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Technology

Digitel keeps its technological area through Research and Development, which is responsible for the product development process based on innovation, quality and market needs.

This process involves, also, other company areas, such as:

  • Marketing (product) – search and adaptation to market needs, product launches and innovation;
  • Industrial Engineering -  product adaptation when going from project to industrial construction viability, as well as prototype assembly;
  • Procurement – development of suppliers and components to be used in the projects;
  • Purchasing -  acquisition of components and relationship with already established suppliers;
  • Quality – support to ISO 9000 norms follow-up and support to quality audits, assuring clients’ needs, technical requirements and productivity are reached.

R&D comprehends the development areas according to project key applications:

  • Copper modems (xDSL);
  • Optical Modems;
  • Wireless;
  • Networks (IP and TDM);
  • Network management.

Special Projects

Besides that, there are two teams supporting those areas project people:

  • Product engineering – product design, layout and manuals, besides Industrial Management relationship.
  • Tests – test plan development and execution, equipment control and calibration and quality.

R&D should master key technologies for the Our Business: DSP (digital signal processing), FPGA (gate array); radio frequency, bundled systems, open systems, network management, DSL, optical networks, protocols and IP in general.

R&D structure contemplates professionals with a university degree; most of them are post-graduated, largely experienced in projects, working along with universities and the most advanced research institutes in the world.    Besides that, they count with modern laboratories and investments which are considered priority by Digitel, in a continued way, aiming at anticipating trends and increasing the company’s competitiveness both in the national and international markets.