Project Team
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The Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT): Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG)
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Since it’s founding in 1996, TSSG has grown from 3 to over 70 members of staff and students comprising WIT faculty, full-time principle and senior investigators, centre managers, researchers - including programmers and engineers - research students and support staff. All the funding for the TSSG has been won in competitive tenders for national and international research funding.
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.
The TSSG has two primary divisions - the Research Division and the Commercial Division. Each of the divisions is composed of centres, each with its own thematic focus. Together the TSSG encompasses a balanced portfolio of active research projects reflecting a synergistic mix of basic research (strategically oriented), applied research, pre-product development, and commercial spin-off activities. 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. With over 30 current active funded research projects (primarily Irish and European funding), and a history of over 50 funded projects (of which the TSSG has been the lead partner in over 65%) the TSSG is the largest 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.