Telstra Corporation’s Chief Technology Officer and Head of Innovation, Dr Hugh Bradlow, addressed an audience of over 50 customers and London Business School alumni and academics earlier this week at Telstra International’s office in London.
Dr Bradlow shared some valuable insights into technological innovation with a particular focus on key trends in ICT, technology challenges, and telcos and innovation. A core topic of discussion was the marked move towards omniscience and omnipresence.
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HUGH BRADLOW LEADS INNOVATION WORKSHOP – 2012 AND BEYOND
1. TECHNOLOGY AND TELCO
INNOVATION
Hugh Bradlow
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Innovation
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9. MOBILE DEVICES:
STILL PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
New User Interfaces
PC Processing Power
Speech
New device classes
Near Field Communications Emerging device classes
Touchscreen
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29. NETWORK CAPACITY
60
50
40
Spectral efficiency
30 improvements
X times 2008 value
Data demand growth
20
10
0 Further technology
improvements
2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
Spectral efficiency improvements and data demand growth relative to 2008
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33. ALL PROCESSING IN THE CLOUD?
- Multimedia will continue to be a barrier:
• A true thin client: video stream of 3.8Mbps
(average) for 322kbps MPEG-2 encoded
Video Server
video 1
• A thick client (handset based decoding)
reduces video stream requirement to
Corporate video:
0.43Mbps (average)1 9.5MB @ 322kbps
Delivering multimedia content to large numbers of thin client devices places
unsustainable capacity demands on the wireless access network
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67. MORE FLEXIBLE NETWORKS: OPENFLOW
A RADICAL APPROACH TO BUILDING NEXT GENERATION CORE NETWORKS
Current Routing: OpenFlow:
Closed System Open System
OpenFlow Control Plane
Router centralised
Controller
Control
Control OpenFlow
Data Protocol
Data Path Data Plane
distributed
Multi-vendor
Tightly integrated software Centralised (cloud-
environment (e.g. Cisco IOS) based) Control Plane
separated from
simplified (lower cost)
switching layer