The organizers of FITUR 2018, the annual international tourism fair celebrated at IFEMA (Madrid, Spain), interview Arturo Azcorra, Director of IMDEA Networks, Telematics professor at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid and Vice President of 5TONIC.
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22 Jan 2018
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia inaugurated last week the IFEMA LAB 5G presented at the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2018, held in Madrid from January 17th to the 21st. During the opening visit to the fair, the Spanish Monarchs visited the stand of the IFEMA LAB 5G, an initiative launched by IFEMA and 5TONIC to explore ways of applying 5G technology to the tourism and trade fair sectors.
15 Jan 2018
Edward Knightly, Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and department chair at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA) and a member of the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks Institute (Madrid, Spain) has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2017. ACM is the world’s largest computing society.
12 Jan 2018
FITUR 2018 will be the presentation platform for a series of technological solutions aimed at the tourism industry and fair management, ready to spring into action with 5G technology- still in the standardisation process-,, in the near future. This is a line of prototypes developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers who have been working since last September at the IFEMA LAB 5G laboratory, set up by IFEMA and 5TONIC, a company founded by Telefónica, IMDEA Networks Institute, and ERICSSON.
08 Jan 2018
Software-Defined Networking can make the Internet scalable, manageable, and adaptable at an industry-grade level, according to a recent research study led by scientists from the Madrid research institute IMDEA Networks.
02 Jan 2018
Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz, a professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt and the president of the Board of Trustees of IMDEA Networks Institute, has been awarded the first fellowship ever granted by the ITG Information Technology Society of the VDE, the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies.
29 Dec 2017
If they are to achieve data rates exceeding 10Gbps, 5G networks will demand an extended range of frequencies allowing for large continuous bandwidths. The solution could arise from mm-wave bands within multi-RAT deployments.
27 Dec 2017
eXhaul transport solution ready to take on 5G.
26 Dec 2017
Human beings have started to generate programs and machines whose functioning is not transparent or interpretable. It would be convenient to regulate their development.
20 Dec 2017
Rohde & Schwarz, one of the world's leading manufacturers of information and communications technology products for professional users, has become a new Collaborator of 5TONIC, the leading Open 5G lab founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks.