Martel also performs “traditional” consultancy work in telecommunications - typically related to the Internet and satellite communications.
Martel is currently the co-ordinator for the EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project 6DEPLOY (IPv6 deployment and support) and is assisting Thomson in the management of the FP6 project Haggle (An innovative Paradigm for Autonomic Opportunistic Communication) and the FP7 project NANODATACENTERS. We are also helping the Italian National Research and Education Network (NREN) GARR to manage the FP7 project FEDERICA (Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures). Support was also given recently to Telefonica for the management of the FP6 project EuQoS (End-to-end QoS across heterogeneous networks) and in FP5 to Cisco for managing 6NET (Large-scale International IPv6 Pilot Network).
Martel also has technical competence in a broad range of technologies including: Premium IP, IPv6, Mobile IP, WLAN, agent technologies, IP-over-optics. It has also performed consultancy for the European Space Agency in the area of on-board processing, and advised Kenya Telkom Ltd. on the upgrading of their telecommunications network.
Martel employees have also taken responsibility in the past for many activities that have provided support for the Commission, for example as rapporteur for consultation meetings and other events. In FP6, Martel provided the Chairman of the BB4All Cluster.
Persons working on the project:
Martin Potts
Sandra Wittwer
Alicia Higa

