Me and Telecommunications

Me and Telecommunications

 

 

Speech coding is about bit rate reduction of digitized speech, and telecommunications is about transmission of coded speech (and, of course, transmission of video, audio, data etc. - but speech is still by far the most important payload in telecommunication networks). Speech coding and signal processing was very well covered when I was a research engineer at the University of Kiel, but telecommunications were somehow missing. So I went into telecommunications and joined Nokia in 1998.

While writing embedded software and creating concepts for telecommunication network elements I learned a lot about this:

And continuous learning still goes on ...

Some more articles will follow soon!