Wireless, Wired, and Optic Communications

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Innovation in Brazilian telecommunications

The Group on Wireless, Wired, and Optic Communications (GC2WO) reaches in 2012 ten years of activity. The chair professors Paulo Roberto Girardello Franco and Fernando César Comparsi de Castro, members of the Telecommunications Group at PUCRS, have their origin on the tradition that the University has in Telecommunication. Located at the Wireless Technologies Research Center, the group developed, as one of its main projects, Modulators for Digital TV Signals Broadcast. The modulator converts audio, video signals and data in radio signals to be relayed to the public. This product was fully designed and developed by GC2WO; it complies with Brazilian transmission standards and is the first one, already available on the market, to reach the electronic telecommunication industry.

In December 2011, PUCRS and TELEBRAS, aiming certification of equipments and services, signed an agreement to implement and operate a reference network and a laboratory. Researchers from GC2WO are responsible for running these facilities and will conduct projects involving wireless communications and network infrastructure. The TELEBRAS facility is located on the third floor of main building at the Science and Technology Park of PUCRS (Tecnopuc). It has areas dedicated to projects development, management and also a laboratory where the TELEBRAS Reference Network will be established. This partnership brings the University closer to industry and society, in addition to represent one further step to provide an effective action of technology transfer to the telecommunications sector. This is a strategic project of the Brazilian government to promote the growth of the telecommunications industry in Brazil.