TSSG - Telecommunications Software & Systems Group
The lead partner, TSSG is one of the largest research groups in Ireland. Spawned from Waterford Institute of Technology in 1996 the group has now grown to over 160 fulltime employees and PhD students, and a twelve year track record in telecommunications management, with Dr Willie Donnelly, Director of the TSSG, as the principal investigator. Working primarily in the areas of EU and nationally funded research the group maintains two specific divisions: a research division and an innovation and development division. TSSG is located in its own building in Carriganore, Co. Waterford (pictured right), is one of the leading communications software research centres in Europe, with Irish HEA and SFI funds, the largest share of EU FP6 and FP7 funding in Ireland, and a large share of Enterprise Ireland’s (EI’s) commercialisation funds. The TSSG ranks in the top 10 research institutes in the EU engaged in EU Future Internet research (out of thousands of companies and universities).
The TSSG’s unique research ethos is to build links between academic and industrial research through the creation of a balanced portfolio of activity in: Basic Research, Applied Research and Commercial activity. The group is also home to a number of active organisations that have been created as a result of the many years of success: The Centre for Converged Communications Services (3CS), The National IPv6 Centre and a number of spin-out companies that have been formed to commercialise the success of various research and development projects. This proven track record and continued success is helping to attract more and more funding to the Waterford area, in addition to Ireland, while also helping to sustain employment and encourage economic growth in the region. The TSSG's main area of research is communications software services encompassing emerging architectures for management of complex telecommunications and Internet systems as well as next generation service development and deployment. The TSSG has strong expertise in the areas of distributed systems and service oriented architectures, particularly when applied to the communications and telecommunications domain. Thus the TSSG sees itself as an exemplar of a new vision of research in Ireland that is both trans-disciplinary (combining mainly engineering, computing and business) and pursues a combination of academic and commercial excellence. The TSSG is the largest ICT group in Ireland engaged in such a critical mass of activity relating to communications software services, and indeed is one of the most successful integrated research clusters in any academic domain in Ireland.
TSSG http://www.tssg.org/