
The Telecommunications Technology Center of Catalonia (CTTC), located in Castelldefels, is a public and non-profit RDI center funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. It conducts research and innovation in communications and Geomatics.
Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA)
6G/5G; SDN/NFV; orchestration; elastic optical networks; artificial intelligence/machine learning; MANO; satellite communications; physical layer technologies; GNSS; positioning; IoT; software defined radio; antenna/RF design; earth observation
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Technological capabilities
The research activity is structured around nine Research Units (RUs): Sustainable Artificial Intelligence (SAI), Information and Signal Processing for Intelligent Communications (ISPIC), Adaptive Processing Technologies (ADAPT), Services as Networks (SaS), Open Simulations (OpenSim), Packet Optical Networks and Services (PONS), Space and Resilient Communications (SRCOM), Navigation and Positioning (N&P), and Geomatics (GM).
The CTTC has several technologies that have either been transferred to the business world or are likely to be.
Among them are:
- Hardware accelerators for embedded System-on-Chip for GNSS-SDR (IP core).
- Antenna array with controlled radiation pattern: with a Real-time implementation.
- 5G User Terminal for non-terrestrial networks).
- TeraFlowSDN, an open source software-defined networking (SDN) controller.
Technological fields

IoT / Sensors, DLT / Blockchain, Connectivity, Cloud / Edge

New space
Relevant equipment
The CTTC has two buildings in the Mediterranean Technology Park (3500 m² and 3550 m²), with eight laboratories (optical networks, mobile, geomatics, etc.), seven testbeds for networks and communications (such as ADRENALINE® and IoTWORLD®) and, from 2023, new equipment for research into 6G.
CTTC location
