Information & Communications Technology

Ireland has developed a successful and profile ICT cluster that employs 45,000 people and generates exports in excess of €21billion annually. Eight of the world’s top ten companies such as Apple, IBM, Intel, Hewlet Packard, Dell, Oracle, Lotus and Microsoft have a substantial presence in Ireland.

With a well trained workforce, excellent access and top-quality telecommunications infrastructure , Waterford presents an excellent location for ICT companies.

In addition to these strengths, specific measures have been put in place to support the ICT sector. Specifically Waterford Institute of Technology established the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) a resource of 85 experts including programmers, engineers and research students. The TSSG’s main area of research is communications software services encompassing emerging architectures for management of complex telecommunications and internet systems as well as next generation service development and deployment. The TSSG can bring strong expertise in the areas of distributed systems and service oriented architectures, particularly when applied to communications and telecommunications domain. The TSSG is made up of two primary divisions – the Research Division and the Commercial Division. Thus, TSSG pursues a combination of academic and commercial excellence. TSSG is currently managing a portfolio of 30 projects. TSSG is the largest group in Ireland engaged in such a critical mass of activity relating to communications software services and one of the most successful integrated research clusters in any academic domain in Ireland. For further information on TSSG visit www.tssg.org or www.wit.ie

The South of Ireland – ICT Success
The South of Ireland has benefited from the success of the sector in Ireland and the region hosts profile companies such as:

• Alcatel (France)
• Altera European Trading (United States)
• Analog Devices (United States)
• Apple Computer (United States)
• AOL Europe (United States)
• Decare Systems (United States)
• Freesale Semiconductor (United States)
• I&E Systems Pty (Australia)
• IMTF Software (Switzerland)
• Infoscore Software Services (Germany)
• McKesson Information Services (United States)
• Moldflow (United States)
• Motorola Softwared Development (United States)
• Option Wireless (Belgium)
• Red Hat (United States)
• Silicon & Software Systems (Netherlands)
• Sun Life Information Services (United States)
• Trend Micro (Japan)