Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Alcatel-Lucent create a chair on broadband multimedia technologies

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) andAlcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris et NYSE: ALU) have launched the new “Alcatel-Lucent Chair”, enabling the students of the last courses of UPM’s Telecommunication Engineering Technical School to select a subject on the most relevant technologies the new broadband multimedia services and applications are based on. Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON), service routing, applications based on the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and other new services will be some of the fields in which the students will be able to acquire a deeper knowledge and specialization thanks to this chair. The academic activities in the University will be completed with a period of practical studies at Alcatel-Lucent, after which the students will be trained in state-of-the-art solutions and technologies. Javier Uceda, Vice-chancellor of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, pointed out that this agreement is one more step in “the long and fruitful history of cooperation” between Alcatel-Lucent and UPM, and will enable both entities to contribute to the development of R&D&I and quality education in the new communications services scenario.