Archive pour mai 2009
Ekinops Improves the Performances of Optical Transport
Posté par Roland dans In english please, Member profile le 30/05/2009
The optical transport equipment market is a very competitive sector in which Ekinops is in competition with much larger companies. This SME, that currently has 65 employees, draws its strength from an original positioning that it adopted from the outset in 2003. Ekinops has developed a totally flexible and scalable modular platform – the Ekinops 360 platform – which makes it possible to significantly reduce the cost of implementing high-speed optical networks.
« The added value in our system, explains François-Xavier Ollivier, CTO and co-founder of Ekinops, is that we are capable of aggregating and transporting heterogeneous flows, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Sonet/SDH and all types video flows, on the same carrier and at all speeds. Our solutions are based on a programmable component, the T-chip from Ekinops, and on optical transport error correction technology that is amongst the most effective in the industry. Our platform integrates easily into metropolitan, regional and long distance optical networks. »
Working on Virtual Objects at Full Scale
Posté par Roland dans In english please, R&D insights le 25/05/2009
Haption is an SME based in Laval, a town where there is a concentration of companies in the virtual reality and simulation sector. Haption is specialized in force-feedback systems. This type of system enables operators to act upon virtual or remote objects using a peripheral that gives the impression of acting directly on the object. The peripheral, known as a haptic interface, is made up of an articulated mechanical structure equipped with motors and sensors linked to embedded electronics. By means of force-feedback, the haptic interface sends to the operator all the constraints linked to the interaction between the object and its environment, whether they are virtual or remote.
François Louveau, Haption’s CEO, explains us how the Scale 1 project will make it possible to progress to a new stage: « The innovative feature of Scale 1, is that it gives the operator the possibility to move around, at full scale, in a large working area. The force-feedback system follows him in his movements. The operator uses his arms and hands without any difficulty and with perfect visibility of the object he is handling. »
Our aim is to serve operations on digital models and work in biologically inaccessible areas
François Louveau
High Speed Access All Over the House
Posté par Roland dans In english please, R&D insights le 25/05/2009
Omega is preparing homes for the Internet of the Future. Its objective: To equip homes with a very high bandwidth network (1 Gbit/s) without additional wiring. Jean-Philippe Javaudin, of France Telecom-Orange, is the coordinator of this European research project that has the Images et Réseaux label. He explains us the outlines of the project: « We would like very high bandwidth access to be as simple and available as access to water or light in all the rooms of the house. To transport data, we have combined several wireless technologies with powerline communications. We use these technologies concurrently so that, at each instant, the most appropriate path is selected depending on the requirements of the application and the specific constraints. »
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Jean-Philippe Javaudin