Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

Telecommunications Research Laboratory

The telecommunications revolution has transformed our lives. With mobile phones, computers and the Internet, we are used to communicating almost anywhere, any time. Now we are ready for an even greater revolution - ubiquitous communications.

Computing, communications and content are converging. People will be able to instantly access any service or information they want, from virtually any device. But achieving this demands wireless communications that can reliably accommodate ever more complex multimedia applications, and reach wider audiences, using increasingly sophisticated mobile devices.

Since its inception in 1998, the Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL) has been at the cutting edge of research into technologies for next generation cellular, wireless local and personal area networks and reconfigurable device architectures. TRL works closely with colleagues in Toshiba's development laboratories to ensure a timely transfer of technology from its research phase, towards standardisation and into products.

Today we continue to make groundbreaking advances in emerging areas, ensuring Toshiba has the technologies to assert its position as one of the world's leading consumer electronics companies. At TRL, we are constantly reinventing the future.

TRL is headed by its Managing Director, Professor Joe McGeehan CBE, FREng, Professor of Communications Engineering at the University of Bristol and Director of the University's Centre for Communications Research.