IDT, Northeastern University Collaborate on Research to Improve Data Analytics, Caching and Bandwidth in Access Networks

Integrated Device Technology, Inc

  announced today it has entered into a research project with Northeastern University to improve data-intensive analytics and caching in support of future 5G infrastructure development. The goal of the yearlong agreement is to find ways to help organizations, like telecom companies, better manage huge volumes of data. More specifically, the researchers will seek  new ways to use IDT's RapidIO low-latency interconnect technology to move and manage vast volumes of unstructured data--including video, voice, images and text--in both wireless and wireline access networks. The agreement deepens the relationship begun last year when Northeastern expanded its regional strategy to San Jose by embedding a hub campus in IDT's headquarters. Under the research partnership, three members of the Northeastern faculty and two PhD students will work with IDT engineers on the project, based at IDT's Open High-Performance Analytics and Computing (HPAC) Lab in Ottawa. "One of IDT's primary goals of bringing Northeastern to our headquarters was to team with leading academics on important research," said Sailesh Chittipeddi, IDT's chief