Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I.) of Athens (TEI-A)

website: http://www.teiath.gr

The Technological Educational Institution of Athens (T.E.I.-Athens) was founded in 1983. It is an independent, self-administrating academic institution which comes under the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs of the Hellenic Republic. Its main goals are the high level training and education of students and the applied technological research. The students of the T.E.I. of Athens acquire knowledge and skills which correspond to the current evolution of technology and science. After their graduation, it is expected that they will play an important role to the effort of maintaining a bond between the academic theory and the application of the technology according to the needs of the domestic and the European market. This is also ensured by the existing undergraduate curricula of the departments which are continuously upgraded by actions performed under the framework of the Education and Initial Vocational Training Program funded by the EU (75%) and the Hellenic Republic (25%). In order to succeed to its mission, the T.E.I. of Athens collaborates with the industry, companies and generally with organizations of public or private interest. At the same time, it collaborates with universities and other technological educational institutions in Greece or other European countries, such as with the School of Engineering, Design and Technology of the University of Bradford U.K. and the School of Engineering and Design of Brunel University on postgraduate research programmes.

The T.E.I. of Athens participates in various European and national research projects which are under the scope of several frameworks such as: Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and the Third Community Support framework’s operational programmes (INTERREG III B ARCHIMED, Operation Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training, ARCHMEDES I & II). In most of these projects, the T.E.I. acts as a coordinator (FP6-PROMET, ARCHMEDES I & II etc) in parallel with the ongoing research activities. Furthermore, at the T.E.I. of Athens, we have developed the Telecoms and e-Activities research group (www.ee.teiath.gr/tea). Our interests include WiMAX networks design and real environment measurements.

Ubiqam

website: http://www.ubiqam.com

Ubiqam is a developer of innovative wireless infrastructure solutions. Using Ubiqam's solution, operators can offer quadruple-play broadband services using a single standard wireless technology infrastructure. The solution, completely relieves wireless operators from their dependency on traditional wireline providers when offering bundled voice and data broadband services at home, at work or on the go.

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE)

website: http://www.ote.gr

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. (OTE) is the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece, and was founded in 1949 by the Greek State. OTE is the dominant public switched voice telephony provider in Greece and together with its subsidiaries forms the leading group of companies nationwide in Fixed Mobile and Internet services.

One of OTE's primary targets is to adapt its network to new technologies in a systematic, effective and integrated way. For this reason, applied Research is undertaken at the OTE Research Laboratories, in cooperation with the Industry and Academia. The Labs are equipped with modern telecommunications equipment and testbeds so that new technologies are tested and simulated in a micro version of a complete telecommunications network.

OTE Wireless Research Lab is equipped with a testbed in WiMAX and WiFi that along with AAA, IPTV servers, VoIP platforms and advanced measuring equipment form an innovative testing lab for a prototype wireless system.

AT4 wireless S.A.

website: http://www.at4wireless.com/

AT4 wireless is a private technological centre which aims to provide its clients with solutions and technologies to make their products and services secure and more efficient in the following areas:

-       Test Systems: providing conformance and interoperability test systems solutions in the field of mobile and wireless technologies.

-       Laboratories: providing global testing services according to international standards (EMC, safety, mobile, wireless, etc.). AT4 wireless is currently accredited as testing laboratory for GSM, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiMAX.

-       Engineering and Solutions: developing added value products, tools and platforms and building special customer solutions in different fields (such as industrial production, logistic, digital home or eHealth), where wireless technologies are essential.

AT4 wireless has not only sound expertise in the underlying technologies, such as GSM, UMTS, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, UWB, RFID and NFC, but also joins the main related Industry fora such as NFC Forum, Bluetooth SIG, Wi-Fi Alliance, WiMAX Forum and WiMedia Alliance. Furthermore, as member of standardization organizations such as ETSI and 3GPP, AT4 wireless’s know-how is up-to-date with regard to next generation architectures and new network paradigms.

The R&D activities are mainly focus on the following areas: innovative test methodologies, test specifications and test tools development. The first ones deal with researching of innovative test methodologies using as foundations sound standards such as ISO-9646 and ISO-10746. Development of test specifications for Interoperability and Conformance testing: PICS, TSS&TP and ATS. Regarding test tools, AT4 wireless has capabilities to develop test tools for wireless/mobile technologies. Exiting products include RIDER (Radiofrequency Identification tester), BITE (Bluetooth RF Conformance Tester) and MINT (Mobile Communication Integration Tester for 2G, 3G and WiMAX).

Codium Networks S.L. (CODIUM)

website: http://www.codiumnetworks.com/

CODIUM is probably Southern Europe’s Nº1 independent Systems Integrator dedicated to the design and implementation of WiMAX networks. Incorporated in 2003 CODIUM was driven from the outset by the vision that only through a very specific set of performance and technical capabilities (such as MIMO, beam forming, AAS, etc. which today form the bulk of the so-called “wave 2” 802.16e standard.) would WiMAX ultimately succeed as a commercially viable technology. Keeping faith with what was at the time a radical approach to WiMAX, CODIUM began designing and rolling-out networks based on the Navini Networks RIPWAVE™ product (most probably the first commercially available product to incorporate the above mentioned technical capabilities) in late 2003.

At the time of writing CODIUM has deployed field-trials, and bona-fide commercially operated networks in six countries within the ‘southern EMEA’ region. Furthermore CODIUM has acted as lead-contributor in several winning bids in public tenders on a local, national and EU-level.

The company’s turn-key approach to projects has meant that it has developed extensive experience and know-how in business case analysis and business modelling on behalf of WiMAX operators as well as in the more technical core disciplines of high-end system integration and RF engineering. CODIUM currently works for several major network operators including a leading African GSM operator and one of Southern Europe’s largest cable franchises.

DesignArt Networks Ltd. (DesignArt)

website: http://www.designartnetworks.com/

DesignArt Networks is a fabless semiconductor company driving the evolution of the mobile multi-media network infrastructure through development of highly integrated System-on-Chip (SoC) silicon platform solutions.

As streaming and distribution of media rich content continues to drive fixed and mobile wireless services, the pressure is on the wireless network infrastructure to evolve, provide more service capacity, denser market coverage and increased building penetration. The DesignArt WiMAX SoC platform is the only comprehensive silicon platform that supports the full scope of this network infrastructure evolution. Based on a single silicon design platform, equipment vendors are able to build the complete portfolio of indoor and outdoor base stations, required to bring fixed, nomadic and mobile multi-media services to the market. DesignArt’s SoC silicon platform solutions are designed with the goal to substantially lower the total cost of the wireless network infrastructure, while supporting high-density deployments and the high-performance service requirements of future mobile multi-media services.

The distinctive and patented design of the DesignArt WiMAX SoC silicon platform combines unique capabilities to support concurrent WiMAX service access and multiple backhaul links on a single-chip.