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The UCOL project intends to demonstrate experimentally the performance and the flexibility, in the context of LANs, of a coherent multichannel system; it is to be stressed that this project is unique, in that it adopts an all-round approach to the development of a system aiming to provide integrated support of narrowband and broadband services (data,voice and video) directed at the needs of specific market segments. This means that the project addresses both technology issues (specific of the physical layer) and the development of the necessary higher layers, for management and resource allocation for example, thereby insuring that the mutual interdependences are taken into account. The basic feasibility of the key building blocks of the network concept under development has already been demonstrated.
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Capolupo, D., Fioretti, A., Forcesi, S., Neri, E. (1989). UCOL: Evolution of the System Concept During the Realization Phase. In: Esprit ’89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1063-8_75
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