Panlab presented its major results during the seminar that was held on 13-14 May 2008, in Dinard, France (Bretagne). A number of speakers representing various organisations and projects, developing different kinds of testing facilities, presented their recent achievements and ideas for the future. The presentations from Panlab Seminar are available for download on the Panlab project website.

Local support for the seminar organisation was provided by Thomson R&D France and the Media and Networks Cluster “Pôle Images et Réseaux”. The Media and Network Cluster includes 154 organisations and focuses among others on the facilitation of testing approaches in the networked and media area, as stated by Ms. Christiane Schwartz, President of the Cluster, in her keynote speech.

Main Conclusions

It was outlined that the establishment of a Panlab organisation as an entity, in charge of facilitating the European testbed infrastructure, will ensure sustainability of numerous testing facilities developed by industry and collaborative projects, giving opportunity for a wide community to explore and further use them, in order to improve experimentally based R&D activities. Thereby, the economical advantage in providing and using the federated testing facilities is recognised by both big industry and SME’s. Important characteristics of the Panlab concept, its openness and neutrality were emphasised and acknowledged. From a technological point of view, the proposed incremental development of the Panlab concept and test-bed federation is seen as an important factor. Finally, it was concluded that Panlab services should be available world-wide, in order to take advantage of a global cooperation by all interested parties.

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