Italtel is an Italian company operating in the global ICT market with solid background in telecommunications. Headquartered in Milan, it has R&D labs in Italy and offices in 14 countries. Italtel employs more than 1,300 people, with more than 250 of them working abroad. 39% of Italian employees are dedicated to Research and Development. Italtel mission is to power seamless communication of people and things providing solutions for digital transformation. Italtel operates in EMEA and LATAM across several vertical markets such as Telecommunications, Public Administration, Health, Defence, Finance, Energy and Manufacturing. Italtel offers solutions based on proprietary and third-party products empowered by professional services for designing, installing and manage complex network solutions. In its offer are proprietary products, engineering and network consultancy services, managed services and solutions. Italtel proprietary networking products have been reengineered according to Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Computing approach. SDN, NFV, 5G, MEC, IoT, AI, Big Data Analytics and cybersecurity are the focus areas of the current R&D activities.