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Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT). Mission.
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Mission • The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) has re-designated Polytechnic University as the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems for the period 2004-2014. Several researchers at Columbia University are affiliated with CATT. • The mission of the Center is to stimulate economic development in information technology through research and education.
CATT - A short tour of the last 25 years • 1983: CATT is one of the first four New York State Centers for Advanced Technology • Early 1980’s was the dawn of today’s information age • AT&T broken up • NSFnet, a precursor of the Internet is a largely academic research network • Wireless phone service prohibitively expensive
Metrotech • 1980s:The creation of CATT coincided with President George Bugliarello’s vision of an urban industry-academic park. • 1990s: Many companies with substantial IT operations, starting with KeySpan, SIAC (now NYSE Euronext) and JPMorgan Chase are attracted by the educational and R&D synergies.
Packet-switching • 1980s: Packet switching network tools developed that helped design the first generation packet switched networks for Contel (now Verizon), IBM and SIAC (NYSE Euronext) and NASDAQ. • 1990s: Network fault management: Root cause analysis technology becomes the basis of SMARTS, Inc. (now part of EMC)
Wireless networks • 1980s: CATT helps solve a complex scheduling problem for Argos, Inc., a satellite company offering telephone service. • 1990s: The Wafisch-Bertoni model is adopted by the cellular industry to site base stations. It is now a part of all cellular network design tools.
Imaging/Multimedia • 1990s: CATT develops technology to optimize video compression for transport over networks. Advanced compression techniques are adopted by KeySpan to transmit maps to field engineers using wireless PDA’s. • 1990s: As part of a Financial Services Technology Consortium project, CATT demonstrates that digital images of checks can be a good substitute to physically transporting checks. Banks subsequently adopt digital imaging of checks.
Voice over IP • 1990s: CATT plays key role in the development of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) that is a fundamental building block of VOIP; spin-off company: FirstHand Technologies • 2000s: CATT researchers work with Verizon to show how VOIP can be used securely in a carrier-class deployment
What’s cooking now? • Cooperative wireless communications: Will likely be part of next generation wireless standards, increasing bits/Hz • P2P video • Cyber-security • New startups: Vivic, Arootz, Digital Assembly, Mobile Matrix,…