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Created on 1 January 1994, the "Networks and Telecommunications Services" (RST) department is one of the departments of Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. The RST department is located on two campuses, Évry-Courcouronnes and Palaiseau, less than thirty kilometers apart.
 
The RST Department provides network skills within Télécom SudParis, from network infrastructure to services, with strong expertise in cybersecurity, quality of service, optimization, protocols, virtualization, learning methods, etc., for various application sectors like industry 4.0, energy, transport, telecommunications, mobility, health, smart-*, etc.
 
The RST department is heavily involved in network courses for Télécom SudParis, both on the Évry-Courcouronnes campus and in specialization courses on the Palaiseau campus. It is responsible for the network training area and acts in this field to coordinate all network teaching activities, both in the core curriculum and in specialization. It coordinates several training courses and teaching modules in initial training, work-study programs, specialized masters, masters of science, and in the DNMs of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. In particular, it coordinates two advanced courses for Télécom SudParis - "System and Network Security" (SSR) and "Architecture and Intelligence for Networks" (AIR). The department is also involved in continuing education activities.
 
The RST department conducts sustained research activities, both applied and theoretical, in the field of networks and cyber security. The professors of the department are also members of the Samovar laboratory, in the teams NeSS and SCN. Recognized for its level of expertise and the quality of its research, the department regularly sets up national and international collaborations with industrials (operators, manufacturers, and all industrial partners in the digital sector) and academic partners, but also research chairs. It hosts a large number of interns and doctoral students selected for their high research and innovation potential. Some of this work is based on the "Very High Speed" or "Cyber-security" platforms.
 
To carry out all of these activities, the department relies on the skills of a team composed of teacher-researchers, a platform engineer, research engineers, doctoral students, post-doctoral students, and two department assistants.