Ericsson Research part of EU-funded project

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is participating in the research project APACHE, Agile Photonic Integrated Systems-on-Chip Enabling WDM Terabit Networks, funded in part by the European Union. The project aims to enable traffic capacities of over 100Gbps for future high-speed broadband services.

Besides its research resources and technical competence, Ericsson will contribute to making the research result ready for commercial adaption in products targeting the telecom mass market. The devices will play an important role in increasing network capacity cost-effectively when deployed in optical networks.

Besides its research resources and technical competence, Ericsson will contribute to making the research result ready for commercial adaption in products targeting the telecom mass market. The devices will play an important role in increasing network capacity cost-effectively when deployed in optical networks.

The consortium, headed by the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), comprises the Centre for Integrated Photonics (UK), Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany), PhoeniX Software (The Netherlands), Athens Information Technology Centre, AIT, (Greece), and Ericsson units in Sweden and the UK. The project started officially April 1, 2008, and will run for three years. The project will share open information through its newly launched website, www.ict-apache.eu.

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. The market leader in 2G and 3G mobile technologies, Ericsson supplies communications services and manages networks that serve more than 195 million subscribers. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, and broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and developers. The Sony Ericsson joint venture provides consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices.

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