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The global WAN infrastructure originally followed the hierarchical structure in the telephony networks. The present evolution is going in the direction of uncoordinated loosely coupled ad hoc networks without an overall commonly agreed upon architecture. The convergence towards a unified global WAN platform, providing a comprehensive set of services spanning from best effort to guaranteed high quality services, sets the agenda for the design and implementation of the next generation Global Information Infrastructure. These problems were presented and discussed during the Extraordinary Brainstorming Panel: “EC FP7 Call 5” at the SW09 at Rebild, Denmark, May 15–17, 2009. There was a general consensus on the need for initiatives to ensure an improved and needed long term evolution towards a more well organized and structured approach to identify the key parameters for a new global ICT Infrastructure Reference Architecture. This paper reflects some of the elements of the discussions, some examples presented and some initiatives taken in order to follow up on the conclusions.

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    Ole Brun Madsen

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Madsen, O.B. Improved ICT Infrastructure. Wireless Pers Commun 53, 431–435 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-9955-1

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