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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2001
MEDIA CONTACT: Liz Dierksmeier, (703)726-8304, ldierks@va.gwu.edu New Research Lab at the GW Virginia Campus
Focuses on Telecommunications and Networking Innovation
Ashburn, VA - The George Washington University Virginia Campus today unveiled NetLab, the Laboratory for Advanced Networking. Joining GW for the ribbon-cutting ceremony were NetLab's founding partners: Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and Litton TASC. Representatives from NetLab sponsors America Online, Booz Allen & Hamilton, ITT Industries, Orbital Sciences, SAIC and Verizon were also on hand for the event held in conjunction with the GW Virginia Campus' 2001 NetCom 21 Workshop. A state-of-the-art research lab, the GW NetLab will help researchers explore leading-edge innovations in telecommunications and networking. Initial research in the lab will focus in the areas of integrated wireless technologies, network security, emerging telecommunications standards, optical and satellite transmission and integrated broadband networking. "NetLab is a unique industry-university-government research partnership," said Dr. Timothy Tong, dean, GW's School of Engineering and Applied Science. "The concept for NetLab and its research agenda are fully driven by the needs of industry." NetLab was created as a result of the 2000 NetCom 21 Workshop held at GW, which brought together a wide range of industry, government and academic officials for the first time to explore unmet telecommunications and networking research and training needs in the Northern Virginia high-technology corridor. This initial telecom-munications summit was made possible by a grant from CIT. "CIT uses its awards as seed money to generate innovative projects and new enterprise throughout Virginia," said Jean Woods, director, Advanced Telecommunications and Internet Infrastructure. "We are thrilled to see that our grant to GW contributed to NetLab development, and in turn, to potential NetLab projects with major organizations such as Litton TASC and ITT. Perhaps most exciting is the news that NetLab faculty and graduate students have been discussing with a smaller Virginia firm the path for migrating the company's internet-based programs to a wireless Web application." Several research projects are already underway in the GW NetLab, including several with founding sponsor Litton TASC. "With the opening of Netlab at GW's Virginia Campus, we are moving to launch several key research activities in conjunction with university faculty members," said Patrick Talty, director of Litton TASC's Communications Systems Business Unit. "These include enhanced security for broadband wireless systems, advanced simulation tools to design improved network resilience and recovery in large-scale switched telecommunications systems and new design concepts for advanced millimeter broadband satellites." According to Dr. Joseph Pelton, director of GW's Accelerated Master's Degree program in Telecommunications and Computers and director of the new lab, "a primary purpose of the lab is to support graduate student learning and experimentation. Our students will greatly benefit from being actively involved in real-world cooperative research and development work with industry. " For the lab, GW will draw from its rich student population, including students from the Master of Science in Telecommunications and Computers program offered at the GW Virginia Campus. This outstanding accelerated program was designed specifically for the fast-track high-technology community. It allows working professionals to earn a Master of Science degree without career interruption in only 16 months. For more information on NetLab, visit http://www.seasva.gwu.edu.
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