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| David Kennedy elected as successor to Dr. Claudio Carrelli |
01 July 2005 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. Eurescom has a new director. As of today, David Kennedy is leading the company. On 11 May, the general assembly of Eurescom had unanimously elected David Kennedy as the new director of Eurescom. He succeeded Dr. Claudio Carrelli, who retired at the end of June. |
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| The Eurescom Summit presents latest R&D trends in ubiquitous services and applications |
21 April 2005 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The vision of having communications services available whenever and wherever you need them is becoming reality. The Eurescom Summit 2005 in Heidelberg, which begins on Wednesday, 27 April, presents the latest R&D trends in 'Ubiquitous Services and Applications' that will come to the market in the near future. |
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| Cars will become personalised communication devices - EU project DAIDALOS |
08 December 2004 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Seamless handover from broadband internet connection at home to DVB-T connection in the car is one of the research results by EU project DAIDALOS, demonstrated at a public workshop in Stuttgart on 14 December 2004. |
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| Push for joint Israeli-European R&D projects in telecoms |
10 August 2004 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg/Tel Aviv. Eurescom, the European network operators' organisation for innovation in telecoms, and MATIMOP, the Israeli Industry Center for R&D, today signed an agreement for close R&D cooperation in telecommunications. |
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| Public procurement rules in Europe hamper innovation |
04 August 2004 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Public procurement rules in the European Union hamper the adoption of innovative products and services. Under the current procedures, the public sector is not encouraged to act as a launching customer for innovative products and services, researchers from EU project INNO-UTILITIES claim. |
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| France Télécom takes the chairmanship of the board of Eurescom |
19 July 2004 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. In a move that reflects France Télécom's increased commitment to collaborative R&D as a key mechanism for accelerating innovation, Michel Dupire from France Télécom was elected as the chairman of the board of governors of Eurescom, the European organisation for collaborative innovation in telecoms. |
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| Advancing innovative procurement in utilities |
04 November 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
In mid-October, the EU project INNO-UTILIITIES was launched at a kick-off meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. The main goal of the project is to develop innovative procurement processes in utilities focusing on telecommunications as a key enabler and exemplary utility. |
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| Pushing the integration of R&D and standardisation |
07 October 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Milan. ETSI and Eurescom have joined forces to push the integration of collaborative R&D and standardisation. In a jointly organised workshop at the IST 2003 conference in Milan on 4 October, they presented the new business opportunities that will emerge from an integrated approach to collaborative research and standardisation. |
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| New initiatives and broadband services at Summit 2003 |
30 September 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. At the opening of the Eurescom Summit 2003 in Heidelberg on 29 September, keynote speaker Leonardo Chariglione, the founder of the MPEG standards group for digital audio and video, announced a new initiative for untangling technical, economic and legal issues in customer access to digital media contents. |
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| Eurescom Summit 2003 focuses on user needs in the development of broadband technologies |
15 July 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The forthcoming Eurescom Summit 2003 in Heidelberg will present the latest R&D advances in user-focused broadband services. Under the title 'Evolution of Broadband Services', experts from major European, Asian, and American ICT companies will discuss from 29th September until 1st October how broadband services can satisfy user needs and succeed in the market. |
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| Unobtrusive technology for the information society |
17 June 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. By the end of the decade, information and communication technologies will have become ubiquitous, invisible, and fully adapted to the user's needs. This vision of the near future is summarised under the term Ambient Intelligence. Eurescom project PROFIT has analysed the social and economic aspects of information and communication technologies in Ambient Intelligence environments. The main result of their first investigations: detailed knowledge of distinctive user identities is crucial for designing successful services, applications, and user interfaces. |
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| XML have potential to transform Internet into a distributed application server of global dimensions |
26 May 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The Internet of today is a worldwide library, built on static HTML pages.
