Digital Day: Mobile Moves On "LTE 4G – Nuevos servicios, nuevas oportunidades"IAB Chile
Presentación de Stefano Villanueva, CBT Head Nokia Siemens Networks Chile, y Dasio Camara, Solution Manager de Mobile Broadband Nokia Siemens Networks Chile.
Digital Day: Mobile Moves On "LTE 4G – Nuevos servicios, nuevas oportunidades"IAB Chile
Presentación de Stefano Villanueva, CBT Head Nokia Siemens Networks Chile, y Dasio Camara, Solution Manager de Mobile Broadband Nokia Siemens Networks Chile.
Begin your evolution with Ericsson’s new small cell solutions.
There is need for the multi-operator dots, multi-dot enclosure, and strand -mounted bracket. The complicated arrangements are made easier with Ericsson small cell solutions.
Licensed shared access: A report for the UK Spectrum Policy ForumtechUK
techUK, on behalf of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (SPF), commissioned this study on spectrum sharing and Licensed Shared Access (LSA) to make proposals for the most acceptable specification for LSA for the UK.
UK Spectrum Policy Forum Report: UK Spectrum Usage & Demand - First EditiontechUK
The UK Spectrum Policy Forum, the industry-led sounding board to Government and Ofcom, has launched the first in a series of reports on UK Spectrum Usage and Demand.
Based on research from independent experts Real Wireless and drawing on the inputs of a panel of contributors for each sector, this report includes views on the importance of spectrum as a national resource from the space, utilities, business radio, meteorology and mobile industries.
The report can be downloaded from here: https://www.techuk.org/insights/reports/item/3773-uk-spectrum-usage-demand-first-edition
With all the potential that it holds, there is little doubt that 5G will be a game changer. Nevertheless, the business case for mobile operators remains difficult: huge spectrum and infrastructure capital investments are required and compelling economic models for monetisation are yet to be fully developed
In the past, we’ve seen a regular 10 year technology refresh with 2G, 3G and 4G each being added incrementally. Some believe that 5G will follow in the same cycle, although at the moment it remains vague and unpredictable. Others point out that the benefits of each new generation – mainly increasing spectral efficiency and releasing new spectrum – are reaching their full potential. This has been a key argument for small cell deployment, which increases capacity through frequency reuse without the need for additional spectrum or spectral efficiencies.
Mavenir: OpenRAN: The Infrastructure Hump and 5G Network EconomicsMavenir
The TCO Benefits of OpenRAN and how moving the core to the edge enables 5G low latency services and a profitable business plan. Presentation from 5G Business Summit 2019.
Dr David Soldani : Leading the disruptions | Zinnov Confluence '16 MunichZinnov
Keynote delivered by David Soldani, Global Head 5G Technology, Nokia
Introduction of the most important use cases, within the three agreed usage scenarios, and spotlights on different regions. Why Nokia is the right choice for carriers and enterprises, and disclose the fundamental enabling technologies towards a new digital revolution. The talk concludes with an overview of global 5G plans and milestones, with special focus on the 3GPP standardization framework.
LoRaWAN and 3GPP technologies cover all Industrial IoT use casesErika Gelinard
we examine both Mobile IoT (NB-IoT, Cat-M1, Cat-1) and LoRaWAN, with the objective to demonstrate the complementary aspects of the two technologies. We show how operators tap into unlicensed IoT market space using LoRaWAN and complement it with licensed Mobile IoT.
Presented by Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect - Chief Architect’s Office, TSO, BT at IET "Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision to Reality" seminar on 25th Jan 2017
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Begin your evolution with Ericsson’s new small cell solutions.
There is need for the multi-operator dots, multi-dot enclosure, and strand -mounted bracket. The complicated arrangements are made easier with Ericsson small cell solutions.
Licensed shared access: A report for the UK Spectrum Policy ForumtechUK
techUK, on behalf of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (SPF), commissioned this study on spectrum sharing and Licensed Shared Access (LSA) to make proposals for the most acceptable specification for LSA for the UK.
