Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) and the Technische
Universität Berlin (TU) honor the award winner Anja
Feldmann at the Leibniz lecture
Oct 31, 2011
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Prof. Anja Feldmann is a prime example of the high
caliber of scientists and profound expertise at T-Labs
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T-Labs: New name - new role - new management
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Entrepreneurial spirit, outstanding researchers and
developers - source of new ideas and solutions
Today the established Leibniz lecture is taking place in
Berlin on the occasion of the award ceremony. This is
attended by numerous representatives from the worlds of
business and science, including Edward R. Kozel, Chief
Innovation and Technology Officer (CTIO) of Deutsche
Telekom. "We are proud that Prof. Anja Feldmann, one
of our professors, has received this accolade for her
scientific works about the Internet", says Kozel.
"T-Labs is a perfect example of a successful marriage
of science and business. It already has a track record of
exceptional achievements and in particular it has built up
profound knowledge with excellent research and development
professionals for our core subjects. A new direction means
that T-Labs will focus even more on the development of new
products and services for Telekom customers in
future".
Telekom Innovation Laboratories: driver for innovations
"Innovation" has been added to the name to
indicate this new direction. With its approximately 360
employees from 20 countries at sites in Berlin, Darmstadt,
Bonn, Los Altos (USA) and Beer Sheva (Israel), T-Labs is
therefore now officially called Telekom Innovation
Laboratories (T-Labs).
Heinrich Arnold has been appointed manager of the new
T-Labs. The innovation manager - a former Stanford student
and doctoral graduate - has already managed numerous
organizational and strategic in an innovation context, was
co-founder of several companies and was previously head of
the Innovation Development department at T-Labs. "At
T-Labs we concentrate on Telekom's core business and
combine the best of the three worlds of entrepreneurship,
science and Telekom expertise to achieve the best possible
effect for the Telekom business", says Arnold about
his new role.
The new focus of the work at T-Labs is on the development
of applications and services for interactive media and new
telecommunications applications, as well as in the areas
Connected Home, Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Smart Grid and
Mobile Payment. It will continue focusing on cloud
applications, the development of broadband networks and the
optimization of Telekom's infrastructure.
In addition to its work with scientists, T-Labs will
increase its cooperation with start-ups that are a
significant driver of innovations. Berlin as the
headquarters of T-Labs and as the nucleus of the European
start-up scene offers ideal conditions for this.
Integration with non-European innovation scenes is achieved
with branches in Los Altos in Silicon Valley (USA) and Beer
Sheva (Israel).
An example of the high level of competence at T-Labs is
Prof. Anja Feldmann, PhD, who holds the endowed chair of
"Intelligent networks and management of distributed
systems" of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at TU
Berlin. Prof. Feldmann received the 2011 Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz Prize for her findings on network optimization.
Feldmann is considered the Internet expert in Germany and
is also well regarded internationally. In particular with
her work on Internet traffic analysis and modeling as well
as Internet routing, she has already had a considerable
impact on the practical development of the Internet, beyond
the fundamental research.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading
integrated telecommunications companies with around 128
million mobile customers, 35 million fixed-network lines
and almost 17 million broadband lines (as of June 30,
2011). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile
communications, Internet and IPTV products and services
for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and
corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in
around 50 countries and has approximately 241,000
employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR
62.4 billion in the 2010 financial year - more than half
of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2010).
About Telekom Innovation Laboratories
Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) is the research
and innovation unit of Deutsche Telekom. The linking of
its R&I activities with the Technische Universität Berlin
(TU) and several other universities, institutes, industry
partners and start-ups around the world ensures that
science, business and entrepreneurship are closely
integrated. In Berlin and other sites in Darmstadt, Bonn,
Beer Sheva (Israel) and Los Altos (USA) around 360
experts from the Group and scientists from all over the
world are developing innovative services and solutions
for Telekom customers. Another way of using the findings
is to establish new business areas.
