Telecommunications Workshop Dublin, Nov 1 st /2 nd Dr Roisin Cheshire, SFI

1. Telecommunications WorkshopDublin, Nov 1st/2ndDr Roisin Cheshire, SFI

2. Science Foundation Ireland • SFI is an Irish government agency reporting to the Dept of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation. • Established in 2000 • Currently led by interim Director General, Dr Graham Love • 2 Directorates, LifeSciences and ICET (Information, Communication and Emergent Technologies) • ~ 50 staff of which 22 are Scientific Programme Managers • Responsibility for a budget of a yearly budget of €140-170M; • 2011 Budget is 162M 

3. Core SFI Programmes

4. Suite of SFI Programmes • Recruitment • Stokes • PIYRA • ETS Walton Visitors • Research Professor • Industry Interaction • Technology and Innovation Development Award (TIDA) Outreach • UREKA • Conf & Workshop • Career Advancement • SIRG (Starter Investigator Research Grant) • PICA Access Programme • Tyndall NAP • ICHEC • Collaborative • US-Ireland R&D Partnership • Short Term Travel Fellowship (STTF) • International Research Partnerships • North South Supplements

5. US-Ireland Partnership Programme • A cooperation between the United States, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland “to increase the level of collaborative R&D among researchers and industry across the three jurisdictions that should generate innovations and lead to improvements in healthcare, disease prevention and other technologies.“ • Partnership, officially launched in 2006 • Peer review of a tri-partite proposal with funding from 3 jurisdictions

6. Participating Agencies & Priority Areas • Nanotechnology • Sensor technology • Energy • Telecommunications • Diabetes • Cystic fibrosis

7. US-Ireland Research Partnerships – 8 projects funded

8. Why invest in Telecommunications? • Telecomms industry employs over 20,000 people in Ireland • Significant Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – Bell Labs Ireland, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, ARRIS, IBM, Xilinx • Indigenous companies – Intune Networks, Firecomms, Eblana, Socowave, Lake Communications, Benetel, Altobridge, Taoglas • Progressive regulator- ComRegoperates a novel spectrum licensing regime to encourage innovation and development involving new radio technologies or services • Government Support: • Exemplar network is a DCENR initiative to build a €20M national test-bed built using Irish SME Intune Networks technology. Current industry partners using the Exemplar Test-bed include British Telecom, Ericsson, Openet, Amartus, HEAnet, Cybercom, Imagine, ESB Telecom, Sensecom and Digiweb. • SmartBayGalway national research infrastructure project with a network of buoys, seafloor cables, supporting a range of sensors, information systems, telemetry and other communication technologies. .

9. Why invest in Telecommunications? Telecomms industry underpins a wide range of business in Ireland • Ebusiness • Cloud computing • Data centres • Financial Services • Personalised Healthcare • Software Development • Gaming • Localisation • Renewable Energy .

10. Core Industry already here in IrelandIndigenous and FDI

11. Research Topics • Wireless Networks • Optical Networks and Devices • Photonics Subsystems, packaging and thermal management • Signal Processing • Network Modelling and Architecture • Network management • Content Management (Semantic Web, Localisation) • Future Internet .

12. SFI Investment in Telecomms • SFI have invested to date over €180M in telecommunications research projects • Investments made through core programme grants, CSET, SRC , Stokes, PI and RFP • 3 CSETs (CTVR, DERI and CNGL) • Tyndall National Institute • FAME SRC • 20 PIs • > 20RFPs

13. Time can only permit snapshot of some of the research activity List of key Telecommunications Researchers provided in booklet Please review and organise one to one sessions

14. CSET Founded 2004 ~60 active researchers http://www.ctvr.ie/ TCD (Wireless/Optical Networking) DIT (Antennas) DCU (Optical Systems) NUIM (RF Design) UL (Thermal/Resource Management) UCC (Optimisation/Mobile Communications) Tyndall (Photonics Integration/Photonic Systems) Start-Up Company: Xcellerit

15. SRC Founded 2008 TCD (The Knowledge and Data Engineering Group ) UCD (Performing Engineering Lab) NUIM (Hamilton Institute) WIT (TSSG – Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) UCC (Computer Security research)

16. Digital Enterprise Research Institute CSET Founded 2003 NUIG Semantic Web and semantic sensor web technologies “networked knowledge”

17. Hamilton Institute • PIs • Director – Prof Doug Leith • Prof Robert Shorten • Dr David Malone • Research Topics • Network Modelling and Analysis • Radio Resource Allocation • Congestion Control

18. Main Groups • Photonics Systems Group • PIFAS – Photonic Integration from Atoms to Systems • Research Topics • Optical Networks/ Photonics Subsystems

19. UCD School of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering RF & Microwave Research (Brazil & Zhu) Signal Processing (Fagan & Flanagan) Channel Coding (Flanagan) Non-Linear Circuits and Systems (Feely & Curran) Optical Communications (Fagan)

20. UCD School of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Direct Spin off Companies: Massana (1996) – High speed data communications devices Voxpilot (2002) – Voice & multimedia on data networks BiancaMed (2003) – Contactless home health monitoring devices Indirect Spinoff Companies (founded by recent research graduates): InTune Networks (1999) - Optical networks using tunable lasers DecaWave (2007) - Ultrawideband positioning devices Xerenet (2007) – Chip design services

21. Summary Key Investment made into telecomms research Irish researchers well connected internationally US and NI collaborations in place US-Ireland programme is an opportunity to strengthen these collaborations