FTW is a nationally leading and internationally acclaimed center for research and development of technologies for future communication systems. 

With a mid-term perspective in mind, we have identified major needs of society and its individuals in four Sectors:
(i) Communication,
(ii) Information & Entertainment,
(iii) Intelligent Transportation, and
(iv) Health & Living.

To address these needs we have defined a joint research program which follows a typical process chain of information, from its source to its human destination, and which comprises the following Core Competence Areas:
(i) Signal & Information Processing,
(ii) Communication Networks,
(iii) Services & Distributed Computing, and
(iv) User-centered Interaction & Visualization.

Research Topics: Telecommunications, Signal Processing, Information Processing, Telecom Networks, Networked Services, User Interaction, Visualization