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Case study
ATHENA: Developing Infrastructures for Broadband Access using the
Digital TV Switchover
In June 2002 during the Sevilla European Council [1], Europe indicated that two major
problems (among the others) have to be solved towards eEurope 2005 and beyond. The
two targeted issues are (as they appear in the Sevilla document) the “Digital
Switchover” (i.e. the transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting), and
the “Broadband access for all European citizens” (i.e. the reduction of the digital
divide between western and newly-joining eastern societies) [2].
In this context, a consortium of 12 partners from 7 European countries (France,
Germany, England, Italy, Greece, Romania, and Switzerland) from industry and academia
has started an ambitious research and development initiative called ATHENA (www.istathena.
org).
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