions to ITU, 3GPP and ECC standardisation bodies that was the initial goal of the project, thus paving the way to future roll-out of LTE-Advanced (Release 10). In addition the project was elected as one of the external evaluation group in the ITU-R that is elaborating IMT-Advanced. There is a huge expected market potential for this new 4G mobile technology which will strengthen the strong position of the European industry in this area.

Because of these excellent and outstanding results the WINNER+ project receives the Celtic Excellence Award in Gold.

Winner+ has been selected and published as EUREKA success story

  
  Gold Award:    
  100GET, actually, should be more considered as a cluster project as it was composed of 6 individual but linked subprojects, each in the size of a rather big Celtic project:
  • 100GET-AL
  • 100GET-E3
  • 100GET-ER
  • 100GET-es
  • 100GET-METRO
  • 100GET-Horizontal

In the 100GET project 40 organizations from 5 countries participated between October 2007 and December 2010.

This 65 million euro project was coordinated by Kurt Loesch from Alcatel-Lucent, Germany, Thomas Michaelis and Rainer Derksen from Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.

The project was focusing on the development of 100 Gbps Ethernet based carrier-grade transport networks (“Ethernet across the entire network”). The project has realized an impressive work that was worth the investment and performed world class research especially on the area of optical layers where a number of new devices have been developed. Also in the area of networking the results have been very promising as they cover a broad field in optical communications. Attention was given to different important aspects including multilayer planning, advanced switching and routing, techno-economic evaluation, etc. The project realized 21 new products, improved another 15 products, filed 56 patents, contributed to 32 standards and performed 53 pilots to mention only the most important achievements.

Because of these excellent and outstand results the project 100GET receives the Celtic Excellence Award in Gold.

see also 100GET press release (issued by Nokia Siemens Netwroks).

100GET has been selected and published as EUREKA success story