China
group's Research & Development in China
Among its 15 R&D centres on
three continents, France
Telecom created a centre in China
in 2004 within the Zhong Guan Cun high tech park, a Chinese Silicon
Valley. The lab's mission
is to create and develop innovation commercial offerings for customers of Orange,
the Group's
commercial brand. The lab works in close
collaboration with the local Chinese ecosystem and benefits for the Group's
R&D global resources.
The France Telecom Beijing centre concentrates its research in three specific areas: convergent and mobile terminals, convergent and mobile multimedia value added services, and more specific research activities in areas where China is more technologically advanced. To accomplish its mission, the lab relies on the following key skills: terminal operating systems, open software technologies, speech processing and natural language dialogue, mobile communication systems, data networks and IPv6, value-added service platforms, image/multimedia technologies, and innovation, including sociological aspects and new usage. In addition, the Beijing centre provides a telecom market technology watch thus providing information, advice and strategic studies to the Group and its subsidiaries for their various development activities throughout China.
Orange
Labs Beijing
10
th floor, Tower C, Raycom Info Tech Park C,
2 Science Institute South Rd,
Haidian District,
Beijing, 100080, China
phone: +86 10 6257 1188
The France Telecom Beijing lab has already obtained some solid results, in the area of value added services, the France Telecom Beijing lab developed an Internet and mobile accessible multimedia platform which is currently undergoing tourism service tests for the city of Xian. With both European and Chinese partners, the Beijing lab also launched a project with FPG European aid aimed at developing an interactive television service over mobiles. This service will be tested during the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Regarding the study of Chinese technologies, the Beijing lab designed a speaker recognition system independent of the language spoken and which was designated among the best in the world in a recent international competition.
The Beijing lab employs more
than 115 researchers and engineers hired from the best Chinese academic institutes
and universities. A large number of current
employees benefited from dual training in French engineering schools.
