European LOBSTER project finished successfully

The objective of the LOBSTER project was to deploy a pan-european monitoring infrastructure for high-speed links (up to 10 Gbps) and to solve problems related to distributed monitoring and anonymization of captured data. Anonymization is overly important for large monitoring infrastructures so that the captured data may be made available to other subjects besides the particular link provider.

Successful independent review of project results meant an official end of LOBSTER, the IST (Information Society Technologies Programme) project under FP6 co-financed by the EU research and development funds. The project started in October 2004 and finished in June 2007. CESNET was the only Czech participant alongside the following eight consortium members from six European countries: Greek research institute FORTH, Norwegian academic network UNINETT, Dutch university Vrije universiteit, TERENA organization, and commercial partners such as Symantec, ALCATEL, FORTHnet and TNO.

The CESNET association was founded by universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The association is currently financed mainly from the resources of the governmental Committee for Research and Education and the resources of the members of the association. The association deals with the research and development of information and communication technologies, building and developing the national gigabit optical network, CESNET2, designed for research and educational purposes. With its research activities and accomplishments, the CESNET association can represent the Czech Republic in the pan-European GÉANT2 network construction project as well as other international projects.