POWER – Empowering a Digital Future

Project name
POWER – Empowering a Digital Future

Project number
182851

Operation type

Incentive System for Research and Technological Development – Contractual Investment Regime (Business R&D – Co-promotion).

Main objective

Reinforce research, technological development, and innovation.

Intervention area

Center.

Co-promoters

• ALTICE LABS, S.A. (LEAD PROMOTER);
• INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES;
• UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA;
• INSTITUTO PEDRO NUNES.

Approval date

08-03-2022

Start date

01-07-2021

End date

30-06-2024

Total eligible investment

21.478.722,86 €

European Union funding support through FEDER – COMPETE 2020

10.668.860,17 €

Goals, activities, and expected results

The project “POWER – EMPOWERING A DIGITAL FUTURE” aims to structurally, transversally, and comprehensively support the evolution of the current portfolio of Products and Services (P&S) at Altice Labs toward a new concept of integrated offerings. This will enable new market approaches aligned with four strong technological transformation vectors: 5G networks, Edge/Cloud computing continuum, AI & data-driven technologies, and business models.

The expectation is to build a new, solid, robust, and updated portfolio to penetrate and conquer new markets by leveraging the new business models that the distinctive approach will allow.

To achieve this, the project is structured into five technical work packages (SP) that complement each other and act in harmony, ensuring that the evolution of Altice Labs’ products and solutions is guided, governed, synergistic, and efficient. The specific objectives are as follows:

5G and High-Speed Network Infrastructures:

• Creation of at least 2 new products for the 5G ecosystem by project completion;
• Creation of a new line of optical products based on the latest standardized technologies.

CLOUD/EDGE:

• Adaptation of at least 50% of the current portfolio to Cloud scenarios, either by evolving into service supply scenarios or by adapting to instantiation in cloud environments by project completion;
• Creation of at least 2 new product or service offerings for the edge of the network by project completion.

AI:

• Infusion of the AI methodology, extending its applicability to at least 50% of the current portfolio by project completion;
• Creation of at least 2 new products or services based on the cognitive processes defined in the AI methodology by project completion.

DATA AND ANALYTICS:

• Productization in a Cloud model of the data and analytics platform considered in the project by its completion;
• Definition of at least 5 data monetization scenarios for operationalization in the data and analytics platform by project completion.

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