GIGACONNECTIVITY Lab aims to address the growing need to provide the industry, application developers, and research centers in Spain and Europe with a scalable testing system in telecommunications, the internet of the future, and new technologies, making it accessible to the financial and technological capabilities of the industry, application developers, and research centers. The main goal is to create a federation of laboratories that offers a realistic and complete emulation and testing environment, allowing for the faithful reproduction of various application scenarios of GigaConnectivity technologies at the local level. The interconnection of laboratories will provide the industry and research centers with a unified service. The testing environment will be configurable and remotely accessible, reflecting the different aspects of the target locations, as well as the network infrastructures (telephone lines, power grids, coaxial cables, etc.) typically present in these environments and the signals interacting within them. The underlying idea is to create a testing area for the development of new products, applications, and services in the field of home telecommunications networks. It is designed as an open solution where third partiesmainly companiescan carry out their own developments. As a result, new testing and validation methods can be employed, reducing the time and cost necessary between when a new element or service is validated in a research laboratory and when it can be applied in real-world environments. The scenarios covered in this project mainly focus on the home environment (In-Home), but can also be applied to larger-scale environments such as hotels, hospitals, or museums (In-Building). The outcome of the project will be beneficial for manufacturers, who will have an environment to test their developments and ensure compatibility with other devices or proper functionality in realistic and reliable scenarios. Application and service developers will also benefit from an environment with real limitations and components, allowing them to carry out advanced validation phases and facilitate the inclusion and active participation of new roles in the internet of the future paradigm (advanced users and content-producing users). Furthermore, the knowledge of the studied scenarios generated during this project will lead to new solutions and improvements in the field of home networks, helping to overcome some of the current limitations of the technologies in this area.
