Each day, GTRI’s science and engineering expertise is used to solve some of the toughest problems facing government and industry across the nation and around the globe. GTRI has been a trusted government and industry partner since 1934. It employs around 1,500 people, and is involved in approximately $200 million in research annually for more than 200 clients in industry and government. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is Georgia Tech’s nonprofit applied research arm. News & World Report’s top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is one of the world’s premier research universities.
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Georgia Tech and the TR-50 Engineering Committee on Smart Device Communications are planning a number of educational, business and networking activities at TIA 2011: Inside the Network, TIA’s annual industry event being held in Dallas, Texas May 17-20, 2011. McGrath, director of GTRI and Georgia Tech vice president. We are looking forward to collaborating with a preeminent standards development organization that can provide advice and guidance as we advance Georgia Tech’s research mission in global communications and information technologies," stated Dr. "The cooperation with TIA will bridge our research competence with industry experience. The MOU aims at establishing mutually acceptable cooperative programmatic arrangements that will facilitate the achievement of both organizations’ strategic goals. Smith, Chair of the TIA TR-50 Engineering Committee on Smart Device Communications and Chief Technology Officer of Numerex (Nasdaq: NMRX). Led by GTRI’s Information and Communications Lab (ICL), GTRI will bring unique resources in this regard, including those of GTRI’s newly-created Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL) and the world-renowned Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)," said Dr.
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In particular, it will contribute to efficiently address pressing concerns in smart device standardization such as security.
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"Georgia Tech’s involvement will be critical in the machine-to-machine (M2M) communications area. Recently, TIA has responded to the changing telecommunications environment with the creation of new standards committees, such as those on Smart Device Communications and Smart Utility Networks. It is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and recognized by the International Telecommunication Union under ITU-T Recommendations A.5 and A.6. TIA committees produce voluntary industry standards (TIA Standards and TIA Interim Standards) and American National Standards (TIA American National Standards) and TIA Telecommunications Systems Bulletins (TSB), and other documents in the fields of Communications Products (Wireless, M-2-M, Satellite and User Premises), Distribution Systems, and Fiber Optics. Combining leading hands-on industry expertise with support from a premier institution of higher learning and research will strengthen TIA’s voluntary standards process throughout our engineering committees," commented Grant Seiffert, President of TIA.
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The collaboration with Georgia Tech will give TIA access to state-of-the-art research capabilities on top of the strong and broad experience already offered by the TIA members. "This MOU marks an important step for TIA as the scope of our standardization activities is expanding and the related demand for standards is rapidly increasing. A pivotal dimension of the MOU is the intent to define an industry-supported center at Georgia Tech focused on the science, engineering and testing necessary to advance telecommunications standards. This collaboration will take place through the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), a department of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore collaborative standards development opportunities of mutual interest involving research, testing, and outreach in the area of global information and communications infrastructure.