UK Spectrum Policy Forum Report: UK Spectrum Usage & Demand - First EditiontechUK
The UK Spectrum Policy Forum, the industry-led sounding board to Government and Ofcom, has launched the first in a series of reports on UK Spectrum Usage and Demand.
Based on research from independent experts Real Wireless and drawing on the inputs of a panel of contributors for each sector, this report includes views on the importance of spectrum as a national resource from the space, utilities, business radio, meteorology and mobile industries.
The report can be downloaded from here: https://www.techuk.org/insights/reports/item/3773-uk-spectrum-usage-demand-first-edition
With all the potential that it holds, there is little doubt that 5G will be a game changer. Nevertheless, the business case for mobile operators remains difficult: huge spectrum and infrastructure capital investments are required and compelling economic models for monetisation are yet to be fully developed
In the past, we’ve seen a regular 10 year technology refresh with 2G, 3G and 4G each being added incrementally. Some believe that 5G will follow in the same cycle, although at the moment it remains vague and unpredictable. Others point out that the benefits of each new generation – mainly increasing spectral efficiency and releasing new spectrum – are reaching their full potential. This has been a key argument for small cell deployment, which increases capacity through frequency reuse without the need for additional spectrum or spectral efficiencies.
Mavenir: OpenRAN: The Infrastructure Hump and 5G Network EconomicsMavenir
The TCO Benefits of OpenRAN and how moving the core to the edge enables 5G low latency services and a profitable business plan. Presentation from 5G Business Summit 2019.
Dr David Soldani : Leading the disruptions | Zinnov Confluence '16 MunichZinnov
Keynote delivered by David Soldani, Global Head 5G Technology, Nokia
Introduction of the most important use cases, within the three agreed usage scenarios, and spotlights on different regions. Why Nokia is the right choice for carriers and enterprises, and disclose the fundamental enabling technologies towards a new digital revolution. The talk concludes with an overview of global 5G plans and milestones, with special focus on the 3GPP standardization framework.
LoRaWAN and 3GPP technologies cover all Industrial IoT use casesErika Gelinard
we examine both Mobile IoT (NB-IoT, Cat-M1, Cat-1) and LoRaWAN, with the objective to demonstrate the complementary aspects of the two technologies. We show how operators tap into unlicensed IoT market space using LoRaWAN and complement it with licensed Mobile IoT.
Presented by Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect - Chief Architect’s Office, TSO, BT at IET "Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision to Reality" seminar on 25th Jan 2017
Shared with permission
Ultra-Reliable Networks – A Mobile Operator Perspective3G4G
Presented by Critical Communications World, Amsterdam – June 2nd 2016 by Mansoor Hanif, Director of Radio Access Networks, EE
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Andy sutton - Multi-RAT mobile backhaul for Het-Netshmatthews1
At our 5th Telecoms Evangelist meet up Andy Sutton of EE gave a fantastic presentation reviewing the latest trends and developments in mobile backhaul architecture, strategy and technology. Starting with a review of backhaul capacity, performance requirements and protocol architecture, the presentation initially focused on the macro cell layer before going on to discuss options for evolving towards a true multi-layered heterogeneous network. Take a look!
There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In other words, technology is now outgrowing the tech industry.
3GPP Standards for the Internet-of-ThingsEiko Seidel
Presenation by 3GPP RAN3 Chairman - Philippe Reininger - at the IoT Business & Technologies Congress (November 30, in Singapore). Main topics are eMTC, NB-IOT and EC-GSM-IoT as completed in 3GPP Release 13 and enhanced in Release 14
Had the pleasure to deliver the key note presentation at Informa's 3G, HSPA & LTE Optimization conference in Prague. Great event with many very important presentations.
In this update of his past presentations on Mobile Eating the World -- delivered most recently at The Guardian's Changing Media Summit -- a16z’s Benedict Evans takes us through how technology is universal through mobile. How mobile is not a subset of the internet anymore. And how mobile (and accompanying trends of cloud and AI) is also driving new productivity tools.
In fact, mobile -- which encompasses everything from drones to cars -- is everything.
