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The Department of Telecommunications was founded in the year 1967. In first years, the activity of the Department was concentrated on circuits’ theory and signals, digital and impulse techniques, transmission systems and switching systems, telecommunication networks and their reliability. Close connection between department and telecommunication practice was in mentioned time. Department activities were focused on modern trends in communication technologies. Several new laboratories were built. The education gradually increases in domain of software based subjects. Focus of department activity was extended to multimedia content research and creation. That was declared by modification of title department from January 1, 2008.
At the present, Department of Telecommunications and Multimedia covers wide scope related to communication technologies and processes in education and research. Professional activities are connected to specialized laboratories. In the field of telecommunication technologies, attention is focused on problematic of communication networks, access technologies, convergence of network technologies with main activities oriented on quality of media services. In term of fixed networks, department has significant activities in the field of research and development technologies for broadband all optical networks. This field is closely associated with research activities at the Department of Physics. Wireless technologies are oriented on mobile and satellite communications, positioning systems as well as to DVB-x. The field of digital signal processing has significant research activities, especially from semantic analyses and annotation of audio and video signal perspective. Relatively new field at this department are multimedia technologies. In this case, main orientation is focused on technological part and also on part of multimedia content creation. It is represented by image composition, stylistics and work with multimedia data. The main target of this area is support of future multimedia services. From the number of students’ point of view, the department is one of the biggest departments at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. The department played significant role in creation of Institute of Next Generation Networks. It is association between University of Žilina and Slovak Telecom, Inc.. Main target of institute is knowledge transfer between university and industry environment as well as solving of mutual projects. |
