TSSG's Research Unit 3MT held a Innovation Breakfast Seminar on June 4th in Dublin. It included information on Innovation Vouchers, Innovation Partnerships and a testimonial from Iricent.

1. Innovation Opportunities
Breakfast Seminar
Steven Davy, Research Unit Manager, 3MT 4h June 2015

2. AGENDA
• Hazel Williams – TSSG Overview
• Steven Davy – TSSG Expertise
• Alan Walsh – TSSG Case Studies
• Ger O’ Byrne– Iricent Testimonial
• Steven Davy – EI Innovation Partnership
• Close & Networking
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3. TSSG Overview
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Hazel Williams, Marketing Executive

4. Research & Innovation at WIT
 400 research staff & postgraduate research students
 172 Principal Investigators, Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Researchers &
Research Assistants supported by sponsored research > €7.8 m payroll
 Approx. €20m research expenditure 2014
 Strategically developed research in key areas:
 Pharmaceutical & molecular biotechnology
 Advanced materials engineering
 Telecommunications software & systems
 R & D funding (2009 /14) €60.7m (EU, SFI, EI etc)
 Enterprise Ireland is a critical partner investing €24m in applied & experimental
development research and support infrastructure (2009 – 2014)
 Enhanced capacity by supporting key roles & programmes – e.g. Centre
Managers, Technology Transfer, New Frontiers
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5. Economic Impact
•60 client companies based in the Kilkenny &
Waterford incubators over a 10 year period
•Currently 23 client companies based in Kilkenny &
Waterford employing 130 staff
•5 direct spin outs licensed technology since 2010
•15 licences (2010 – 2014)
•19 Innovation Partnerships in past 5 years
•365 Innovation Vouchers completed for SMEs (2009
– 2014)
•More than €1m paid by industry for access to
specialised consultancy services (2009 – 2014)
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6. STAFF
EXPERTISE
PARTNERS
SCIENCE
President of WIT Prof Willie Donnelly and
TSSG CEO Barry Downes.
Has 100+ Researchers
Fraunhofer, CNRS, HP Labs, Deutsch
Telecom, Intel, IBM, Cisco
Leading software R&D Centre with particular
expertise in networks, mobile and
communications services.
Connected globally with other Research
centres, this is reflected in the Post Doc’s
and PhD Students with a total of 40 in
NetLabs
INTERNATIONAL
is one of Ireland’s leaders in the EU
collaborative R&D programmes (FP7 /
Horizon 2020) and has worked with over
450 companies on these programmes.
INDUSTRY
Completed over 110 direct industry projects
in Ireland over the past 3 years and has
spun out a number of leading international
start-ups such as FeedHenry Ltd.
Telecommunications Software & Systems Group
TSSG
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7. 5-Jun-15
Innovation Model
What we offer

8. 8
Networks
Network Virtualization
Software Defined
Networking (SDN)
Mobile
Mobile Cloud Platforms
(PaaS) and advanced
mobile applications
Communications
Services
Communication Services
Platforms (PaaS) and
applications e.g. Web RTC
TSSG Core Focus Areas
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Cloud
Software Platform and
Infrastructure as a Service
Virtual and
Augmented Reality
VR/AR Communications, 3D
User Interfaces, Education,
Simulation and enabling
hardware
Data Mining
Predictive Analytics
Social Network Analysis
Data Security
TSSG Core Focus Areas
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10. Summary – What does TSSG provide?
• Provides a comprehensive Innovation Platform for industry.
• Access to highly skilled staff (MSc and PhD applied Maths, Engineering, and
Computing).
• TSSG’s ArcLabs provides incubation space. Co-locating with TSSG increases
formal and informal knowledge transfer.
• Test Bed facilities, and state of the art Cloud Centre in house.
• Competencies - a core expertise strong mix of research and commercial
expertise.
• Track record of analysing product roadmaps to support companies with R&D
initiatives to drive these roadmaps.
• Track record of delivering high value products and mobile applications for
global companies.

