The Information, Communication and Entertainment Technologies (ICT) sector is considered one of the most dynamic in the economy and is essential for both people and companies. From an economic point of view, it stands out for its predominance of small companies. In 2021, the ICT sector recorded a turnover of 16.6 billion euros, with exports totaling 4.8 billion euros.
Due to its cross-cutting nature, the ICT sector impacts the modernization of various vertical sectors, such as the environment and sustainability, health, mobility, culture and leisure. However, it also faces challenges, such as:
- Lack of interoperability between systems: often, different systems are unable to communicate with each other or exchange information in a standardized way, which makes it difficult to integrate systems of different types and manufacturers;
- Difficulty managing large-scale IoT devices: managing IoT devices can be complex, especially when it comes to large numbers of devices distributed in different locations;
- Difficulty in guaranteeing the security of sensitive data: data security is a major concern in the ICT sector, especially when it comes to sensitive data such as financial or health information;
- Difficulty in guaranteeing the performance and availability of applications: guaranteeing the performance and availability of applications is crucial in the ICT sector, where users are increasingly demanding in terms of quality of service;
- Difficulty in analyzing and transforming data into useful information: companies often have access to large amounts of data, but have difficulty transforming this data into useful information for making informed decisions.
The DNS testbed provides technological services to overcome these challenges and test and experiment with innovative solutions for interconnecting systems, managing IoT devices, authentication and authorization for secure access to resources, container orchestration for deploying and managing applications in the cloud, monitoring application performance and integrity, and data analysis for optimizing services.
