High Institute of Communication and Information Technology (ISCOM)

The High Institute of Communication and Information Technology is a research and technical body of the Italian Communication Ministry whose aim is a deeply involvement in the area of standardization, research and services applications in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technologies. ISCOM offers a technical support also to the Italian Communication Authority, public Administrations and others bodies involved in research, standardization, lab testing and intellectual training. Involved in several European projects and actions as COST 218, COST 246, COST 270, COST 291, ACTS-ESTHER, IST ATLAS and NoE ePhotonOne+. Member of International Standardization Bodies as ITU, IEC, ETSI etc. Office II Sector IV of ISCOM is working and is involved on topics related to: theoretical and experimental investigation on high bit rate WDM systems, wavelength conversion and optical 3R regeneration, distributed and lumped amplification, low-cost receivers implementation, investigation and realization of broad band Passive Optical Networks (PON) and free space optical communications (FSO).