Iterative Connections
ITR has over 25 years of experience in the design and development of communications error correction technology, and particularly in the satellite industry.
Iterative Connections, an ITR spin-off company, was born out of the culmination of that experience in the area known as 'turbo code'. Former ITR PhD student and now head of ITR's Engineering Projects Group and Managing Director and CTO of Iterative Connections, Associate Professor Adrian Barbulescu, commenced working in this area in the mid 1990s, aiming to understand and improve upon new iterative techniques reported by French scientists. Adrian received his PhD in the area and continued to provide key input on R&D programs with large organisations such as Inmarsat (UK) and Intelsat (US). The Inmarsat work culminated in the world’s first commercial satellite system, introduced using ITR-developed turbo codes.
Subsequent work by Associate Professor Barbulescu and his team has resulted in specific implementations of turbo codes in field programmable gate array technology that provides performance very close to theory, and gives a number of other advantages over solutions offered in the industry. The technology, S-TECTM, not only offers superior error performance, but also turbo encryption for added security. Iterative Connections is now successfullly licensing S-TECTM to overseas organisations choosing to use this leading-edge technology to enhance their satellite products' performance and competitiveness.