The goal of the ALPHA project will be pursued by creating a versatile development and complex test environment that will be used to assess the architectural and transmission solutions proposed in the other workpackages. This environment will be based on three project testbeds that will be used to assess the network solutions under investigation.
These three testbeds include:
- Single-mode fibre- based Access-Home testbed with Radio-over-fibre functionality at Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom in France (ALF-FT testbed).
- Access-Home testbed with the mixed fibre-based physical layer and independent test-pilots at Acreo in Sweden (Acreo testbed)
- Home Network with Simulated Home Environment based on the ALPHA physical layer technologies and with support of femto-nodes at Telefonica in Spain (TID testbed)
The test beds will represent the various technologies and domains studied in the project as well as include interfaces between those technologies/domains. The testbeds will be used for testing the network solutions under investigation including the various physical and MAC layer solutions, control and management planes solutions, various services such as the 2G/3G/B3G transport, as well as for testing inter-domain interworking and compatibility.