[Fiware-opencall-help] FIWARE-LAB-OPEN-CALL-2015: Clarification on Backbone Requirements

[Theofanis Katsiaounis]

Dear Sir/Madam,
i am writing on behalf of Neuropublic S.A. a Greek based company running 
an active node in FIWARE Lab (PiraeusN). Our node has been a part of 
Fiware Lab (XIFi not FICORE) since April 2014 and has achieved a very 
good performance level (very stable node) and a Gold Level Node on 
Recognition & Reward program.

In the process of studying FIWARE-LAB-OPEN-CALL-2015 we noticed that 
there is a requirement for the Fiware Lab nodes to have a backbone 
connection of 1Gb capacity without specific requirements as to how this 
connection might be implemented.

The cost of getting such a line provision for about 15 months will be a 
serious reduction from the money that could be used to purchase 
additional hardware and secure more resources for our users.

To this point and since we already are in Fiware Lab  and we already 
have implemented a solution based on L3VPN (connecting to Red IRIS in 
Spain) with lower speeds (currently about 100Mbit) which up to now have 
proved more than adequate (it is actually underutilized) we were 
wondering if it will be possible to use the same solution in our 
proposal for FIWARE-LAB-OPEN-CALL-2015. Moreover if there is a need for 
extra capacity we are fully prepared to upgrade  to 200-300Mbit still 
using the L3VPN solution though.

We have discussed the L3VPN solution with RedIRIS and the guaranteed us 
that they will continue supporting the connection through FICORE since 
they are in the project.

Since the closing date of the open call is approaching i would like to 
have a reply as soon as possible.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,
Theofanis Katsiaounis


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