KPN Telecom ... builds communication platform for regional multimedia industry Nowhere in Holland is the concentration of companies and institutions developing and applying multimedia communication tools as high as it is in the Eindhoven region. Innovations by important companies such as KPN Telecom, Philips and the Technical University have been adopted as world-wide standards. Many companies which, until now, have had little in common with each other, are now bundling their strengths on the KPN Telecom platform which provides a fast communication infrastructure. In this way they can develop and exploit new markets and give the multimedia activities within the region a new and powerful impulse. The linking factor is ICT: the Information and Communication Technology, which is initiating such fundamental changes to our society. The Personal Computer, which brought about a revolution in (office) automation during the eighties, has now given us new communication possibilities, with Internet as the prime example. In ICT, automation and telecommunication techniques work hand in hand. They complement and reinforce each other, and offer a future in which picture and satellite telephony, teleworking and teleshopping will be common-place. Together with partners at home and abroad, KPN Telecom is building an infrastructure for world-wide multimedia communication. Internet and The Net offer businesses hitherto unknown opportunities and possibilities. Eindhoven Region is the breeding ground for telematica and multimedia companies who are developing products and applications for the virtual markets of tomorrow. A market place on the information highway KPN Telecom is turning the information highway into a high speed motorway. New ways of packaging and transmitting information are increasing the capacity of Holland's largest computer network - the telephone network - at an exponential rate. ISDN, ADSL and SDH give new dimensions to telephony and bring videoconferencing and multimedia communication via Internet and The Net within reach. Glass fibre circuits connect the economic and administrative centres of our major cities and offer a high speed and reliable communication platform for ICT companies. CityRing Eindhoven has rapidly developed into an electronic market place, where companies and institutions can present themselves and can communicate with their respective target groups. From telecommunications to ICT company KPN Telecom has grown from a telecommunication company to a market leader in Information and Communication Technology. KPN Telecom is building the communication infrastructure of the future. For this it combines its experience of more than a century with the newest developments and patented techniques. As an ICT company, KPN Telecom can offer solutions for the most diverse automation problems. Whether in the form of ready-to-use computer networks for small and medium-sized companies or unique, global communication facilities for integrated speech and data traffic between the various national organisations of multinationals. Eindhoven: multimedia capital of the Netherlands KPN Telecom works together with other companies, governmental organisations and knowledge institutes within RED - Regio Eindhoven Digital - to make the electronic highway completely accessible to both businesses and consumers. RED offers companies starting out in Telematica and multimedia communication agencies accomodation and development facilities in centres such as the Twinning Centre and the Multimedia Pavilion on the grounds of the TUE. KPN Telecom also provides with The Net and CityRing Eindhoven a development and communication platform for such initiatives that allow Eindhoven to position itself as the Multimedia Capital of the Netherlands. (uit publicatie van de Foundation for the Promotion of the Eindhoven Region)