delivery of future content
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BT and strategic research into next-generation communication and applications. Presented at "Implementing Future Networks, Content and Services with Secure and Efficient Systems." At the University of Surrey 20th Sept 2010TRANSCRIPT
Jonathan Legh-Smith
Head of Partnerships & Strategic Research
20th September
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BT Group: the strategy today
BT RetailBT Global
Services
BT Wholesale
Openreach
BT Innovate
& Design
BT Operate
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2/3 of UK premises
passed by 20154m premises
passed by end of
2010
1.5m premises
passed by early
summer 2010
10m premises
passed by
2012
Openreach: creating the super-fast fibre access
network
• Install c.30,000 cabinets
• Lay over 50,000km of fibre
• Train & up-skill c.4,000 FTE
• Enable over 1,000 exchange areas
Backhaul
Fibre
CopperCore network
Underground
distribution
Overhead
distribution
FTTC
Configuration
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� Freeview
�On-demand TV
and films
�ESPN Sports
�HD download
BT Retail: next generation TV
Today Coming to a screen near you...
BT Vision Vision 2.0
Project
Canvas
Premium
Pay TV
�BBC iPlayer on BT Vision
�More HD content, enhanced distribution
�Advanced recommendation and search
� Integrated on-demand and linear TV
�Catch-up and archive PSB content
�Open platform
�Premium channels (e.g. sports)
� ‘Must have’ linear channels
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BT Wholesale: quality-assured video content
distribution
Content
Exchange BRAS ISPEU ISP Core
Network
wCCwCC
Broadband
Access
Network
WWW
Broadband Access Network
The broadband access network can
either be self provided (LLU) or
purchased from a network provider
like BT Wholesale
Core Network
Traffic traverses the
core network to reach
the broadband access
network
Peering
Internet CDN traffic
reaches the ISP
network via
peering or transit
links
Content providers can place
videos directly into the broadband
access network bypassing core
network and peering
Internet
CDN
Internet
CDN
ISP
The ISP manages
traffic in his network
to balance user
experience with
network cost
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Three Strategic Research Themes
•Defining the Infrastructure for
the UK Digital Economy.
•Validating the services required
to support Smart Metering,
Smart Cities, Transportation,
Heathcare, …
•Increasing BT’s agility by linking
opportunities in the new
economic and social landscape
to their consequences on BT’s
platform and people resources
•Creating a unique mass market
TV experience.
•Harnessing the momentum of
social networking and combining
with advanced SFBB-based
communications.
•Future Internet Architectures
•Cognitive Radio
Smart BritainSocial TV &
Communications
Efficient
Organisations
Enabling projects
for Core Research
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Social TV and Communications
• ‘Social TV’ is an emerging
concept that sees television
evolving from a passive
experience to one that is more
social, interactive and personal
•Social TV will allow participants to
•discover, recommend and
chat about TV content
•communicate and interact in
the context of watching TV
•Social TV, like social networking,
has the potential to be a self-
reinforcing phenomenon
Opportunities
•Create compelling mass market TV experiences
which combine TV content with social networking
and communication services.
•For BT to actively encourage and promote the
development of new capabilities that will enable
new or improved services
Key questions
•How can TV be best partnered with social
networking and communication services to
provided an attractive experience for viewers?
•How can BT encourage, enable and promote third
party application development?
•How do we retain the ability to launch and adapt
such services quickly?
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Smart Britain
•More is required of the UK’s future
internet infrastructure to support
sectors like transportation, energy
and healthcare in a low-carbon
Digital Economy
•Each sector requires an
information infrastructure that
enables the capture, distribution &
analysis of real-world, public and
business information.
• Information & content, both real-
time & non-real-time, must be
securely accessed, transmitted
and stored across an increasingly
de-perimeterised infrastructure.
Opportunities
•To create the UK’s Digital Economy infrastructure
offering the core information and communications
services required to support:
• the Energy, Transportation, Health etc. services
envisaged by Government
• the information-driven business ecosystems
required of Industry.
Key Questions
•How to architect large scale information-centric
networks:
• to enable users to both utilise information sources
and make personal information available
•to secure and protect the infrastructure
•to ensure information is easy to access if and only if
you have the right entitlements
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