Skolkovo Innovation Center will take part in the world’s biggest mobile event - Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, on 27 February - 2 March 2017. MWC traditionally brings together industry leaders, visionaries and innovators to explore the trends that will shape mobile industry in the years ahead. The upcoming shift from 4G to 5G networks and an increasing number of mobile devices issue new challenges for mobile tech companies in terms of speed improvements, enlarging IoT network and M2M communications. The mobile data traffic is expected to grow seven times in the next five years, according to Cisco, and companies from Skolkovo Innovation Center provide the state of the art solutions for telecom operators. Mobile World Congress Sergey Khodakov, Operations Director of Skolkovo’s IT Cluster: “Europe and Asia are already connected by 8,000 kilometers of Rostelecom’s high-capacity cable along Russia’s Trans-Siberian route. Cutting-edge Russian IT technology is used to adapt the bandwidth capacity to the rapidly growing IP-traffic volumes between East and West. We are delighted to unveil the latest Russian mobile tech developments at MWC, which can be used by telecom operators for all kinds of traffic applications, including voice, data and video.” Maxim Zharenov, Director for Telecom area of Skolkovo’s Space and Telecom Cluster: “Russian telecom operators expand their networks in the vast territory of Russia providing mobile connections. They are constantly upgrading their network infrastructure from 3G to 4G and will have upgrade to 5G in the nearest future by deploying many thousands of new BTS. High throughput E-band wireless backhaul with beam-scanning capabilities, Big Data applications for traffic management solutions supplied by Skolkovo resident companies make transfer to new mobile carrier network technology much faster and cheaper in terms of deployment and operation costs.” The Skolkovo booth will present twenty top companies offering a full range of solutions for telecom operators, including white label personal cloud solution for mobile carriers’ clients, web applications acceleration services, virtual load balancing technologies, analytic tools for web users’ activity, content delivery network (CDN) services and an automatic fiber fusion splicer. Several projects will showcase a platform for smart home and VR, including indoor navigation for autonomous robots, copters and people working their way through an airport, a stadium or a large shopping mall. The companies can be found at the Skolkovo booth F61 in Hall 6. RDP.RU High-performance platform for logistics optimization The company moves from software-defined devices concept towards software-defined networking and network function virtualization. Key product: EcoRouter is a IP/MPLS router, a network carrier grade x86-based equipment designed for execution of critical importance functions on the aggregation, core, BGP border levels and also as P, PE-router in IP/MPLS-networks. Cloudike Premium white-label personal cloud for mobile carriers Cloudike’s cloud solution is a major staple of consumer mobile bundles and data plans. Serving major markets such as Turkey, Korea, Indonesia and Russia. The company’scustomer list includes major players such as Vodafone, Indosat Ooredoo, KT, Megafon, and Vestel. Brain4Net Network and services management systems based on SDN/NFV Product: B4N Service Platform - a comprehensive network orchestration and service delivery software platform for multi-vendor physical and virtual network infrastructure that automates service provisioning, which utilises advantages SDN and NFV architectures. Marvelmind Robotics Precise (+/-2cm) indoor “GPS” for autonomous robots, copters and VR Marvelmind is a robotics company that designs, manufactures and sells robots and robotic systems. The flagship product - Precise (+-2cm) Indoor "GPS" – sales started in 2015. The system was sold to customers in more than 30 countries. NFWare High-performance virtual CG-NAT and virtual load balancer Product: vLoadBalancer provides the industry-highest performance, allowing a significant increase in network speed for high-loaded deployments and protects from DDoS. vCG-NAT solution helps to extend the life of an IPv4 network infrastructure, mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion and provide a seamless migration to IPv6. TopView Smart analysis of Web users’ activity Product: Topview smart analytics technology allows to conduct AI-based Web traffic analysis and create a profile of web user’s interests and needs. The technology is implemented in NetPolice Info service smartly monitors a child’s web activity, creates a child’s map of interests and calculates the rate of web risks. Multi Digital Services Mobile Internet exchange platform with LTE quality and local prices around the world Product: Mobile Internet Exchange Platform for MNOs & MVNOs. The product provides LTE quality and local prices around the world as well as new distribution channels for all telecom players. Astera Predictive maintenance application for telcos and IoT with the high accuracy of prediction Astera’s predictive applications bring data from various systems together and analyze all possible interactions, provide predictions in real time about imminent incidents on specific equipment. This allows prevent revenue leaks and reduce maintenance costs. Radio Gigabit Millimeter-wave radio backhaul systems with steerable antennas Radio Gigabit is a provider of innovative technologies and components for an emerging market of millimeter wave communication systems. Product: Radio Gigabit offers 60 GHz and 70/80 GHz multi-Gbps point-to-point