The Internet of tomorrow will be more: a global service machine, enabling to access any application on any server in the world. The integrating technology, which has the potential to make this service revolution come true, is called XML Web Services. |
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| Workshop presents new broadband services for the smart home |
13 March 2003 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. In the home of tomorrow, your washing machine will inform you via SMS that the laundry is ready, and it will communicate with the dishwasher to reduce energy consumption. Prototypes of these and many more networked home appliances already exist. At a workshop in Heidelberg from 20th to 21st March, international researchers and developers will discuss the latest advances under the title 'Broadband and Wireless Services in the Future Home'. |
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| Application interfaces based on Parlay/OSA will stimulate new communications services |
13 November 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. At the two-day Eurescom workshop 'OSA and Parlay @ Work' in Heidelberg, which started today, it evolved as a common belief that the Parlay/OSA standard for application interfaces to telecoms networks is now ready for deployment. Ard-Jan Moerdijk, chairman of 3GPP OSA, said in his keynote speech: 'Parlay/OSA is mature and ready for a major take-off'. |
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| High-level panel discussion on business perspectives of broadband at Eurescom Summit |
24 October 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. A high-level panel of decision-makers in European communications technology discussed the business perspectives of broadband services at the Eurescom Summit 2002 on Thursday, 24 October. |
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| Convergence was the key topic at the opening session of Eurescom Summit 2002 |
22 October 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Dr. Claudio Carrelli, director of Eurescom Heidelberg. The underlying theme at the first conference day of Eurescom Summit 2002 was 'integration'. In his opening speech, Dr. Claudio Carrelli, director of Eurescom, declared network integration to be the crucial factor for the success of future networks: 'Fixed-mobile integration will be more and more necessary.' |
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| The future of telecommunications networks |
18 October 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
The Eurescom Summit 2002 'Powerful Networks for Profitable Services' brings together leading international experts who shape the future of telecommunications networks. Three of them will participate in this press conference. They will inform you on the latest advances in network technology and the role of networks in enabling user-driven broadband applications. You are invited to ask our experts everything you ever wanted to know about future telecoms networks. |
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| Important step to better network performance |
15 October 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg/Rockville/Adastral Park. Today, Eurescom, Spirent Communications, and BTexact Technologies announced the completion of a test that confirms the feasibility of performance management for IP Quality of Service using Multiprotocol Label Switching. As a result of this test, service providers will be able to employ a simplified methodology for identifying the location of performance problems across multiple operator networks, and for verifying their capability to capture performance information at various classes of service. |
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| A new approach for better telecoms systems |
11 October 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. In September, an EU project co-ordinated by Eurescom started, which is as abstract as it is important: IST project MODA-TEL aims at nothing less than delivering blueprints for more effective telecoms systems. |
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| Eurescom Summit focuses on new telecom network technologies & their global business aspects |
16 September 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. Under the title 'Powerful Networks for Profitable Services', the Eurescom Summit 2002 in Heidelberg focuses on innovative network technologies and their commercial potential. From 21st to 24th October, international experts from leading telecom and IT companies will present the latest advances in optical networking, access networks, Next Generation Networks, traffic engineering, and many other areas of network technology. |
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| EURESCOM adopts new business approach to collaborative R&D |
17 May 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. On 1 July EURESCOM GmbH will expand its unique model of collaborative R&D beyond the domain of European telecom operators. The shareholders of EURESCOM unanimously approved a new business model and revised company statutes at their General Assembly in Heidelberg on 15 May. |
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| Projects P1110 and P1111 demonstrate innovative solutions |
13 March 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
At this year's CeBIT in Hanover, EURESCOM is represented by the projects P1110 on 'Open Service Access' and P1111 on 'Next-Gen open Service Solutions over IP'. |
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| The first wireless device for multiple networks |
12 March 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Premiere at the EURESCOM workshop 'Wireless Access' in Heidelberg: The EURESCOM project on 'Bluetooth Access' presented the first PDA, which can seamlessly connect to different access networks, like LAN, Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, and GPRS. |
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| EURESCOM workshop presented solutions for the open services market |
21 February 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
The EURESCOM workshop 'OSA and Parlay, Facilitating the Open Services Market' took place at the EURESCOM premises in Heidelberg from 19-20 February 2002. It attracted 127 attendees, who represented network operators, manufacturers, regulator, universities from Europe, America and Asia. At an exhibition area several leading vendors were showing their latest developments and products. |
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| Open service access in telecommunications networks |
