Challenges and Mission

Traffic volume in networks ( both fixed and wireless) has been continually growing by 30 to 50 percent per year for more than ten years due to the increasing use of IP-based services. There is no end in sight to this trend. On the contrary, peer-to-peer services and applications such as IPTV, Second Life, You Tube and Joost can only continue and strengthen this development.

Over-Proportional Increase

The Market Demands Optimised Multimedia Services

The Mission of the Heinrich Hertz Institute

The meaningful shaping of the world of information and communication demands fundamental answers to the question of how an information society, which aspires to fair and equal access opportunities to communication for all participants, can be brought into being.

The Heinrich Hertz Institute sees itself as being in a position of responsibility in this regard.