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Our Mission

Established a decade ago, the TeNeT Group is today a coalition of 14 faculty from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Departments of IIT-Madras who work together towards a few common goals in research and product development. The focus is to address pressing needs of India and other developing countries by market-driven product development, strengthening of Indian telecom/networking industry, technical training and education, and driving telecom/IT policy.

Our vision is "World-class Technology at an Affordable Price". At different times, this vision translates to various tangible goals. For some years, it was to enable 100 million telephone and Internet connections in India. As this goal is a reality, we now have other missions. These include:

  • enabling 50 million broadband connections in the next five years
  • doubling the rural GDP of India
  • turning India into a telecom Design House for the world
  • enabling one or two billion-dollar product companies in India
  • driving the next generation of international wireless standards specifically for India
  • high quality distance education with an emphasis on rural areas.

The TeNeT Group has about two hundred full-time researchers, engineers and other technical staff, and project students working in over 10 dedicated labs. Currently, the Group works in diverse areas including Wireless Communications, Computer Networking, Fibre Optics, Digital Systems Architecture, Network Management Systems, Integrated Voice/Video/Data Communications, Indic Computing and applications for rural development.

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