Bell Labs
Changing the Future of Communications
•Danny Goderis
•Vice President Bell Labs, Belgium
•October 2010
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Outline
1. Introducing Bell Labs
2. Breakthrough Technologies & New Ventures Products
3. Vision: Changing the Future of Communications
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Introducing Bell Labs
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Bell Labs is the Alcatel-Lucent Innovation Engine
1,000
Scientists and Researchers
Global Reach with Presence in
8
Countries
Collaborations with 300+ Academic Institutions
27,600 Active Patents in total (2,100 patents issued in 2009)
400 publications and conference papers per year
7 Nobel Prizes in Physics
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Alcatel-Lucent Ventures is a corporate business incubator and venture
execution entity within the company
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- New business innovation and investment engine inside of Bell Labs
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- Internal ventures, external venture investments & joint ventures
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- Moving at the speed of a start-up with the resources of a global company
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Bell Labs Worldwide Presence
Ireland
Germany
• Green technologies
• Network software
• Radio/RF technologies
• 4G wireless base stations
• Very high speed Optics
South Korea
• Broadband access
• Mobile applications
USA – HQ
• Optics
• 4G Wireless
• Software & Services
• Computer science
• Mathematics
• Physical
technologies
China
Belgium
India
France
• Mobile & enterprise applications
• Optical transmission systems
• NG Internet networks
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• Wired/wireless access
• Mesh radio backhaul
• NG IP access & aggregation
• Immersive communication
• Video aware networks
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• Convergence architectures
• Networking applications
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Breakthrough Technologies & New
Ventures Products
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World Record in Copper Transmission: 300 Mbps over 400m
400m quad pair 0.6mm
World record demonstration of 300Mbps@400m over 2 pairs (or 100Mpbs@1km)
Innovative combination of vectoring, bonding & phantom
 1886: J.J. Carty came
with the idea to use
transformers in stead of
resistors (above figure).
 Shown here to create a
3rd virtual telephone line
 This is the phantom
circuit as known today.
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World Records in Optical Transmission
Transmission World Record
CHICAGO
PARIS
100 Petabit per second/kilometer
equivalent to 400 DVDs per second over 7.000 km
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Alcatel-Lucent Venture: Mobile Wallet Service
Access to financial services in
under-banked countries
International remittance
Hi Ch ris
Give me a call before 11AM.
John
Person to person payment
**Advtxt**
This Summer - Travel
Caribbean
Real Adventures:
Incredible Vacat ions & Great
Gateways
www.caribbean.co m
Remote ticketing
Proximity payment
1.4 billion wallets for banked and unbanked by 2015 (EDC, 2009)
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Alcatel-Lucent Venture: 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG)
Radio
•Mobile
Access
•Backhaul
Device
•NodeB
IP/MPLS
Network
•RNC
•SGSN
IP/MPLS
Network
•GGSN
•Internet
•Server
24.05-31.05
06.05-13.05
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Vision: Changing The Future
of Communication
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Changing the Future of Communication - Tackling Major Trends
Visual
Comm
Telecom
Cloud
Immersive
Comm
Sensor
Networks
Telecom
in other
industries
M2M
Design to
cost &
energy
Fixed &
LTE
Wireless
Green
Touch
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Immersion
The first video phone from AT&T Bell Labs in the 60ies…
Using video to communicate isn’t exactly a new idea…
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Immersion
Immersion
Immersion is a New, Disruptive Opportunity
New technologies that go beyond traditional
video conferencing or telepresence
Virtual meeting rooms
Virtual meeting rooms
•Naturalinteractions
interactions
Natural
Democratize the experience — ‘better than being there’ on any device
with standard equipment
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Immersion
Next Research Steps
Virtual Director
• Automatically capture & direct human
interaction
Camera Networks
• Multiple people in multiple rooms
PresenceScape
• Capture casual (corridor) communication
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M2M Use Case Smart Homes - Assisted Living for the Elderly
Allow elderly people to
stay at home longer
Empower
the elderly
Empower
the caregivers
SUPPORT
Remembering
Maintain Social Contact
Life-Style Monitoring
Enhanced Feeling of Safety
Casensa creation environment
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Casensa action cards
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Casensa board
Four pillars as foundation of M2M for Strategic Industries
1. Devices
Management
2. Connectivity
Orchestration
3. Provisioning
Billing
4. Application
Enablement
Connected Digital Home
M2M
Connected car
Typically involved in Smart Cities….
Smart Grid, smart metering
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Next Research Steps
Smart Environment
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• The habitat shapes accordingly to ad-hoc user
needs & requests
Abstraction Layer
• Expose sensor environments to 3rd party
developers
i
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Connecting non-connected Objects
• Semantic catalogue and augmentation of nonconnected objects to make them connected
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The Challenge of GreenTouchTM
Demonstrate technologies in 5 years
that will lead to a 1,000-fold reduction
in energy consumption
A forest the
size of the U.K.
Draw on expertise across the industry & around the world
Open invitation to the entire industry
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Energy Efficient Networks: the Industry Trend
(Watts/Mbps)
(Watts/Mbps
10,000
10,000
Industry Trend ~15%
Fixed
Data
1,000
1,000
Near-term
Roadmap
Industry Trend ~ 20%
100
10
1
100
Current
Potential
Near-term
Roadmap
10
Current
Potential
2008
2012
24%
Wireless
Data
30%
2016
2020
1
2008
2012
2016
Industry trend steadily flattening (Moor’s law )
Potential driven by (aggressive) new technologies in Bell Labs
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2020
Next Research Steps - Collaborate with all Members
www.greentouch.org
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Conclusion - Bell Labs is designing the Future of Communications, Today
1947
1947
The
Transistor
Cellular
Telephone
Technology
1963
Touch-Tone
Telephone
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1954
Solar Cells
1958
Laser
1962
Digital
Transmission
and Switching
1962
Communications
Satellites
1969
1979
1993
1999
2010
Unix
Operating
System and C
Language
Digital Signal
Processor
ADSL
SoftSwitch
Immersive
Comm
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