5G Innovation

Maria Cuevas June 2021

1 Applied Research and Adastral Park – home BT Labs and much more… Our world renowned innovation ecosystem and facilities mean that our research is open (152 companies on site), grounded in science (Universities) and purposeful (customer collaboration)

Maximise our use of key specialisms at Universities in the UK and globally, leveraging Government investment in UK science

BT Ireland IC 24x7 National Innovation Centre Link to location BT Security Operations Partners - Centre Academia Direct Innovation Cambridge University Co BT’s main security engagement UK Network University of : Specialist Lab presence between OR and Suffolk, UEA, Largest UK ICT benefitting from Operation Cambridge and cluster with 141 Fundamentals Applied Centre Lancaster University Research Research Essex companies Specialist Lab Operational Optimisation

Manchester Adastral Park Research HQ Birmingham University – Largest UK ICT Cluster Specialist Lab Long range radio 5G Lab, IoT Quantum Sensing Quantum Network Test Drone test High Potential Network Link propagation test Facility testbed / T&D facility Opportunity location facilities license Commercial- Rolled out at Birmingham grade quantum Equipment and Largest test and Adastral Park with Nearby RAF key distribution open space integration 11 companies Bentwaters University of Bristol link required facility in Europe testing Specialist Lab Cyber, Mobile, Optics, Quantum, Wireless, & AI Bristol London – UK’s 3rd largest ICT cluster Patenting team – Co-located with legal team TV, laser and Openreach DC, network & RF & Acoustic Customer optical fibre Ultrafast lab data analytic anechoic Showcase labs test platform chambers and Hothouse Applied Research Strategic Universities Specialist Universities Technology Test and development of Average £0.5bn BT - MIT EBTIC BT IRC BT CRC the latest access annual bid wins Boston, USA Abu Dhabi, UAE Bangalore, India Beijing, China technologies BT Labs @ Adastral Park

3 Adastral Park

4,000 BT’s Global engineering HQ 2,500 BT people, 500 Openreach and 1,000 partners 128 Graduates and Apprentices this year

130+ UK Operations Centre Companies in our high tech cluster

Largest test & integration 60,000 facility in Europe Visitors a year, including 8,000 school visitors

A national centre for digital and 1,100 VIP customers, civil servants and policy makers hosted in our communications innovation customer centre

4 Investing in Research & Development

3rd Highest number of 2nd £2.5 patents filed with the In the fixed line European Patent telecoms sector over billion Office of UK-based past ten years Spent on R&D over companies the last five years

1,500 30+ Graduates and 103 5,000 Direct university Number of inventions Patents in our Apprentices recruited research relationships filed in 2018/19 by BT in 2018 portfolio

5 British Telecommunications plc 2019 Adastral Park Research Facilities

Laser and optical Long range radio Network and Data fibre labs propagation test facilities Analytic test platform

There are key assets at Adastral Park that are necessary for Research, and additional benefits from being co-located with BT’s technology assets such as Gemini Network Integration Facility, Adhara Operations Centre and Global Security team.

Acoustic Anechoic Network and Data Network Integration Chambers for antenna RF Anechoic Chambers for antenna characterisation Analytic test platform test Facility - Gemini characterisation Adastral Park Showcases

✓ Win bids ✓ Generate opportunities ✓ Test innovations with customers

Agile Bank

The Street

Connected Industry

Retail

Healthcare

Connected Home

Bids won Revenue opportunity 19/20 (YTD) - £539.4m 18/19 - £308.7m 17/18 - £387.5m 16/17 - £744.7m 18/19 - £159.2m 17/18 - £159.9m 16/17 - £228.9m 5G will enable new use cases 10 Gbps peak data rate 1 Gbps average data rate

1m connections /Km2 10 year battery 1msec latency Ultra high reliability/availability

8 5G Evolution New releases of technology will deliver new business outcomes

5G Release 15: 5G Release 16: 5G Release 17: Early 5G use cases driving demand for higher AR/VR and mixed reality, remote field Standalone private networks, new Network slicing, virtualisation, performance and lower latency: workers, remote healthcare, immersive lower latency industry use cases, dynamically configurable service • Connected Healthcare: Ambulances, training and education growth in edge and hybrid cloud levels, ultra-reliable low latency multi-disciplinary teams, remote patient monitoring • rd Growth in Connected Field Worker: Utilities, 3 party telco value • Remote Immersive Education: Universities, construction, utilities Service Differentiation • Smart Surveillance: Blue light, connected Growth officers, connected armed response, in value public sector • Connected Supply Chain: Logistics Scale and Monetisation Growth Ultra Reliable Dynamic Evolution of 5G coupled with growth in in value Low Latency Service Level Private Networks could create new Applications Configuration Edge / Cloud opportunities for Network Edge capability: 5G Private Networks Early use cases Compute • Industry 4.0 • Ports 5G • Airports (Hybrid) Scalable Private Mature Digital • Hospitals (Hybrid) Connected Field New Remote Smart Blue Network Slices Services Platform Supply Chain • Mines Healthcare Workers Devices Training Surveillance Light Customer Co-creation Creating value with new Differentiating service to and Mobilising Front Line Workers eco-system partners maximise customer value

Business outcomes for Enterprise / Global Customers Increased Operational Increased Cost Safer Revenue Productivity Efficiency margin reduction workplaces growth

99 5G private networks provide a dedicated, secure mobile network for critical network operations that need reliable mobile coverage across a wide area

A private network is a dedicated, secure mobile network for a specific site

1 2 3 Customer benefits Coverage & reliability Control Security

Shifts mobile into mission critical networking – linking mobile assets to cloud applications in ways that have not been possible previously - hugely transformational 10 A world of opportunity awaits, underpinned by evolving telecoms

Immersive communications and entertainment Productive connected agriculture Reliable remote health care

Improved safety and security Safer and autonomous transport Efficient energy distribution

Autonomous manufacturing Sustainable cities Automated logistics What do we need to focus on as a technical community?

Capacity Coverage Reliability Sustainability Security and trust

Smooth Cost effective Service differentiation Rapid service deployment investment profile Reliable ecosystem Virtualisation, Disaggregation and Open Innovation fueled by a diverse and architectures are key competitive supply chain

Virtualised, Disaggregated, Open Radio solutions

Converged 5G System – Service Based Architecture • Cloud-Native • Fully disaggregated • Open and interoperable • Convergence of fixed and mobile access

Virtualised, Disaggregated Broadband Network Gateways

13 New supply chain players will emerge based on open source & emerging integration models https://gonorthforge.com/virtual-and-disaggregated-broadband-network-gateway/ 5G Use Cases in BT Applied Research

Drone-based Volumetric video Continuous Urban Video analytics Video analytics real-time comms Scanner

✓ Real-time object detection ✓ People counting ✓ Holographic comms ✓ 3D urban mapping ✓ Drone-mounted camera ✓ Social distancing ✓ Mixed reality experiences ✓ Live on street parking info ✓ Safety, inspections ✓ Object detection ✓ Live Broadcasting ✓ Improved planning / safety

Volumetric video Augmented AI-Autonomous Industry 4.0 live experiences remote operations Drone Control

✓ Live Sports events ✓ Connected ambulance ✓ Emergency Response ✓ Remotely operated robots ✓ Remote learning ✓ Remote logistics ✓ Medical deliveries ✓ Synchronization capabilities ✓ Design and collaboration ✓ Remote crane operations ✓ Logistics, warehouse mgmt. ✓ Manufacturing, warehousing Thank you

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