Investing in innovation

INTRACOM HOLDINGS' main participating companies maintain a strong commitment to innovation and R&D. Total investment in R&D amounts to 5%-7% of Group's annual revenues. Throughout its history, the Group's total investment expenditure has amounted to
€1 billion and R&D expenditures have reached €500 million. INTRACOM HOLDINGS' main subsidiaries operate several world-class R&D Labs, and have registered a number of international patents.

R&D programmes aim at developing cutting-edge products and competitive solutions on an international level that will meet the future business needs of organisations, agencies, and companies. Through the implemented projects, the advanced offered solutions and the pioneering R&D programmes, INTRACOM HOLDINGS is acknowledged as a group investing in the creation of innovation, technology and knowledge.

The 2003 - 2005 "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" reports, compiled by the European Union, list INTRACOM among the top 300 largest European companies (irrespective of business sector) with the highest R&D investment. In 2006, INTRACOM HOLDINGS received the "Research and Technological Development" award from the Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Over the past five years INTRACOM HOLDINGS' participating companies have participated in more than 180 international research programmes (often as the lead partner), and they have registered (through the Industrial Property Organisation and the European Patent Office) a significant number of international patents.

Advanced infrastructure

More than 1,800 highly trained scientists and engineers, specialising in state-of-the-art technologies, are working for INTRACOM HOLDINGS group.

In order to facilitate the rapid design and development of technologically advanced, high-quality products and systems that meet the business needs of their customers, INTRACOM HOLDINGS main participating companies operate sophisticated and advanced R&D laboratories within their facilities, such as: VLSI/Microelectronics, Digital Signal Processing, Content Delivery Systems, Network Management Systems, Multimedia Systems, Operation and Business Support Systems, Lottery Systems, EMI/EMC System Design Certification, Instruments Calibration Centre, Printed Circuit Boards, Broadband Networks (wireline and wireless), Internet and Web Applications, Banking and Enterprise Solutions, and EM Radiation Measurements (Tempest NATO standards).

Strong international partnerships

INTRACOM HOLDINGS' participating companies collaborate and maintain strategic partnerships with internationally renowned companies with the purpose of jointly conducting research and developing new products and services. Indicatively, such companies are: Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, Axxcelera, BGT-DIEHL Defence, Boeing, Cisco, Computer Associates, Comverse, EADS Telecom, EMC, Ericsson, Genesys, Hewlett Packard, IBM, KMW, LogicaCMG, Marconi, Motorola, Nomad Software, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Raytheon, Rheinmetall Defence Electronics, SAP, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Thales, Carl Zeiss Optronics and others.

Developing innovative products

INTRACOM HOLDINGS is strategically investing in international companies that design and develop state-of-the-art products and solutions, and provide high quality professional services. The systems developed compete on an international level with products developed by leading manufacturers worldwide. Indicatively, some of them are:

* IBAS-DSLAM, FASTmux, FlexAccess, IAS-F (broadband wireline access systems)

* WIBAS, IAS-W (wireless access systems)

* IDR/Intralink, Microlink (wireless transmission systems)

* FS-CDN (content delivery system)

* SecLine series (encryption devices)

* IDR 21M, FQUAD 450M (secure military radio coupling systems)

* WISPR, WISPR WLAN, WISPR NET, VSAT (high-tech military tactical communications systems)

Investing in knowledge

To promote scientific research and graduate education in the field of Information Technology and Telecommunications, INTRACOM HOLDINGS established AIT (Athens Information Technology; www.ait.edu.gr), an educational and research centre that offers, in collaboration with the world renowned Carnegie-Mellon University (USA), a specialised post-graduate programme leading to a Master of Science degree in Information Networking. AIT also offers two more academic postgraduate educational programs: MSITT (Master of Science in Information and Telecommunications Technologies) and MBIT (Master of Science in Business, Innovation and Technology). To date, AIT has granted more than 300 scholarships to students from 21 countries.

AIT is a Strategic Partner of Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, a comprehensive research and education centre aimed at developing new technologies for the enhancement of cyber security and promoting safe, responsible computing for home users and enterprises.