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Another Suntech project to be co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education  September 25, 2008

Under Technology Initiative I, the programme run by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Suntech S.A. obtained a grant of PLN 1.47 million to develop a prototype of the New Generation Network Inventory system. The purpose of the project is to create an innovative system for end-to-end management of network resources owned by the telecommunications operators and management of the related information in business processes. The application will allow the company to become one of the global leaders in this sector.

The project’s innovativeness consists in the fact that the Network Inventory system utilises the possibilities offered by mobile communication and new technologies of the spatial information management (GIS). Suntech already offers the innovative Network Inventory product, however its Research & Development work is future-oriented and aims to meet the operators’ requirements, which will emerge only after a few years from now.

This advanced product is intended for the global telecommunications market, in particular for the operators which use expanded infrastructures. They include mainly fixed-line and mobile operators which employ various access technologies, such as GSM, UMTS, CDMA, WiMAX, FTTH or HFC.

”Building on our ten years’ experience in the development of the Network Inventory systems and based on a new concept & technology approach, we want to complete the project in order to offer the best-in-class product in the world”, says Piotr Saczuk, the Board Chairman of Suntech S.A. “Thanks to the support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, we can implement more ambitious projects, which will result in the export of Polish science & technology conceptions. We are working on this project in close co-operation with the Warsaw University of Technology.”

The Suntech Initiative is already a second undertaking carried out with the participation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The first project focused on the development of the Real Time Biling system under Sub-action 1.4.1.