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MOBILE, MESSAGING & MIDDLEWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Experts in Web Technologies,
Cloud, Internet, SDN+NFV
DR. STEVEN DAVY
3MT Unit Manager
sdavy@tssg.org / +353 (0)51 845680
www.tssg.org/research/units/3mt

12. TSSG Expertise
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Why engage with TSSG?

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3MT
Mobile, Messaging & Middleware Technologies
• WebRTC as a core technology to empower
communication through the (mobile) browser.
• Leaders in MicroService architectures for
efficient Cloud Platforms.
• Developing Networks for the Future with new
protocols and architectures – SDN, NFV.
• Diverse portfolio of verticals including
Transport, Health, Education, Entertainment,
Aquaculture
• We are Researchers, Developers,
Project Managers, PhD Students,
Innovators.
• We are experienced in delivering
solutions for Irish companies, through
Enterprise Ireland funded initiatives.
• We are your link to Europe and H2020.
• We are Agile.

14. Why engage with TSSG?
Professionals
Experts in our Field
Leaders in European Research
Excellent Track Record
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15. TSSG Case Studies
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AltoCloud EI Innovation Partnership
PANDA EI Commercialisation Fund

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Venues are attracting
mobile savvy spectators
demanding high speed
Internet

17. Customer
Analytics
Operation
Dashboard
Revenue
Streams
User
Experience
Liquid Edge Vision
Monetization of High Density WIFI at Large Venues
€

18. Aquaculture Open Data Cloud Innovation

19. Project Overview
Environmental
Transactional
Quantitative
Qualitative
Open Data
End-User focused
Mobile
Adaptive
Multi-lingual
Training
Business Case
Dissemination
Exploitation
Activation
Market
The AQUASMART project is a H2020 Innovation Action that seeks to harness the
use of Open Data to radically improve the quality of fish production for the EU
Aquaculture industry

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PRISTINE: Summary
 Designing and implementing the internals of the RINA clean-
slate architecture
 FP7 ICT
 Start Date: 01-2014
 Duration: 30 Months
 EU-Funding: 3.3M€

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3MT
Altocloud Details
• Innovation Voucher – January 2013
• Contract R&D February – September 2013
• Innovation Partnership (IP) October –
September 2013 - 2014

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3MT
Altocloud Challenge
• Create a Minimally Viable Product within the
lifetime of the IP
• Create an entirely cloud-based call centre/data
analytics infrastructure using WebRTC as the call
medium
• Compete with current call centre solutions

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3MT
Altocloud/TSSG Actions
• Establish a common Development environment
for two independent teams
• Create basic cloud-hosted project/development
infrastructure
• Investigate existing IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Establish development language stack(s) and
service components

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Altocloud/TSSG Results
• Established a Docker enabled
Development/Testing/Staging/Production set of
environments with common components and
setup/configuration
• Continuous Integration with automated
unit/acceptance testing
• Enabled Agile/Scrum project management

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Altocloud Progress
• Company made public debut in May 2014
• Had revenue producing clients by the end of the
IP
• Has had two rounds of venture funding
• Has over 10 staff and clients in the USA and
Ireland

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3MT
TSSG/3MT Benefits
• Development structures and Docker technology
is now being rolled out to new projects
• Applying proven cloud technology
• Disseminating real world experience

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3MT
PANDA – Access Control for
Communications
• A Commercialisation Fund (CF) 18 month project
• Building on SFI/FAME basic research
• Using proven technologies, basic research and
new languages/architecture

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3MT
TSSG/3MT

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3MT
TSSG/3MT
Questions

30. Iricent
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Ger O’Byrne

32. Who We Are
• Iricent was founded to help enterprises and service providers take advantage of
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)
based technologies
• Our team has decades of experience in both the vendor (Siemens, NSN, Nokia) and
service provider (Eircom) communities and we have developed and implemented
networking solutions on behalf of customers, small and large, around the world
• We are working with both established global vendors and innovative start-ups, all of
whom share a passion to bring the advances experienced in compute and storage,
such as virtualization and cloud management, to networking

