Martin Maier is promoted to the rank of full professor at INRS.

Martin Lévesque is awarded a doctoral scholarship from the research agency FQRNT of the province of Québec.

New book on "FiWi Access Networks" authored by Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi is now available. This is the first book on FiWi access networks filling the vast gap between countless optical and wireless broadband access network textbooks.

Martin Maier is appointed as adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University for joint smart grid research and student co-supervision.

Research Infosource ranks INRS number 1 among Canada's top 50 research universities in terms of research intensity.

Martin Maier gives interview on the Energy Internet in Planète INRS.

The federal Canadian research agency NSERC announces its financial support of the lab's visionary research on future low carbon society technologies through its prestigious Strategic Project Grant program over the next three years.

Martin Maier is invited as panelist to the Colloque Annuel Réseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Québec (RISQ) to outline his vision on the future of broadband access networks.

The World News (WN) Network, a global leader in online news, features the hot docs of the Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory.

Yash Desai from IIT Mumbai, India, successfully finishes an exciting research internship in (and outside) our lab.

The article "The Road to Carrier-Grade Ethernet," co-authored by Kerim Fouli and Martin Maier, has been included as the one comprehensive reference on carrier Ethernet networks in the new edition of Computer Networks, one of the most widely used computer networking textbooks at universities worldwide.

Mohammad Kiaei is awarded the FQRNT International Internship scholarship to conduct research on advanced polling schemes for NG-PONs at the Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

Sarwarul Chowdhury is offered a doctoral scholarship to pursue his PhD studies on smart grid security at the University of Toronto, ON, Canada.

Martin Maier and three of his colleagues are guest editors of the upcoming Special Issue of Computer Communications on Progress on Broadband Access Networks and Optical-Wireless Convergence.

Navid Ghazisaidi is awarded the FQRNT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for his work on FiWi broadband access networks. Navid's application was ranked first by the FQRNT committee for Information and Communications Technologies.

Kerim Fouli successfully completes his PhD studies and joins as a postdoctoral fellow Prof. Muriel Médard's research group at MIT, Cambridge, USA.

Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory as part of INRS becomes new member of the Ethernet Alliance.

Navid Ghazisaidi finishes his research visit at Arizona State University and joins Ericsson, San Jose, CA, USA.

New book on "Security in Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Broadband Access Networks" authored by Sarwarul Chowdhury is now available.

Martin Maier is invited to serve as the Technical Program Committee Co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2012 Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, to be held in Ottawa, Canada, on June 10-15, 2012.

Martin Maier is appointed to the Editorial Board of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRAI) Journal of Convergence.

Martin Maier is appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN) Communications and Networking journal.

Kerim Fouli is awarded the FQRNT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for conducting research on next-generation access networks.

Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting firm, profiles Navid Ghazisaidi's and Martin Maier's research on frame aggregation in FiWi access networks in the Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology (MWCT) alert developed by its Technical Insights division.

Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi give opening talk about their recent FiWi research at IEEE WCNC, workshop on integrated optical-wireless networks, Sydney, Australia.

Navid Ghazisaidi receives FQRNT International Internship scholarship for a research visit at the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Martin Maier is featured in the interview section of IET Electronics Letters to talk about the motivations and future plans of the Optical Zeitgeist Laboratory and its pioneering FiWi research.

Cambridge University Press offers a contract to Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi to co-author a book on their pioneering research on bimodal Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks and their vision for future-proof broadband access networks.

Kerim Fouli receives NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement scholarship for conducting research on next-generation PONs (NG-PONs) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.

Navid Ghazisaidi is selected by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, as a visiting researcher to collaborate on integrated fiber-wireless (FiWi) access networks.

Martin Maier is invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Computer Communications journal.

New book on "Broadband Access Networks: Technologies and Deployments" co-edited by Abdallah Shami, Martin Maier, and Chadi Assi is now available.

New book on "Equalization Advantages of OFFH-CDMA over WDM in EDFAs" authored by Kerim Fouli is now available.

The book "Optical Switching Networks" authored by Martin Maier is now available also in Japanese.

Martin Maier gives an interview to the research magazine Découvrir on the group's pioneering work on bimodal Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) broadband access networks.

Martin Maier together with his colleagues Michael McGarry from University of Akron and Martin Reisslein from Arizona State University receive the prestigious 2009 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award for their work on EPON architectures and DBA algorithms.

Japanese publisher Maruzen concludes an agreement for a Japanese language edition of the book "Optical Switching Networks" authored by Martin Maier.

Martin Maier and Navid Ghazisaidi in collaboration with Martin Reisslein co-author invited paper on "The Audacity of Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) Networks" to be presented at the AccessNets conference in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Kerim Fouli wins prestigious NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) for his PhD studies on optical coding enhanced access and metro networks.

New book on "Optical Switching Networks" authored by Martin Maier is now available.