Telecom Italia Turin research centre celebrates 50th year
(AGI) Turin, Dec 3 - Telecom Italia's centre for research andinnovation celebrated its 50th year on Wednesday. It was set upin Turin in 1964 as CSELT and has now become TILab. Thecelebration in Turin was attended by Mayor Piero Fassino andTelecom Italia's chairman, Giuseppe Recchi. The TILab holdsmore than 3,000 patents, at home and abroad. They weredeveloped after more than 50 collaborations with topuniversities in Italy and the U.S. Among the centre'sachievements are: the first experiments with undergroundfibre-optic communications in the 1970s, which are the basis ofbroadband; the definition of