Functional enhancement strategy for GEMnet

In order to promote the development of new businesses quickly in the field of information sharing services, it is becoming increasingly important to p romote service field tests based on actual network environments efficiently . Global Enhanced Multifunctional Network (GEMnet), the construction of whi ch is being promoted by NTT Laboratories, is a testbed equipped with the ne west network environments to facilitate these kinds of field tests. This pa per outlines the basic configuration that GEMnet will take on in the future , as well as the functional enhancement strategy for GEMnet, with describin g the results of various R&D activities on the next-generation network tech nologies conducted up to now at NTT Laboratories.