15 February 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
EURESCOM workshop 'OSA and Parlay' will explore the technological challenges and business opportunities of open application programming interfaces for telecommunications. |
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| Best practice guidelines for the design of multilingual Web sites |
04 February 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
English dominates the Web. More than 80 per cent of the estimated 14 million Web sites are in English. But only 43 per cent of the over 400 million Internet users worldwide have English as their mother tongue. The number of non-English Internet users is expected to rise to 65 per cent in 2003. |
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| Location-based services for teenagers |
16 January 2002 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Mobile phones can do more than communicate voice and data. The ability to determine the physical location of a mobile phone enables a broad range of mobile services to be offered, including location tracking of users, customised local service information and navigation. A recent EURESCOM study explored the communication needs of teenagers, how they could be met by location-based services, and which location technology is best suited. |
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| Shareholders decide to restructure the organisation for future challenges |
21 December 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. 2002 will be a year of radical change at EURESCOM, the European institute for research and strategic studies in telecommunications. On 12 December this year, 16 shareholders decided to restructure the organisation to reflect the recent dramatic changes in the telecommunications market. This is to ensure EURESCOM will continue to be the leading collaborative R&D company in the telecommunications domain. |
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| EURESCOM offers European database on usage of information & communications technology |
26 November 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
The EURESCOM project P903 'ICT uses in everyday life' provides a deeper understanding of how users respond to current and new ICTs. It explains private use and non-use of the Internet and mobile services. This has been done through a combination of socio-demographic, behavioural, attitudinal, and life-style factors. |
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| Interoperability, network sharing and attractive applications |
16 November 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
How can third generation mobile broadband services be turned into profitable business? Eight high-level international experts discussed their different viewpoints on this question from different angles at the EURESCOM Summit 2001 on 14 November. |
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| EURESCOM Summit 2001 showed challenges & opportunities for 3G technologies & applications |
14 November 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
On Tuesday, the first day of the EURESCOM Summit 2001 in Heidelberg, about 160 international telecom experts discussed the challenges and opportunities of 3rd generation mobile technologies and applications. In his keynote speech, SAP's vice president for corporate research, Dr. Lutz Heuser, presented his company's view on the requirements for successful e-commerce via 3G. He emphasised the need for open platforms which are vital for the provisioning of global services. |
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| EURESCOM Summit 2002 will present powerful network solutions |
13 November 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
At the EURESCOM Summit on 'Powerful networks for profitable services' taking place on 21 to 24 October 2002 in Heidelberg, researchers from major telecoms players will show how important the underlying networks are for running successful and profitable telecommunication services. |
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| Revolutionary multimedia applications via UMTS |
08 November 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Multimedia applications are the key to the success of third-generation mobile networks. But we're not just talking in terms of personal entertainment and about being able to watch videos on the move. Two EURESCOM projects have explored the network and service architecture for the mobile usage of multimedia in areas like tele-medecine and business travel. EURESCOM researchers have created the foundations of an advanced multimedia database, which paves the way for revolutionary applications through optical data search. |
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| How to make UMTS a success |
04 September 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
UMTS technology is ready for take-off. Researchers from major telecomms players in Europe and Japan have explored technologies and applications, which will enable a successful deployment of 3G networks and services. Most of them will present their new solutions for the first time at the EURESCOM Summit 2001 taking place in Heidelberg from 12 to 15 November. |
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| Conference in Heidelberg explores ways to strengthen R&D & generate higher returns through innovation |
18 May 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. International telecom experts expressed their concern about the decreasing investments in R&D in Europe at a two-day conference organised by EURESCOM on 16 and 17 May. 'I am concerned about the low demand for research and innovation in Europe,' said Dr. Hagen Hultzsch, chairman of the supervisory board of T-Venture, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary for venture capital. The experts identified several reasons for this negative trend. 'Business units view R&D mainly as a cost rather than an investment,' explained David Kennedy, senior manager at EURESCOM. |
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| Lack of research threatens share value of telecom operators |
02 May 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The future prospects of telecommunication companies highly depend on their innovative power and the introduction of profitable new services. But the relative importance of R&D in the telecom sector has gone down, according to Dr. Claudio Carrelli, the director of the European telecom research institute EURESCOM. |
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| The future of modern Telecommunications networks lies in the Internet-Protocol Mobile IP |
