NBN Co makes $3m R&D deals with universities – Telco/ISP – iTnews
NBN Co is set to invest around $3 million into “collaborative” R&D agreements with the University of Melbourne and the University of Technology Sydney.
It is expected that the agreements will also fund “post-doctoral research opportunities and student exchanges”, though it is understood finer details are yet to be worked out.
R&D work is broadly expected to be around technologies including “robotics, IoT, technology for social good, programmable networks, data analytics and visualisation for customer experience, artificial intelligence, wireless technologies and smart cities”.
NBN Co has already been pursuing this kind of work internally through its CTO office. It laid out ambitions to become an IoT player, for example, back in late 2016.