The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW) Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna) was founded in 1999 and implements cooperation between science and industry following a new and challenging approach. Our partners are three departments from Vienna University of Technology, a number of well-known telecommunications companies (network operators and telecom manufacturers), some smaller enterprises and the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. As a part of the K plus programme, ftw. is co-financed by the Austrian Government and the City of Vienna, which have granted 107 Million ATS for the first 4 years. Approximately the same amount will be financed by the participating companies.

"The Research Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in the GMD is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. In honour of this jubilee, Prof. Dr. Karl Zander, the founding father of FOKUS, takes the opportunity to look back at developments and events which led to the founding of FOKUS. Ten years of FOKUS history required fifteen years of preparation. This 25-year period encompasses the breath-taking pace of development in electronic data processing and the history of the creation and evolution of new philosophies in regard to information technology together with network science and technology. The most important development was the evolution from "closed" systems, created by a single manufacturer, to "open" communication architectures based on the multi-vendor principle using standardised interfaces.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute - ITRI - is a non-profit RD organization engaging in applied research and technical service. It was founded in 1973 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to attend to the technological needs of Taiwan's industrial development. ITRI has played a vital role in the transformation of the economy from an agriculture-based model to an industrial one. By year 2001 it has grown to a 6000 people operation, and serves as the technical center for industry and an unofficial arm of the government's industrial policies in Taiwan. Backed by its broad research scope and close industrial ties, ITRI is becoming an increasingly active member in the global industrial RD community.

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is a professional industry association that represents the vast majority of Canadian programming services - including private television and radio stations and networks, and specialty, pay and pay-per-view television services. Established in 1926, the CAB has over 600 members. We are the voice and choice of Canadians. Private radio and television services enjoy by far the largest share of the market, and Canadian programming broadcast by those services attracts the predominant share of the total audience for Canadian content.

"Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a collection of hardware and software technologies that enable reconfigurable system architectures for wireless networks and user terminals. SDR provides an efficient and comparatively inexpensive solution to the problem of building multi-mode, multi-band, multi-functional wireless devices that can be enhanced using software upgrades. As such, SDR can really be considered an enabling technology that is applicable across a wide range of areas within the wireless industry. SDR-enabled devices (e.g., handhelds) and equipment (e.g., wireless network infrastructure) can be dynamically programmed in software to reconfigure the characteristics of equipment. In other words, the same piece of ""hardware"" can be modified to perform different functions at different times. "