The Reciba laboratory of Telefonica I+D, Telefonica de Espana SA’s research and development subsidiary, has been chosen, together with three other scientific centres, to form part of a Pan-European Laboratory that will test proposed management systems for Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks. This laboratory is to be set up by Eurescom, a European research and development association formed by telephone companies. Other participating laboratories chosen from among 13 candidates are those of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, Italy’s telecommunication laboratories and studies centre CSELT and British Telecommunications Plc. Telefonica said that its selection was further recognition of the its subsidiary’s work in the field of broadband networks.
