Among others, CEF Digital aims to stimulate the commercial offering of cloud services throughout the EU. The cloud capacity needs be strengthened and users provided with access to multiple computing resources as a result of the projects supported by CEF. New cloud infrastructures would also gradually need to be interconnected with other cloud, high-performance computing (HPC) and edge infrastructures.

The studies under this topic should explore the needs and prepare for future deployment of Gigabit links for the interconnection between socio-economic drivers, which are public administrations or public or private entities entrusted with the operation of services of general interest (SGIs) or of services of general economic interest (SGEIs), and backbone netwo