33. Management Profile
Ger O’Byrne
Co- Founder
Ger has over 25 years’ experience in telecommunications and IT networking,
working with major industry powerhouses including eircom, Siemens, Nokia
Siemens Networks and Nokia. He started his career in technical roles in network
design, implementation and project management. He moved into sales and then
held a series of senior management roles including General Manager Siemens
Communications and Country Director Nokia Siemens Networks Ireland. Ger has
a Master of Science (Experimental Physics) degree from University College
Dublin, a CDipAF from the ACCA as well as several technical and management
qualifications
Damian Murray
Co- Founder
Damian has almost twenty years’ experience in telecommunications and IT
networking, working with major industry players including Siemens and
Nokia. He started his career in technical roles in enterprise data networking.
He moved on to product management and then held a succession of senior
Sales and Business Development roles across enterprise and service
provider segments. Damian has a degree in Electronic Engineering from
Dublin Institute of Technology and an MBA from University College Dublin

34. What We Do
• Our key focus is service enablement by taking advantage of the combination of
– Cloud Technology and its widespread adoption
– Software defined networking and virtualisation as it applies to networks and
– Proliferation of high capacity, low latency bandwidth
• Our goal is to leverage the benefits of these new open platforms and technologies to drive further
innovation in the form of new business applications and services
– Service provider gains additional revenue streams and protects against competition/churn
– SP combats the impact of over the top by delivering tightly integrated packages of services to customers
– Business user (typically the SME) can now take advantage of complex IT delivered as a service with limited capital or
resource commitment
• We aim to achieve this through a unique combination of carefully selected partner platforms and a strong
portfolio of related own or “off the shelf” applications and services

35. Challenges
• Market knowledge and technology partners but…………..
• Needed help with product definition and development – esp. in
terms of SW
• Obviously coming from large high tech MNC company backgrounds
knew how new products developed but now on our own as start-up
• Needed to add own “special sauce” to the mix
• In particular as a start-up needed help with evaluating product ideas,
product development and getting funding

36. When Iricent met TSSG
• Spoke to a number of academic institutions
• TSSG by far most
– Knowledgeable about SDN / NFV
– Experienced in related technology areas
• TSSG very forthcoming with advice – technical and other
– great whiteboard sessions
• TSSG very helpful in supporting funding applications

37. Iricent and TSSG – The story so far
• Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher No. 1
• Technology and market overview
• Informed and confirmed our focus area
• Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher No. 2
• PoC
• Informed and confirmed our technology choices
• Contracted Development Work
• MVP
• Part funded by Local Enterprise Office

38. Thank you
• For more information visit
• www.iricent.com
• or contact us at info@iricent.com

39. Enterprise Ireland
Innovation Partnerships
Programme
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How do I engage with TSSG?

40. Innovation Partnership
• “The Innovation Partnership Programme encourages Irish-
based companies to work with Irish research institutes
resulting in mutually beneficial co-operation and interaction”
• Minimum 20% Cash contribution from the Company
• Up to €200k contribution from EI (€100k for start-ups)
• Requires Development Advisor to review proposal plan prior
to submission to EI.
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41. Application Process
• Phase 1 – Pre Approval
– Option 1 – IP Outline Proposal
– Option 2 – IP Feasibility Study Grant
• Phase 2 –
– Option 1 - Full Proposal Submission
– Option 2 – Express Proposal Submission
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42. Submission Timeline to IRCC
• Submission Date  Approval Date
• 10 June → 22 July
• 8 July → 19 August
• 5 August → 16 September
• 9 September → 21 October
• 7 October → 18 November
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43. EI Contact Details
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Steven Davy, Research Unit Manager, 3MT
stevendavy
@sdavy2009
StevenDavy
sdavy@tssg.org
+353 51 845680
+353 86 0505821

45. Thank you for your attention
Any questions?