Telefónica I+D (TID, SP)

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Telefónica I+D, Spain, was created in 1988 to contribute to the technological innovation of the parent company Telefónica de España, by performing research and development activities. Over the last few years, the line of work at Telefónica I+D has evolved to conform to the objective of becoming a service creation lab. This objective is driven by the emergence of interactive services, which are increasingly becoming a major force in the telecommunications market. Telefónica I+D employs over 831 people. 87% of them hold a University degree. Telefónica I+D is active in the following major areas:

• Service creation related to telephony, interactive, mobile, media and public use telecommunications.
• Network and services management, using solutions based on the latest TMN standards.
• Network innovation, with the purpose of supporting Telefónica in its effort to offer the widest possible range of services.

Telefónica I+D bases its work on the use of the most advanced and competitive concepts and media. This requires thorough knowledge of suitable technical capabilities over a range of basic technologies. The company has in depth expertise in formal methods, object oriented design and programming systems, software engineering tools, real time systems, databases and knowledge bases, A.I. toolkits, knowledge representation and reasoning, man machine interface, and software tools for network simulation. The company has a computer centre, a micro software development tools group, testing laboratories, and special laboratories, such as an optical transmission, Human Factors, and a video services laboratory. All the activities in Telefónica I+D are carried out conforming to an in house methodology, supported by tools, which has been awarded an ISO 9001 Certification in 1994 and ISO 14001 since 1998.

Telefónica I+D has participated in numerous European projects: twenty ACTS, seven ESPRIT, and several EUREKA, CTS, COST and BRITE. Furthermore, Telefónica I+D is one of the Spanish users of the Paneuropean ATM Pilot. Telefónica I+D houses one of the sites of the Spanish National Host, to which it has contributed its own ATM switching, transmission and supervision technology (RECIBA). Telefónica I+D is also very active in EURESCOM, participating in over twenty projects.

Key people: Pedro Concejero Cerezo, Paulo Villegas

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