With 40% of France's public research in the telecom sector being carried out in Brittany, the Rennes Atalante Science & Technology Park is now acknowledged to be Europe's leading centre for telecommunications.

Companies here offer a full range of skills in this industrial sector i.e. components, networks, software engineering, digital imaging, sound techniques and MMI.

Centres of excellence Image & networks Wireless technologies Telecommunication services Digital television Software technologies Information system security

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Jobs in the IT sector

In Ille-et-Vilaine, a total of 20,000 people are employed in more than 350 companies within the electronics and IT sectors.

Brittany has more than 885 IT companies, employing a total of 50,000 people.

Recruitment potential

•  745 IT graduates per year in Rennes, i.e. 10% of the total number of graduates in France as a whole
•  5,200 IT students out of a total student intake of 58,500

Timetable of new research centres

2007 - NXP Semiconductors (The Netherlands)

2005 - Motorola (United-states) - Renesas Design (Japan)

2003 - Silicon Laboratories (United-states) - Texas Instruments (United-states)

2002 - IETR (Institut d'électronique et de télécommunications de Rennes)

2000 - Rohm LSI Systems (Japan)

1999 - Cégétel SI (today SFR SI)

1997 - Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe/R&D (Japan)

1996 - Philips Semiconductors (Netherlands)- Itis/Groupe Harris Broadcast (United-states)

1995 - Mitsubishi Electric ITE/R&D (Japan)

1994 - AT&T Bell Labs (United-states)

1992 - Wandel and Goltermann (Germany)

1991 - Canon Research Centre France (Japan)

1985 - Alcatel

1978 - Transpac (today Orange Business Services)

1975 - Irisa/Inria

1972 - Thomson

1972 - CCETT (today France Télécom R&D and TDF Direction technique)