The Global Network Interconnectivity programme run by the University of Otago Telecommunications programme, in cooperation with Open Cloud and MediaLab, is developing research, enterprise training, and knowledge sharing activities in support of new ICT technologies, such as JAIN SLEE, that are contributing to telecommunications, multimedia, and information systems convergence.

ONGENS (Otago Next Generation Networks and Services Test Bed) -- a national and international facility for the trial and test of advanced distributed networking applications and multi-processing service-oriented applications. In particular, the ONGENS test lab has been established as NZ's leading facility for testing JAIN SLEE applications.

VODCA: a View-Oriented, Distributed, Cluster-based Approach to supercomputing: This project aims to investigate the techniques for efficiently implementing the View-based Consistency model. A cluster is a collection of workstations or PCs that are interconnected via a Local Area Network (LAN). It can take advantage of high-bandwidth LAN techniques. A cluster only consists of commodity off-the-shelf components, which can provide potentially similar capabilities to supercomputers. This project aims at investigating, proposing, and implementing novel, efficient (low latency) message passing techniques for the implementation of the VC model on a cluster of workstations.

Shared Memory based Supercomputing on Broadband Networks of Workstations : This project aims to investigate a novel approach to shared memory based supercomputing on broadband networks of workstations. We are conducting theoretical research on a novel model and related issues for high-performance virtual supercomputers and experimental research of that model based on high-bandwidth Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.

Parallel Logic Programming on Distributed Systems: Parallel processing of logic programs in distributed systems takes advantage of highly scalable parallelism in distributed systems to speed up logic-based Artificial Intelligence application systems. This research project aims at investigating execution models, abstract machines, and implementation techniques for building parallel logic programming systems efficiently on general purpose distributed systems.

KIWI Lab (The Knowledge, Intelligence, and Web Informatics Laboratory): research in distributed artificial intelligence, data mining, multimedia, and robotics.

The Distributed Computing & Software Agents Research Centre: research in distributed autonomous software agents. Communication among the agents, which can be embodied as robots or embedded in physical devices, is primarily asynchronous and over wireless networks.

The Security Research Group in the Information Science Department: includes research in communications and network security.