Canada-Japan agreement promotes ICT development

Industry Canada’s Communications Research Centre (CRC) and Japan’s Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) have agreed to collaborate on joint research projects related to information communications technologies. Under the MOU — the second such agreement between CRC and CRL — the two organizations will work together on terrestrial wireless, satellite communications, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, multimedia services, next-generation networks and other wireless and network technologies. The two research centres previously worked together on the first demonstration of tele-medicine using high definition television technology. CRC and CRL also hold a joint patent for a low-cost technique to generate high-frequency signals for new multimedia wireless communications systems….