What is happening in Sweden now
SSF funded center for
Personal Computing and Communications (www.tde.lth.se/pcc)
- The PCC Vision: Mobile multimedia services to all at the same price level as fixed telephony today.
- nearly all the swedish technical universities and both Nokia and Ericsson are involved
- Recognizes the importance of the Internet
- has marketed PhoneDouble (developed at Ellemtel)
- Buy rights to have a mirror AltaVista site (the first european mirror site)
- 10,000 ADSL users pilot; service rollout expected for Stockholm and Göteborg
- Discovers Internet in a big way
- At kickoff for data networking (Sept. 25) -Anders Igel says: Data is no longer an option it is a MUST!
- At Telecom Interactive '97 conference in Geneva, Bo Hedfors, head of Ericsson US announced that the company slogan would be changed from "It's about communication between people, the rest is technology" to "It's ... the rest is IP".
- Ericsson (Finland) produced LANPhone
- Video on demand server for course material for some courses
- ~600 students/year taking introductory course in telecommunications
- ~60 students/year taking advanced course: mobile communications, high speed networking, multimeda, ...
- Joint courses and seminars with Stanford University
- Spinoff: Net Insight AB (www.netinsight.se) - high speed networking based on DTM
The Graduate School in Teleinformatics is organized as a cooperation between:
- Högskolan i Karlskrona-Ronneby, Department of Telecommunications and Mathematics (HK-R/ITM)
- KTH, Department of Teleinformatics, (KTH/IT)
- Mitthögskolan, Department of Information Technology, (MH/ITE)