Digital Berkshire, October 2012: Emerging Mobile TrendsBerkshire Digital
How 4G will change everything
As the new high speed 4G mobile networking standard is rolled out, we bring hugely experienced Digital Consultant, Steve Furminger from Live Streaming experts, Rightster and SANDS Digital Media to predict how this will combine with high performance mobile devices to produce new services and opportunities for the Summer of 2013.
Presented at October's Berkshire Digital meet at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell.
Agora ficou cada vez menos complicado fazer uma transmissão de vídeo em tempo real, equipamentos cada vez menores e de tecnologias super avançadas.
Com novas empresas no mercado e a demanda de conteúdo em crescimento com as smart TV.
Paulo Cristovão
This presentation gives a brief review of 4g world. it contains all the facilties of 4g, advantages and disadvantages. it could be related easily with the current internet facility and calling mode we use. It is very cheap and efficient mode of network being used nowadays by everyone among us.
Migration from 4G to 5G: A Complete synopsis guide on 4G to 5G migration.Utkarsh Jaiswal
Migration from 4G to 5G: A Complete synopsis guide on 4G to 5G migration. This guide has step by step process to build your synopsis on 4G to 5G migration
Gi-Fi or gigabit wireless refers to a wireless communication at a data rate of more than one billion bits (gigabit) per second.
By 2004 some trade press used the term "Gi-Fi" to refer to faster versions of the IEEE 802.11 standards marketed under the trademark Wi-Fi.[1]
In 2008 researchers at the University of Melbourne demonstrated a transceiver integrated on a single integrated circuit (chip) that operated at 60 GHz on the CMOS process.[2] It will allow wireless transfer of audio and video data at up to 5 gigabits per second, ten times the current maximum wireless transfer rate, at one-tenth the cost. Researchers chose the 57–64 GHz unlicensed frequency band since the millimetre-wave range of the spectrum allowed high component on-chip integration as well as the integration of very small high gain arrays. The available 7 GHz of spectrum results in very high data rates, up to 5 gigabits per second to users within an indoor environment, usually within a range of 10 metres.[2] Some press reports called this "GiFi".[3][4] It was developed by Melbourne University-based laboratories of NICTA (National ICT Australia Limited), Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence.[3]
In 2009, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance was formed. It used the term "WiGig" which avoided trademark confusion
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
2. Good afternoon, my name is Richard Pattison and I am deputy head of News Technology at
Sky News.
Sky News has been delivering 24 hour news, constantly, for 25 years now but started from
fairly humble beginnings - a studio in a small industrial park in Osterley and 2 London-based
satellite trucks that delivered all of our live content outside of the studio. Today we are HD,
have 3 London studios, 24 sat trucks of one kind or another, 4 UK bureaus and 8 international
bureau.
I’ve worked at Sky for nearly 7 years, starting in what was then a fledgling IP news operation
centre. I now lead a technology team with a very varied and interesting remit; everything from
fixing Kay Burley’s iPad to connecting the Sky Olympic studio, situated on top of the Westfield
shopping centre, to diverse network circuits and delivering 15 or so paths of HD video and a
number of IP-based services. But generally speaking News Technology is responsible for
delivering video over IP, as distinct from the more traditional video over satellite.
We make extensive use of fixed network circuits - all our bureaus, our studio in the Gherkin
and 15 or so plug-in points - Downing Street, Buckingham Palace etc are entirely IP-based.
And as you can see, TV is no where near as glamours as you might think… Baseband video
is encoded at source and sent across an IP network to be decoded back at base and put on
air. These circuits are more reliable and lower latency that satellite links and much cheaper
that the traditional facilities lines that we used to rent from the likes of BT.
However, news has a nasty habit of not happening in or around our convenient pre-installed
circuits, at which point they are of little use. So as late as 15 months ago the satellite truck
was still very much the king of news gathering. As long as the truck can see the bird, which
often comes down to some imaginative parking, it’s a very tried and tested method of
delivering quality video back to the studio. And this has largely been the status quo for the last
3. 24 years or so. The only slight problem is, they can cost up to £1/2million to build and £30K a
year to run.
