The innovation DNA of Altice Labs was in focus at the Net Futures 2016 conference which took place between the 20th and 21st April, in Brussels.
Net Futures 2016 was a conference organized by the European Comission and its main goal was to maximize competitiveness of the european technology industry.
Altice Labs was invited by ETNO, one of the event’s sponsors, to participate in this conference, being present at this association’s stand with some solutions of operations support systems, campaign management and GPON, namely Altaia, Netwin, NetQ, ACM and GPON products. This was an opportunity for Altice Labs to show its commitment to build a better digital society and its active role in achieving european leadership of 5G.
Altice Labs is, since 2014, a member of 5GPPP Infrastructure Association and nowadays takes part in 4 of the 18 H2020 funded projects in the area of 5G development, assuming an active role in european forums of 5G architecture and coordination.
Commissioner Andrus Ansip and Günther Oettinger, Roberto Viola, Director-General of DG CONNECT e Mário Campolargo, Director of Net Futures, among others, were present at the event.
In is overture speech Günther Oettinger, commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, emphasised the importance of the Net of the Future in the modernization and efficiency improvement in the traditional european industries. According to his perspective, it will be through technology that the european industry will remain innovative and competitive.
Hélder Biscaia, responsible for the Business Development department at Altice Labs, said in a interview to ETNO, ”we are investing in the development of solutions that range from innovative network equipments, such as the line of GPON and NGPON2 products that target the future’s bandwidth requirements, and the certified operations support systems, to the unified communications convergent suite and M2M managed connectivity solutions that allow to operators and service providers to define their own strategy of IoT services provision”. Read the full interview.
ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association) has been the voice of network communications operators in Europe since 1992. Its 41 members and observers are the backbone of Europe’s digital progress. They are the driving forces of bandwidth and are committed to its continued growth in Europe.
The members of ETNO include pan-european operators which hold positions outside their national markets. ETNO gathers the main investors in innovative and high quality platforms and electronic communications services, which represents 60% of the sector’s total investment.
ETNO promotes a good regulatory and trading environment so that its members keep launching innovative and high quality services and platforms that benefit european consumers and companies.