Organization: Communications Research Centre

Editorial 31-5

After several years of low-profile, leading-edge activity, the Communications Research Centre is once again at the forefront of Canadian research and innovation. In addition to pioneering the use of the cloud to conduct public R&D, it has launched a ground breaking Big Data Analytics Centre which is being billed as the world’s first innovation laboratory for telecom regulation and dynamic spectrum management.

CRC leading charge to move government IT into the cloud

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) has successfully completed a pilot project that could pave the way for cloud-based R&D across government, signalling a dramatic transformation in how many government researchers work and collaborate.

DRDC funds 26 safety and security projects

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has announced $20 in funding for 26 industrial, academic and government projects aimed at enhancing safety and security. Project leads include DRDC, the Communications Research Centre, Environment Canada, London Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Transport Canada and the Yukon government. The projects are funded under the Canadian Safety…

CRC wins Emmy for broadcast audio research

The Communications Research Centre — the research arm of Industry Canada — has won its third Emmy Award for R&D on the standardization of loudness metering for use in broadcast audio. The CRC received the award January 12th at the 63rd annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards program in Las Vegas. Former CRC researcher Dr…

Amika Mobile wins CICP contract for CRC

Ottawa’s Amika Mobile Corp has won a a contract to provide the Communications Research Centre (CRC) with its emergency mass notification capability server. The contract was awarded by the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program, which was established in 2010 to allow smaller businesses the opportunity to use the federal government to beta test and validate innovative…

CRC inducted into Telecom Hall of Fame

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) has received a special recognition award from Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame for more than 50 years of leadership in commercialization. Since its beginning in 1951 as the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment within the Defence Research Board (DRB), CRC has been in the forefront of advances in telecommunications, including satellite…

Canadian telecom firms sign Hong Kong deals

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) has renewed an MOU between Industry Canada and Hong Kong’s Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau. The MOU will see further R&D collaboration in the areas of wireless technologies, software, broadband networks, security, e-health, e-government, digital entertainment and multimedia. The MOU was signed at the recent ITU Telecom World event in…

CRC and India’s C-DOT sign joint development pact

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) has signed an agreement with India’s Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) to develop broadband wireless technologies for rural and remote areas. The agreement focuses on applications development of a CRC-created technology called Microwave-Light Organized Network. The system avoids the costly laying of fibre-optic cables or using other expensive infrastructure…

CRC signs key wireless cooperation agreement

The Communications Research Centre (CRC) has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Hong Kong Wireless Technology Association that will provide for access to testing facilities and new markets for technology transfer and licensing and establish the basis for future research collaboration. The agreement is considered a critical step towards accessing the Chinese market, considered…

CRC spearheads formation of national wireless network

The Communications Research Centre will chair the Canadian Network for Wireless Centres (CWNet), aimed at assisting smaller firms moving wireless communications technology into the marketplace. The network also includes: Network for Emerging Wireless Technologies, International Institute of Telecommunications, Telecom Applications Research Alliance, Canadian Centre for Marine Communications and Wireless Innovation Network of BC. Initial initiatives…