26 April 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
How do you integrate such diverse access technologies like ISDN, ADSL, GSM, Bluetooth and UMTS? The experts of the European telecom research institute EURESCOM have the answer, it consists of two letters: IP. As a current EURESCOM project has examined, the Internet Protocol with the extension Mobile IP fulfils all requirements, in order to function as a core network for mobile and fixed access technologies. |
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| EURESCOM celebrates its 10th anniversary with a high-level conference |
01 March 2001 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
EURESCOM, the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications, will celebrate its 10th anniversary in May with a look into the future. On 16 and 17 May a high-level conference will be held on the EURESCOM premises in Heidelberg. The participants will discuss how applied research influences the profitability and the share value of telecommunications organisations. |
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| Access networks in Europe and Japan |
07 December 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
A delegation of JEITA, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, visited the EURESCOM headquarters on their study mission to Europe for an information meeting on 7th December 2000. The six members of the high-speed access network sub-committee of JEITA's Network Technology Committee, most of them senior engineers from major Japanese IT companies, are visiting selected companies in Germany and France to find trends of up-to-date technologies in Europe. |
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| Work Programme for 2001 endorsed by EURESCOM governors |
24 November 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. At their meeting on 22 November 2000 the EURESCOM Board of Governors endorsed a draft Work Programme for 2001 containing 22 existing projects that will continue after 2000 and 19 new projects to start early in 2001. A large majority of the projects that will start in 2001 are addressing Internet related issues. The Internet has a key role for enabling new businesses, and all shareholders of EURESCOM have a special interest in promoting this area. |
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| The EURESCOM workshop on Hybrid Networks presents new services and products |
15 November 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The convergence of different network technologies is one of the most interesting topics in telecommunications. Unsurprisingly, EURESCOM's workshop on Hybrid Networks, which started on 15th November at the EURESCOM headquarters in Heidelberg, attracted more than 100 experts from telecom and IT companies. |
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| Convergence of services and networks towards IP |
27 October 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. The setting up of EURESCOM's work programme for 2001 is approaching its final phase. After a tough selection process from projects proposed by the EURESCOM shareholders there are currently 32 research projects in the final choice. Their topics give an idea of the innovative trends for the next years. Dominant topics for next year are UMTS, Quality of Service and convergence towards IP. |
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| AIMS 2000 workshop on Applied IP and Multimedia Services opened by Dr. Carrelli |
25 October 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. Which network technologies and multimedia services will succeed on the marketplace? This is one of the questions to be explored at the AIMS 2000 workshop on Applied IP and Multimedia Services that started at EURESCOM in Heidelberg today, 25 October. |
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| Conference Telecom IT 2000 will focus on integration |
07 September 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
At the Telecom IT 2000 conference in Frankfurt CEOs and R&D professionals from international telecommunication and IT companies meet on 11-12 October in Frankfurt. The conference is focused on the integration of IT in telecommunication. Its main purpose is to help decision-makers understand new and emerging technologies before making critical investment decisions. |
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| EURESCOM proposes XML interfaces for interconnection |
01 September 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
EURESCOM's proposals for common standards for XML-based OSS interconnection have found prominent recognition by an article published in the recent issue of TELOSSOURCE Magazine. The authors, Alexandre Haeffner and Jason Donahue from Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, recognize EURESCOM's special approach. It takes into account the structure of the European communications market and also leverages a much cleaner set of OSS interconnection interfaces compared to the U.S. telecom experience. |
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| Japanese parliament delegation at EURESCOM |
28 August 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg. On 27th August a delegation of the Japanese parliament visited EURESCOM on their information trip to Europe. The delegation consisted of four members of the Diet communications committee and three accompanying representatives from the House of Representatives, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and from Japan Broadcasting Corporation. |
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| Paving the way to real broadband access |
08 August 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Heidelberg, Germany, 8 August 2000, Good news for operators and service providers who want to give their customers fast access to advanced multimedia contents: The broadband access technology will soon be mature for the mass market. In a joint research project by EURESCOM basic improvements have been initiated for more efficient broadband access technology. |
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| IEEE Conference discussed latest developments in information technology |
01 July 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
Between 1995 and 1999 3442 companies worldwide tried to make money as Web start-ups. 20 per cent were forced to declare bankruptcy after a short period of time. Only a small percentage had the courage to go public and trade at the stock exchange. Share issues were profitable for only 1 per cent of the new start-ups. |
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