Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is a university-level institution with over 10,000 students and 1000 staff. The Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for ICT research and innovation founded in 1996 at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Since then, it has expanded from telecommunications network management to include next generation internet, trust and security, autonomics, privacy preserving data mining and social computing, big data analytics, amongst others.

Founded in 2002, Trust-IT’s central asset is a highly-skilled, dynamic, international team SME that performs quality ICT market research and result-oriented stakeholder communication and engagement strategies.  it also develops software tools and services working closely with SMEs, government and research institutions.

Eurescom – European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH – is the leading private organisation for collaborative R&D in European telecommunications. For its members, the European Union, and other customers, Eurescom performs multinational research projects on networks, services, applications and further aspects of telecommunications.

The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET, the world's first packet- switching computer network and embryo of the current worldwide Internet. University of Utah, in partnership with Salt Lake City, and the Utah Education and Telehealth Network, is the coordinator of the NSF funded Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research (POWDER).