However, in late 2008, we took deliver of a box from an Israeli company called LiveU, which
looked a bit like this:
4. It’s basically a Windows PC, in a backpack, that runs a software video encoder. Up to that
point, its nothing to write home about, however what it also did was take the connectivity from
up to 7 3G data SIMs, on different cellular networks, and bond them together to give the video
encoder the most possible bandwidth across which to transmit. This was the start of
something different in the world of satellite news gathering.
It has to be said that we labored long and hard with these boxes. The available bandwidth
was often unreliable, which meant so was the video quality; so initially they were treated as a
novelty item and only used in situations where there simply were no other live options - that
way if the device failed, we hadn’t really lost anything. The problem was that these ‘last man
standing’ options tended to be in large crowds, where 3G quickly dried up or moving vehicles
- buses or trains being a particularly popular option; And as you can imagine putting a piece
of equipment that relies on good cellular connectivity in a fast moving metal tube is a
challenging use-case - I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to browse the internet on your phone
or laptop whilst traveling on the main line between Kings Cross and Newcastle but it’s not
great so you can imagine trying to stream video via a device that itself is moving between
mobile cells was usually problematic. So it was a bit of a vicious circle.
5. Here’s a sample of live from 2012, which is actually not that bad, all things considered, but
you can see that the video quality is not great.
http://youtu.be/XOxyr2pP6bI
In the spring of 2012 we managed to secure a couple of SIMs on to the O2 4G test network in
central London.
It wasn’t ideal for our purposes as we couldn’t really test anything without traipsing into town
and coverage was patchy. I believe there was a cafe on Baker Street that had fantastic
6. coverage but when we tried to stream video from various places in Soho the results were
pretty disappointing.
However, in late 2012, the EE 4G network went live and we tried again. This time the results
were amazing. What I’m going to show you next is a couple of clips from a drive we took in
January of 2013.
We cobbled together a wireless ethernet port, using a single EE 4G SIM, a USB dongle and a
mobile router. We plugged a standard IP encoder, no clever stuff like variable bit rate, into
our wireless ethernet port, connected a camera to the iP encoder, stuck it in a transit van and
drove through central London, streaming live HD video back to the studio through out.
This is sort of sums up how we felt as we watched the live video:
http://youtu.be/QXnv3TopmzI
This particular bit of the video was quite exciting to us, our expectations were fairly poor after
our earlier O2 experience, but as we watched our experiment drive straight through the Hyde
Park Corner underpass, it was clear that we had something a bit more robust to utilize now.
http://youtu.be/NvErYrtnQbU
Infuriatingly, our next problem was getting ahold of the goods. EE sales advisors seemed
determined not to sell us a data plan any bigger than 20GB. Based on the upload speeds we
were experiencing, 20GB might only equate to 5 or 6 hours of live video per month.
7. We tried tweeting @EE but without much success.
In the end my colleague emailed EE’s CEO, Olaf Swantee.
8. We got a reply later that day and before the end of the week Daniel Upson, from EE’s
Lighthouse team had been to visit us at our studio to discuss our requirements. Probably not
a bad bit of business as Daniel went on to secure BSkyB’s corporate mobile contract earlier
this year.
And not long after that we had half a TB of 4G data ready to go!
Around the same time, early 2013, we were also testing the next generation in cellular
bonding units, the DMNG Pro 180, manufactured by a French company called Aviwest.
9. At a cost of £12K it has 8 cellular modems built in, 4 of which are 4G. It can encode video at
6Mbps, with overhead, that equates to about 3.5GB of data per hour of live video. It proved
very successful in Beijing, where Mark Stone and Andy Portch from our Beijing bureau had
used it with only 3G SIMs, giving them live capability that we’d never had outside of the
bureau itself.
I’d like to play you a few clips from a video Mark and Andy filmed for us last year as part of a
successful bid to raise some Capex to spend on new toys.
http://youtu.be/L1Q031-lZp0
Having seen how well the Aviwest had worked in Beijing on only 3G, we couldn’t wait to get
some Aviwest units in the UK to use with the new EE 4G network. And by February 2013 we
had taken delivery of our 2 UK units. The first real test was Margret Thatcher’s funeral, where
we delivered a pool feed, i.e. a video feed that was shared between ITN, BBC and Sky, from
outside mansion house, where the wake was being held. It seemed slightly ironic that the
camera on the left was streaming live HD video and the camera on the right was recording to
tape, which was later picked up by a motor bike courier to take back to the ITN studio.
