The East of England Aworld-beating telecoms hub

1. The East of England
A world-beating telecoms hub
The largest 3,500
R&D ICT cluster communications
in Europe, at companies
BT Adastral employing
Park, Ipswich over 35,000
Anritsu
Home to BT's
£10 billion
programme, 21CN
BT’s Adastral Park Computacenter
The East of England: BT, with its Suffolk research base, operates 21CN – its
G Contributes 25% of UK R&D spend – international, software-driven customer network that introduces
over three times the national average next-generation services faster than ever before. BT supports
G Part of the Greater South East – the
the annual 21CN Global Summits which bring together
10th largest economy in the world
G Home to London Stansted – with more Telecommunications, Media and IT business leaders from all over
daily flights to Europe than any other the globe. BT also manages N3, part of the UK’s national
airport worldwide programme for IT, for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
N3 provides every NHS site with fast broadband.
EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE SECTOR
Anritsu (EMEA HQ) – delivering products used in over 100 countries worldwide
3Com (UK HQ) – acknowledged by leading analysts to be one of the three
global leaders in networking
Computacenter (Global HQ) – Europe’s leading independent provider of
IT infrastructure
Global Marine Systems (Global HQ) – the market leader in submarine cables
for communications networks
Business support funded by the
Psytechnics (Global HQ) – industry-leading provider of Voice and Video
East of England Development Agency Performance Management software solutions
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2. Tap into our region’s R&D
CIP (Centre for Integrated Photonics) – the leading supplier of advanced
photonic components and services works alongside universities, research
institutes and companies in a variety of consortia across Europe.
CAPE (Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics) – a collaboration
between the University of Cambridge and major industrial companies for
jointly commissioned research and device development.
Cranfield University’s Engineering Photonics Group – one of the UK’s
3Com’s Wireless LAN Access Point 7250 leading optical sensing and instrumentation research centres with areas of
study including fibre optic sensors, optical flow measurement
instrumentation, speckle interferometry and medical imaging.
University of Essex Multimedia Research Group – the first such group in
the UK. Current interests include IPTV, teleconferencing, spatial audio
coding and robust echo cancellation, video content searching, colour object
identification through segmentation and wireless multimedia.
University of Essex Future Networks Research Group – including the
Photonic Networks Laboratory studying optical grid networking and the
Access Networks Laboratory, focussed on cost-effective broadband
access solutions.
University of East Anglia (UEA) School of Computing Sciences – including
SYSCO, the consulting company established to provide access to the
expertise in the School. Many of the School’s staff have close links to
industry. Key research areas include language and human computing
interface and knowledge extraction and data mining.
Thinking of setting
Benefit from leading
up a UK business?
industry networks
EEI’s commercially-focused
Business Development Managers Ofcom – the independent organisation responsible for regulating the UK’s
will use their sector knowledge and telecommunications sector. Part of Ofcom’s role is to ensure that
connections for your benefit. companies are able to compete fairly.
Let us: Cambridge Wireless – one of the UK's leading wireless communities. Its
G Provide you with specialist local aim is to encourage networking and debate over the latest developments
sector knowledge in the industry, and to find commercial opportunities for mutual
G Quickly identify technology collaboration.
partners
G Align you with key academic Digital Communications KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) – funded by
contacts the Government-sponsored Technology Strategy Board to help businesses
G Embed you in the supply chain innovate. The KTN provides companies with networking and partnering
G Put you in touch with business opportunities; up-to-date knowledge on markets, technologies and routes
service providers to funding and opportunities to influence KTN strategy and government
G Find you appropriate premises regulation and standards.
G Help source expert staff
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