Future Internet testbeds / experimentation between BRazil and Europe (FIBRE) is a research project co-funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Council for Scientific and Technological Development or CNPq) of Brazil and the European Commission under the seventh of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FP7).
The project claimed it would design, implementation and validate a shared Future Internet research facility, enabling experimental research into network infrastructure and distributed applications.
It is envisaged that a researcher will be allocated a slice of resources across the whole network, consisting of a portion of network links, packet processing elements (e.g. routers) and end-hosts; researchers can program their slices to behave as they wish.
FIBRE is composed of several experimentation nodes, called islands, across Europe and Brazil.
Two of the three European islands are based on a part of the Future Internet Research and Experimentation project called OpenFlow in Europe (OFELIA) that used OpenFlow deployed by the University of Bristol and the i2CAT Foundation in Barcelona.