With 2 EE 4G SIMs on board, the Aviwest streamed stable live HD video for 3 hours and
somewhat annoyingly, the BBC did the first live two way, via the Aviwest.
10. The Aviwest has gone on to prove extremely effective, we now have 11 units spread around
the world, in the UK, Beijing, South Africa and Rio. Now loaded with 4G connectivity from EE,
O2, Vodafone and 3 in the UK, these units are seriously effective bits of kit, capable of
delivering over 60Mbps of real upload speeds. A good example of how far these devices
have come and how effective LTE networks are proving, is Southwark Crown Court.
Surrounded by tall buildings and with very restricted parking, it can be very difficult to position
a satellite truck somewhere it can hit the bird, and we don’t have an existing IP wall box at the
location. But, as the Operation Yewtree hearings proceed, it’s the location for some of our
biggest stories this year and we have been using an Aviwest and bonded 4G to deliver live
11. video from Southwark.
You’ll notice in this clip of Max Clifford entering the court that the media presence is huge -
other bonded cellular units, snappers uploading photos etc. In the past this kind of media
scrum would have killed a bonded 3G unit stone dead, but you can see from the quality of the
pictures that the LTE networks are holding up well.
http://youtu.be/5Dt4JZMJjgA
Co-incidentally, we now have 24 cellular bonding devices, exactly the same number as we
have sat trucks.
Another significant development in news gathering that has become a practical reality with the
arrival of LTE bandwidth is the use of smartphones and apps to deliver quality live video. The
Dejero Live+ app can be live on air in around 30 seconds, bond available cellular and WiFi
connectivity, deliver excellent quality live video (for a phone) as well as studio comms to the
user in the field.
We currently have 200 licensed Dejero apps distributed amongst our news gathering staff and
it allows them, with little more equipment than an iPhone and a pair of headphones, to report
live on any situation they happen to come across.
Some of our reporters have taken it upon themselves to develop their own little kits to make
the iPhone an even more viable option for news gathering. This is reporter, Harriet Hadfields
iPhone rig.
12. The following are a couple of examples from one of our main exponents of mobile journalism,
Nick Martin. Both achieved with just an iPhone and an app.
http://youtu.be/B9ao1wCYeJs
http://youtu.be/onJAT5d3x4s
On Sunday night, as part of our Euro Election programming we took mobile journalism to the
next level and delivered 11 simultaneous live feeds, using iPhones and iPads, from the 11
election counts around the country, achieving a breadth of live coverage that we would not
have been possible without LTE, or spending a significant amount of money on deploying
multiple sat trucks.
http://youtu.be/nozya02_xXQ
It’s beyond doubt that the LTE networks available in the UK, and other countries, today have
far superior real live throughput to their 3G predecessors; and it is my understanding that the
backhaul behind these networks is also significantly improved. But will the impact of Moore’s
Law on available technology, i.e. it becomes twice as capable every 2 years, and the advent
of 4K video, which requires 4 times the data rate of plain old HD video, will these LTE
networks be able to continue deliver the bandwidth to which we are starting to rely on, or will
they too start to become congested?
Here’s some shots of the media scrum outside St Mary’s hospital the day Prince George was
born. If, in 2 years time, all these media outlets are broadcasting HD video, uploading
photographs and remotely connecting to studio systems will the existing LTE infrastructure be
able to cope?
http://youtu.be/rbx67hD0qxU
13. We’ve had little evidence to demonstrate that this is likely to be an immediate issue but we
are pursuing the possibility of using Quality of Service capabilities within LTE networks to
prioritize our video traffic over more general public traffic. Obviously there will be a cost
associated with this but given the cost effectiveness of LTE data, compared to satellite
airtime, this is unlikely to be a significant factor.
Thank you, that is the end of my presentation.