radio solutions, licensed to several customers and deployed worldwide. The company is a provider of steerable lens antenna technology, the only solution on the market for high-gain electronic beamsteering at millimeter waves. Asteros Labs Contact center unified agent desktop and customer feedback solution Asteros Business Contact is a software platform which is designed to automate business processes of contact centers and front offices and to provide unified interface–Agent Desktopto all business applications which are used for servicing the customers. «Asteros Business Contact» provides additional functionality of sales & services business process for omni-channel infrastructure with Unified Agent Desktop and customer feedback solution. WiMark Multi-vendor Wi-Fi management solution WiMark creates virtual network functions for management of Wi-Fi networks. WiMark decouples Wi-Fi management functions from the hardware and runs them as virtualized instances across standard x86 servers without loss of performance. Product: The Virtual Universal Wi-Fi Controller Platform is software for centralized Wi-Fi network management that can easily replace high priced vendor-specific hardware WLAN controllers without decreasing the quality of service and compromising functionality of network. Prof IT Ventures Backend as a service platform for accelerating development of mobile, hybrid and web applications Product Scorocode - cloud backend as a service platform that accelerate development of mobile, web and enterprise applications on Swift, Java and JavaScript with npm Node.js support. Intervale Payment and information solutions and services for mobile operators, banks and retail Established in 1999 Intervale works with Mobile Operators, Banks, Processing Centers, Retailers and Post in CIS and EE countries that launch payment services. Intervale’s Payment Platform is a tool to acquire, authenticate, and authorize financial transactions across multiple channels. The Communication Platform provides channels and engine for mobile marketing, voice, push, SMS, and E-mail messaging. Navigine Comprehensive software platform for precise positioning Comprehensive software platform that enables precise indoor positioning solutions. 300+ installations across 10+ countries. 100+ technology partners and 5+ years of R&D. Head office in New York City, sales office in Berlin, R&D department in Moscow. Product: B2B software positioning platform that enables advanced mobile wayfinding, proximity and tracking solutions leveraging multiple types of hardware infrastructure. Navigine tools provide the best ROI for indoor positioning solutions, quick scalability and easy integration. Vintera.tv International multiscreen OTT/IPTV platform ViNTERA.TV provides with the different services for viewers, IPTV/ISP operators, broadcasters and advertisers. Pre-Roll/banner advertising inventory ~ 6 billion requests per month. The company offers CDN service from 3.3 EUR for 1TB. Aerostate Worldwide air quality forecasts at city-block resolution Aerostate is a data platform that helps adding air quality information to your products. We transform the raw forecast data into actionable insights for users to provide air quality analysis and up to 4 days forecast at the resolution of a city block. Product: Aerostate solution distributes air quality information via API and as SaaS. It delivers sustainable value to industry leaders and increases engagement of the end users. CDN Video Global CDN provider leading in Russia and CIS countries CDNvideo is a global provider of CDN services to anywhere in the world that helps to optimize Internet performance of web and mobile resources, making it faster, more reliable and secure for endusers. Product: Whether it be increasing the speed of mobile website or app, delivering content or live stream, CDNvideo can provide a full range of industry-specific services with unique features: ·Mobile sites and games acceleration ·Scripts and images optimization ·VOD and Adaptive Live streaming ·Video Player with auto play for mobile browsers ·Ad injection into streams for all types of devices to avoid Ad-Blockers. RSC Labs Innovative platform for high-performance computing systems development Product: RSC Exascale Supercomputing Technologies is an innovative platform for high-performance computing systems development, which provides new levels of compactness, energy efficiency and reliability to demonstrate a practical possibility for creation of Exascale level supercomputers. Vee Route High-performance platform for logistics optimization in various industries VeeRoute develops a programming platform that is a base for advanced logistics optimization solutions across the industries with top-ranking algorithms, high flexibility, platform modularity, elaborate architecture, wide range of integrations with existing ERP and CRM systems and strong R&D as the basis for product development, MaxTelCom Innovation in fiber fusion splicing Maxtelcom designs high-technology equipment for fiber optic networks making a breakthrough in innovating automatic fiber fusion splicer. Product: A new device with the mission to make fiber optic networks establishment easy, reliable and affordable both for companies and individuals. About the Skolkovo Foundation The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,500 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through June 2016 reached $1,6 billion. They brought in more than $350 million in investment, creating 21,800 jobs and filing over 1,900 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information:http://www.sk.ru/en Press Contact Skolkovo Taisiya Yarmak +79166948826 tyarmak@sk.ru