24 projects in Horizon 2020 on SDN/NFV, 5G, IoT, Factories of the Future and FIRE+ (12 projects in 5GPPP)
Ranked 1st EU SME for funding on the “Network of the Future” topics of the EC’s Framework Programme 7 for ICT (2007-2013).
Key results in international top conferences and exhibitions (MWC, SDN World Congress, OFC, EUCNC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, IoT Solutions World Congress, etc.)
Network slicing, Intent-based APIs, 5G Application and Service Catalogues, Cloud-native virtual infrastructure management, End-to-end monitoring of network services and slices
ETSI NFV MANO (OpenSourceMANO, closed-sourceMANO)
OpenDaylight, ONOS
OpenStack
Home and building control/automation, Energy management and optimization with policies and predictors, Real-time monitoring & event management, Cloud-based IoT services (e.g. based on MS Azure or AWS Stream Analytics and Machine Learning), Remote facility management & supervision
Participant in ETSI NFV , MEC , ZSM , ENI , PDL and NGP Industry Steering Groups
Participant in ETSI OSM Open Source Group
Leader of many ETSI Specialist Task Forces : OpenStack/VIM APIs, NFV Testing Framework, NFV OpenAPI, Member of MEC Testing Framework and MEC API Conformance Test
Member of Technical organization team for 2nd /3rd /4th NFV Plugtests at ETSI
Member of board of 5G Infrastructure Association PPP
Member of Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation - AIOTI
Member of Steering Board of Networld2020 European Technology Platform
Collaborations with major Network Vendors and Operators (Ericsson, Italtel, Alcatel-Lucent, Selex Communications, Juniper, Huawei, Telefonica, BT, Interoute)
Collaboration with top IoT players (Intel, Microsoft) and Utility providers (Enel)
Collaborations with research centers and universities in Europe and worldwide (30+ universities and research centers in Europe, 5+ in Brazil, 2 in Japan)
Nicola Ciulli, Head of R&D, will take part tomorrow, May 19th 2020 (16:00 CEST time), in the European Digital Forum’s 5G Tech Talk event, where the live discussion will touch several aspects related to 5G development and innovation. The focus of the talk will be on the main expected benefits and opportunities that 5G emerging technologies can bring to vertical stakeholders, both large enterprises and SMEs, in the development and deployment of new products and services.
We participated to the second edition of 5G Italy in Rome (IT) on 3-5 Dec 2019 to discuss about European 5G pilots, our experiences & market prospects for 5G in Smart Factories.
Our Head of R&D gave a keynote speech at World 5G Convention in Beijing to present the steering activities of the Networld2020 European Technology Platform on cross-sectorial 5G research & innovations.
Know-how and skills of employees are the main strength and asset.
(out of 4+M€ turnover) The time gap between technological innovation and obsolescence is narrowing, so it's mandatory to invest in research and innovation.
