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?

DescriptionImplications

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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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