Transcript History_CATT - Columbia University

Center for Advanced
Technology in
Telecommunications
(CATT)
Mission
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The New York State Foundation for Science,
Technology, and Innovation (NYSTAR) has redesignated Polytechnic University as the New
York State Center for Advanced Technology in
Telecommunications and Distributed Information
Systems for the period 2004-2014. Several
researchers at Columbia University are affiliated
with CATT.
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The mission of the Center is to stimulate
economic development in information technology
through research and education.
CATT - A short tour of the last
25 years
• 1983: CATT is one of the first four New York
State Centers for Advanced Technology
• Early 1980’s was the dawn of today’s
information age
– AT&T broken up
– NSFnet, a precursor of the Internet is a largely
academic research network
– Wireless phone service prohibitively expensive
Metrotech
• 1980s:The creation of CATT coincided with
President George Bugliarello’s vision of an
urban industry-academic park.
• 1990s: Many companies with substantial IT
operations, starting with KeySpan, SIAC (now
NYSE Euronext) and JPMorgan Chase are
attracted by the educational and R&D
synergies.
Packet-switching
• 1980s: Packet switching network tools
developed that helped design the first
generation packet switched networks for
Contel (now Verizon), IBM and SIAC (NYSE
Euronext) and NASDAQ.
• 1990s: Network fault management: Root
cause analysis technology becomes the basis
of SMARTS, Inc. (now part of EMC)
Wireless networks
• 1980s: CATT helps solve a complex
scheduling problem for Argos, Inc., a
satellite company offering telephone
service.
• 1990s: The Wafisch-Bertoni model is
adopted by the cellular industry to site
base stations. It is now a part of all
cellular network design tools.
Imaging/Multimedia
• 1990s: CATT develops technology to optimize video
compression for transport over networks. Advanced
compression techniques are adopted by KeySpan to
transmit maps to field engineers using wireless
PDA’s.
• 1990s: As part of a Financial Services Technology
Consortium project, CATT demonstrates that digital
images of checks can be a good substitute to
physically transporting checks. Banks subsequently
adopt digital imaging of checks.
Voice over IP
• 1990s: CATT plays key role in the
development of the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) that is a fundamental
building block of VOIP; spin-off
company: FirstHand Technologies
• 2000s: CATT researchers work with
Verizon to show how VOIP can be used
securely in a carrier-class deployment
What’s cooking now?
• Cooperative wireless communications:
Will likely be part of next generation
wireless standards, increasing bits/Hz
• P2P video
• Cyber-security
• New startups: Vivic, Arootz, Digital
Assembly, Mobile Matrix,…