An overview of the University of Texas at Dallas' center for advanced telecommunications systems and services (CATSS)

The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services (CATSS) was founded in January 1998 to satisfy the acute needs of the growing Dallas/Richardson telecommunications industry. Its mission is to foster a strong Industry-University partnership to advance local telecommunications industries to the next generation of systems and products. Composed of UTD faculty and industry researchers and managers, the Center's focus is exclusively telecommunications-related fields of study and research. The technical foci of the Center reflect the current needs of the telecommunications industry, including but not limited to wireless and optical networking. The Center's work spans the entire range of available technical expertise---hardware, communications, transmission modalities, algorithms, systems architecture, and applications. As part of its activities, the Center organizes workshops and conferences on topics solicited by industry and the community. It offers seminars and courses featuring talks from leading experts both from the public and private sectors, and publishes journals and magazines. By accomplishing this, CATSS serves as a clearing house for advanced telecommunications research and development in the short run, and incubates long term vision, enabling a continuation of the robust development and rapid expansion of the telecommunications industry.