KEYWORDS USED FOR WWW SEARCH:

Corporate communications, collaboration, object-oriented communication

PROJECT NAME:

R&D on technologies as object-oriented communications and those that would realise collaboration through corporate communications networks

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Research & Development Department Telecommunications Advancement Organisation of Japan

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

Verification of object-oriented communications technology that would accomplish communications link among various applications residing in systems with different OS and differing scales. The project also includes R&D efforts as well as verification tests that relates to congestion-avoidance technology essential to the ATM switching system that achieve high speed transmission between different networks. The project, as a whole, will aim at an implementation of system facilitating that will be instrumental in the construction of enhanced industrial infrastructure.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

The project, through R&D on object-oriented communications technology to realise collaboration on communications networks, is intended to make a contribution to the formulation of advanced information communications infrastructure that will serve enhancement in industrial and management infrastructure including information communications industry.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

As penetration of the resulting technology increases, there will be a significant enhancement in industrial and management infrastructure relating to collaboration among corporations working in groups through accumulation and sharing of information etc.

TARGET GROUP:

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

TAO, Kawasaki City, Researchers on loan from manufacturers etc.

USE OF INFORMATION / TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

Information communications technology in general

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

The project will contribute to the establishment of an advanced information communications platform that will encourage enhancement in the industrial and management infrastructure of all industries including those enterprises associated with information communications.

EXPECTED COST:

1.5 billion yen