The TRILOGY project, an EU-funded project which could bring more powerful broadband connections, has received the Future Internet Award for its outstanding contribution to the Internet architecture and protocols, which could help provide Europeans with faster, more reliable Internet connections.

The Future Internet Award, which is granted in the framework of the Future Internet Week, has been awarded to the TRILOGY project. The three year €9.2 million project, funded in part under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, brought together researchers and companies from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, UK and the US to find methods of managing traffic so that congestion at choke points of the network is minimised, thus resulting in better quality connections for Internet users.

The award acknowledges European research efforts in developing the future Internet, in the context of ever-increasing traffic that is seeing broadband networks overloaded by new applications and video streaming demands. The results of the TRILOGY project are already being taken up by the ICT industry and integrated into open source and other commercially available operating systems to ensure that Internet connections become more resilient and flexible for all users.

The Future Internet Awards promote the best European national and regional future Internet initiatives. The award acknowledges European research efforts in developing the future Internet, in the context of ever-increasing traffic that is seeing broadband networks overloaded by new applications and video streaming demands. The award was announced in the closing session of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA), part of the overall Future Internet Week (24-28 October) held in Poznan, Poland. The Assembly brings together European projects working in the Future Internet field and provides a discussion platform for the latest research results and developments.