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How Innovation enables Portuguese families to broaden their horizons

J-P. HegemannSVP Sales & Marketing Carrier EMEA

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IntroductionThanks to Fibre and forward thinking

network operators Portuguese families will be able to take advantage of new services and entertainment and even working from home.

– Simultaneous HD TV– Sending home videos to friends– In the near future enjoy HD video

conference links from the living room

All enabled by the installed infrastructure

– providing a genuine “next generation access” capability

Source Microsoft

Source MEOPortugal Telecom

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What do these services demand from the infrastructure

Bandwidth

• With no “up to” …..

• No contention

• High Upload speed

• The FCC are talking 100Mb/s

• Limitations in different solutions

• A network that is future proof

The data speaks for itself - the only future proof solution is fiberSource FTTH Council Europe Business Guide

DOCSIS

Fiber

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Innovation

– Learning from problems– Adapting lessons learnt from

alternative technologies– Pushing boundaries beyond the

standards– pioneering new ideas– All result in

• cost savings• Reduction in time • Reducing need for skills Opening

up valuable resource by reducing skill levels for repetitive tasks

Most importantly innovation drives improvements in reliability and QoS

Is key to the success of today’s fibre solutions

ClearCurve® Fiber

FlexNap™

The 1st low lossSingle mode fibre

Multifibre RuggedisedPre-installed Connectors

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Innovation is not a given• To be successful requires a combination of:

– Dedication and commitment• From suppliers• From like minded customers

Both a process and a puzzle

– Not all global change – also minor improvements– Works best when parties work together in partnership– Not all innovations fit all customers– Partnerships lead to new innovation

Global innovation spread

Local feedback

Local trialsNew innovations

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A view of the future• Requirements will be driven by the customers and application

developers becoming more bandwidth hungry• Infrastructure needs to be ready :

– Regulators set minimum standards

- (FCC wants 260 million people on 100Mbps broadband by 2020)

– No funding available to re-invest so a future proof network is the only way to obtain State Funding

– A fair deal for everyone- new emphasis on reducing the cost for rural communities

– Customers demand more choice requiring multiple service offers - industry provides solution

– Customers demand bandwidth anywhere any time- i-phone and integration with Distributed Antenna Systems

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In Summary

• Innovation has opened up enormous opportunities

• Here in Portugal customers are amongst the fortunate to benefit from innovation

• Regulation must help remove uncertainty for all by setting minimum performance standards

• Forward thinking operators will continue to strive to provide future proof Next Generation Access

• Corning will continue to innovate

Connecting homes to a brighter future with…

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FTTH