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   Optibase is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: OBAS) and a global leader in broadband digital video streaming solutions. Optibase's powerful server platforms enable video streaming over IP and ATM networks for applications such as distance learning, business TV and monitoring. Optibase is advancing into the next growth phase of the broadband Internet by developing media transmission servers which will enable end-to-end, constraints free streaming of rich media over the Internet. Rich media applications vary from video-enhanced e-commerce, Internet TV, video on demand services, addressed advertising, advanced caching, streaming live events and more.

  


Telecom Italia Lab is the Telecom Italia Group company with the mission of promoting and operating improved innovation, and identifying and developing large business opportunities offered by the ICT market. The focal points of Telecom Italia Lab are to consolidate experience in the Research and development sector, and expand the promotional capacity of Corporate Venture Capital, investing in emerging technologies, in synergy with the internal research projects and the prospective of the entire Telecom Italia Group’s market.

The Communication Networks Laboratory of University of Athens was founded in 1994 as a research unit of the Telecommunications and Signal Processing division of the Department of Informatics. During the past years the Laboratory has been actively involved in a number of national and international projects. The main focus of such projects was in the area of Mobile/Wireless Communications (UMTS, Broadband Radio Access Networks), Specification/Testing of Telecommunication Protocols and Multimedia Communications. Owing to its successful participation in such projects, the Laboratory has managed to establish close relationships with a large number of organizations including academic and research institutions, telecommunication operators, and large manufacturing houses of a European and national level.