Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications CATT

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Center for Advanced Technology in
Telecommunications (CATT)
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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.

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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 1980s was the dawn of todays information
  age
• ATT broken up
• NSFnet, a precursor of the Internet is a largely
  academic research network
• Wireless phone service prohibitively expensive

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Metrotech

• 1980sThe creation of CATT coincided with
  President George Bugliarellos 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 RD synergies.

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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)

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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.

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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
  PDAs.
• 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.

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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

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Whats 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,