MONTREAL – Optical tech manufacturer Corning Incorporated today formally opened a research and development center in Montreal on Monday, one focused on discovering and developing software solutions for the telecommunications industry.
The Corning Technology Center Montreal will serve as the company's global center of software innovation to support emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cloud computing, and data analytics, as well as software solutions for optical-wireless networks, reads the press release.
Software engineers from Corning's research, development and engineering organization will collaborate with developers from iBwave Solutions, the Montreal-based provider of networking software solutions that Corning acquired in 2015.
The Montreal site joins Corning's network of research and development laboratories throughout North America, Europe and Asia, anchored by the company's Sullivan Park innovation center in Corning, N.Y. Over the next three to five years, Corning intends to hire software engineers, development team managers, and data analysts at the Montreal cente, says the release.
"The work that will take place here in our Montreal technology center will extend Corning's innovation capabilities beyond optical transport and connectivity, all the way to the intelligence required to deploy and enable those applications,” said said Claudio Mazzali, senior vice president of technology for Corning's Optical Communications business segment.
"In addition to the immediate and near-term applications in Optical Communications systems, what is also very exciting to me about Corning Technology Center Montreal is how these new capabilities in software, artificial intelligence and machine learning will support a corporate strategic initiative in materials and process informatics and modeling across our technologies and businesses," said David Morse, Corning executive vice president and CTO.
Corning Technology Center Montreal will also build ties to the region's software-innovation community through membership in IVADO, the Montreal-based research institute for data science, operational research, and artificial intelligence.
"Our data science ecosystem will greatly benefit from collaborative projects with the Corning Technology Center Montreal, bridging academic expertise and business needs," said Gilles Savard, chief executive officer of IVADO. "We are thrilled to welcome Corning as our newest IVADO member and look forward to working together on developing innovative digital solutions for the telecommunications industry."
