Partners
Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.U
Telefónica
Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.U. (Telefónica
I+D or TID) is Spain’s leading company for research,
development and innovation in telecommunications. The
Telefónica Group created Telefónica I+D in 1988
and fully owns the company, with the objective of boosting the
competitiveness of the Group’s subsidiaries by means of the
technological innovation. The activities of Telefónica I+D
are integrated in the Telefónica Group strategy, and are
directed towards service creation; network, service, application and
business management. The Telefónica I+D mission is to create
new value for the Telefónica Group, its customers, and
ultimately for society. Telefónica I+D presently has offices
in Madrid, Valladolid, Barcelona, Huesca (Spain), Sao Paolo (Brazil)
and Mexico City, and continues its geographical diversification in
Spain and internationally.
The role of Telefónica I+D in ICING is as a creator, provider and integrator of telecommunications services and telematics applications. Telefónica I+D will bring to the project core competences in the following areas:
- Mobile network services: short messaging (SMS), multimedia messaging (MMS), cell broadcast (CBS), browsing (WAP, I-Mode, WWW) and voice.
- 3G networks, Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and SIP based applications.
- External network interfaces, in particular OSA-Parlay, Web Services and Parlay X.
Telefónica I+D will spend the bulk of its effort in the technological infrastructure (WP7) and in providing the test bed (WP8), and will work closely together with T-Systems in these activities. The operator in the consortium, Telefónica I+D will:
- providing access to mobile network services in Barcelona and support delivery of such services through existing network infrastructure in Dublin, respectively.
- work on functional requirements, service scenarios and access modes to be used in the three cities.
- develop a service gateway between the mobile network interfaces and those of the diverse local government agencies, using Web Services.
- develop multimedia applications running on the IMS.
The objective is to develop applications, practices and standards that can be offered in any country by any operator to its Cities.
Telefónica I+D cooperate in joint research projects with mebers of the GSM Association, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), 3GPP and other standardisation bodies. TID will provide 55 p-ms of effort.
