FRANCE TELECOM SA (FT)
Short description of the participating partner organization
FRANCE TELECOM is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers, with more than 108 million customers on the five continents (220 countries and territories). Through its major international brands, including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant and GlobeCast, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local, long-distance and international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, broadcast and cable TV services. France Telecom is the second-largest wireless operator and Internet access provider in Europe, and a world leader in telecommunications solutions for multinational corporations. France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is listed on the Paris and New York stock exchanges.
The research center RESA of FT R&D is composed of 600 technical and research engineers split into 5 research laboratories. Two of these will contribute to IPHOBAC, Gateways & Home networks/Optical Access (GHOA) laboratory and The Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) laboratory. Within IPHOBAC, the BWA laboratory will implement and investigate UWB radio interface based on multi-carrier (OFDM and MC-CDMA) and DS-CDMA techniques at 60 GHz. The GHOA laboratory will be involved in numerical and experimental analysis of future WDM optical access networks and radio over fiber networks. The project aims demonstrating the feasibility of a radio over fiber link with 60GHz radio signals with innovative photonic components which are key elements in radio over fiber architectures.
Primary Contact Person
Mr. Benoit Charbonnier
FRANCE TELECOM SA
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion Cédex
FR
Phone: +33 2 96 05 21 76
Fax: +33 2 96 05 35 90
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Short description of the participants (in alphabetical order)
Philippe Chanclou received the Ph. D. degrees from Rennes University, France in 1999. In 1996, he joined FT R&D where he was engaged in research on active and passive optical telecommunications functions for access networks. In 2000, he joined the University of ENST-Bretagne as a lecturer where he was engaged in research on optical switching and optical devices using liquid crystal for telecommunications. During 2001 to 2003, he has participated to the foundation of Optogone Company. Since 2004, he joined FT R&D where he was engaged in research on the next generation optical access networks.
Maryse Moignard graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Brest) in 1993, obtained a "Diplôme d’études Approfondies" from Brest University in Optics and Photonics in 1993 and received the Ph. D. degree from Brest University, France in 1996. From 1997 to 1999, she joined Thalès Communications in Paris where she worked on radio communications transmission systems. In 1999, she joined Algety a start-up from France Telecom R&D where she was engaged in charge of studies and lab trial over 160x10Gbit/s DWDM terrestrial transmission. After the purchase of Algety by Corvis Corporation, she was involved in the lab trial of N*10Gbits/s repeaterless transmission. Since 2003, she joined FT R&D where she is engaged in research on the next generation optical access networks.
Isabelle Siaud is born in 1965. She received the Electronic Master Dipl from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UMPC Paris VI) in 1992. From 1993 to 1998, she was a Research Engineer at France Telecom R&D at the Outil d'Ingénierie pour la Propagation (OIP) laboratory at Belfort in France. She worked on wideband propagation modeling for future mobile radio communications and short range millimetric radio transmissions. In 1999, she joined the team of France Telecom R&D at Rennes in charge of defining innovative PHY layer systems turned to multi-carrier techniques. She was implied in the DRM consortium which specified a new ETSI standard for ionospheric broadcasting transmissions. Actually, she works on innovative PHY layer systems for short range WPANs systems based on Ultra Wideband techniques. She is a head of the Ultra Wideband –MultiCarrier (UWB-MC) cluster of the IST/FP6 MAGNET project and contributes to French consortium evaluating millimetric radio transmission systems. She devotes some time to teaching radio communications at the University UMPC Paris VI within the SdI ESCO Master and at the ENST-Brest in France.
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