EUREKA: A pan-European network for market-oriented, industrial R&D

Madeira, not just a garden island in the Atlantic, but also now a new research project in the European portfolio for the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG). Kicking off in July of 2004, in the home of Ericsson in Stockholm, Madeira, a CELTIC Initiative project in the European Union EUREKA program, will carry out research in the area of large-scale telecommunications networks.

EUREKA is a pan-European program for market-oriented, industrial research and development (R&D). This program supports the competitiveness of European companies through international collaboration, in creating links and networks of innovation.

Within the EUREKA program, CELTIC is a new initiative supporting R&D in telecommunications, which involves industry, academia and the Public Authorities. Its main objective is to maintain Europe's leading position in industrial competitiveness in telecommunications as well as to ensure European leadership in the digital society.

Thanks to these initiatives the Madeira project will provide novel technologies for communication Network Management Systems. And the TSSG finds itself in good company on the project with Ericsson, Siemens, Tecsidel, and the BT Group partnering to achieve the research objectives.

These objectives include data modelling and design techniques enabling adaptive management system components. And it is in this space of data modelling that the TSSG will be applying its research; exploring and selecting a best of breed approach to network management data modelling. The overall project will also contribute to a pan-European research laboratory through shared artefacts and common case studies among partners.

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