World leaders backed by a thriving community of smaller innovative companies, are pushing the limits in this fast changing environment, developing key technologies for wireless and mobile technologies: wireless links, VoiP solutions, transmission protocols, systems on chip (SoC) and semiconductors, ground networks, MtoM solutions, Communicating Objects and NFC solutions as well as software applications for on line security and content processing & delivery.
The Côte d'Azur Telecom cluster represents a total of 8,600 jobs, half of them in R&D activities with 42 Million € of private investment for R&D programs.
Multinationals and start-ups can take full advantage of the various fiscal and financial programs offered to boost and support innovation:
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Annual turnover: 4.2 billion euros
Nearly 50% of cluster companies have R&D operations
Companies: 1.260
Fields of activity : Telecoms & Networks, Space Industry & Aeronautics, Software Engineering, Design Firms, Microelectronics, Multimedia & Online Services, Image Processing (2D/3D).
Jobs: 20.390
Leaders : Altran Praxis, Amadeus, ARM, ASK, Autodesk, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, DailyMotion, Dassault Systemes, Fortinet, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Icera, Infineon Technologies, Lagardere Active, Mentor Graphics, Oracle, Orange Labs, SAP Labs, ST-Ericsson, Sunplus mMobile, Symantec, Texas Instruments, UDCast, Thales Alenia Space, Thales Underwater Systems, Wall Street Systems,..
Success Stories : 3Roam, Centile, CSR Cambridge Silicon Radio, Insight SIP, Lumilog, OpenPlug, PacketVideo, Prim'Vision, Smartcom, Stonetrip, Verimatrix, VoIP Telecom, ...