UPM, Spain: Alcatel-Lucent creates broadband multimedia chair

The Madrid Polytechnic University is Spain, has extended its collaboration with French telecommunication specialists Alcatel-Lucent, to create the Alcatel-Lucent Chair, an initiative that will offer students from the Telecommunication Engineering Technical School at UPM specialist study of emerging broadband multimedia-related technologies.

Students at UPM will, through the implementation of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair, benefit from being taught the specifics of IP multimedia subsystem-based technologies such as Gigabit Passive Optical Networks and service routing, as well as being trained in state-of-the art solution and technologies at Alcatel-Lucent.

Alcatel-Lucent invests 15 per cent of its sales (€2.7 billion) into R&D and innovation centres, highlighting, as stated by Javier Uceda of UPM, the importance of the university’s collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent in the development of R&D&I and specialised education within the communications services industry.

Alfredo Redondo, of Alcatel-Lucent, said: “It is a great honour for us to offer our knowledge, experience and leadership in new broadband multimedia services as well as in the complex multidisciplinary world that must be built around them to the Spanish University. I am sure that this collaboration will be a success and that the innovative ideas of the participants in this chair will be an ideal complement both for our R&D&I network and for UPM’s Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers.”