The main objective of the BANITS2 project is to continue extending the existing knowledge in the areas of Metropolitan and Access Networks introduced by the original project BANITS, establishing mechanisms to enable a significant expansion of services for both residential and business environments. BANITS2 keeps the focus on reuse and optimization of existing access and metropolitan infrastructures, extending its scope of use to systems such as xDSL/DSLAMs, fiber-based access (PON), fiber rings, WDM and/or SONET/SDH, with native support for RPR technologies and maintaining the paradigm of Ethernet end-to-end technology.

This project is within the European CELTIC initiative and therefore, it is an international collaborative project undertaken by a consortium of entities. The consortium consists of ten partners from four countries: Telefónica I + D (Spain), project leader, Corrigent Systems (Israel), ECI Telecom (Israel), Ericsson (Sweden), LMI-Ericssson (Ireland), FTW (Austria), Inelcom (Spain), Lund University (Sweden), Optibase Ltd. (Israel), Foundation-Tecnalia Robotiker (Spain), UpZide Labs (Sweden), UPV/EHU (Spain). The Spanish consortium formed by Telefonica I + D, INELCOM, UPV/EHU and the Foundation Robotiker-Tecnalia have obtained funding from the Strategic Action for Telecommunications and Information Society, Subprogramme ‘Avanza I+D’.