The Media Networks Lab is one of the oldest research labs of IIT. It was founded in 1985 as “Digital Telecommunications Lab” and in 2011, it was renamed as “Media Networks Lab”. It is one of the most prestigious labs at National level, having contributed to the introduction and facilitation in the Greek market of new technologies related to telecommunications, such as digital terrestrial TV, digital satellite broadcasting, network virtualisation and recently in 5G/6G mobile networks. The scientific direction of MNL is the research and development in the telecommunication networks field, aiming at the optimisation of their resources and the maximisation of quality of the provided services.