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Conclusion

The telecommunications and information technology sector has always been an exciting and productive area for Canada and this remains as true today as 50 years ago when communications research at Shirleys Bay first started. Although the industrial side has experienced several up and down cycles during this period, the sector nevertheless continues to grow worldwide and market opportunities exist for products that are both timely and add efficiency or new applications for infrastructure operators.

The federal government, for its part, has articulated a number of major objectives for Canada for the next decade, and among these is to become or remain a world leader in research, connectivity and innovation. At the same time, there are a number of operational and policy issues that Canada and other nations face as communication networks become more complex, vulnerable and open to the rest of the world. The leadership opportunities for a laboratory such as CRC are obvious. This plan outlines some of the future directions that CRC, together with its partners, will take to meet the many challenges that are facing us in the future.