1. Innovation in the Access Network- Our evolving portfolio and ecosystem
Johnny McQuoid, MD Service Design,
Openreach

2. Innovation in the Access Network – our evolving portfolio and ecosystem Johnny McQuoid CIO Openreach th February 2013

3. Openreach - LLU, Ethernet and NGA
Openreach was formed in January 2006
To deliver underpinning infrastructure under Equivalence of Input (EOI) terms for all.
To stimulate competition in higher layer network services.
The result:
Non-BT LLU growth to >7m lines (from <1m in 2006) and Wholesale Line Rental at >7m.
Growth in Ethernet backhaul services enabling real network-based competition.
UK Broadband availability and competitiveness remains amongst the highest in the G8.
Now enabling Superfast Broadband for the UK.

4. We’re creating the UK’s superfast fibre access network
£2.5bn Investment
>13m premises passed
>35,000 Cabinets deployed
>1,300 Exchanges enabled
>25 million man hours invested
BDUK wins
Ambition to reach 90% UK by 2017
Multicast capability to support IPTV
1.5m premises passed by early summer 2010
>13m premises passed Now
15m premises passed by end FY 2012/13
2/3 of UK premises passed by spring 2014

5. Enabling Innovation in Openreach and Communications Provider Domains
Ethernet to enable Physical Media Independence separates concerns
Innovation above and below that layer
Innovation requires commercial incentives for all
Openreach – long term infrastructure case
Communications Providers – shorter term retail cases
Criticality of Scale and Pace in our Market Model
Many Communications providers need volume
Global experience suggests NGA take-up grows steadily and take-up is partial
FTTC Overlay model for now
GEA FTTC enables rapid deployment and speedy provision
VDSL2 performance improvements
ANFP changes to enable – up to 80Mb/s
GEA FTTP where cost case is compelling
New sites, MDU (a relatively small % in UK), low cost deployments
Future FTTP Fibre on Demand in FTTC areas
To enable high demand clusters and 300Mb/s service rates
Enabling real Innovation in Openreach and our CPs’ domains
Unlocking real value for customers and communities

6. ANFP 80 Mbit/s Bonding Vectoring
An enabling framework for Openreach and
industry innovation
SUBSET OF WDM
EXCHANGES
(OPENREACH HANDOVER POINT)
BROADCAST TV 8
WAY SPLIT
INTERNET
NEW FIBRE CABLE 4
WAY SPLIT
VoD
SERVER
Voice Sync options
5500
LOCAL
EXCHANGES
SSU
ASDH
FTTP
NEW FIBRE CABLE
Ethernet
ANFP 80 Mbit/s Bonding Vectoring
‘E’ SIDE COPPER
NEW & EXISTING
HOUSES
EXISTING HOUSES
Voice
Internet
FTTC
T.V.
FTTP
‘D’ SIDE COPPER
Voice
Huawei ONT
Internet
T.V.
Modem
Fibre on Demand
Voice
Internet
T.V.
Modem Termination

7. CPs are innovating now to meet consumer market demand for fibre and to drive an IPTV revolution

8. Future Innovation in the customer domain
HD streamed games – without a console
Interactive TV: a new TV experience
Home
Look Left Look Forward Look Right
Touch-screen telepresence – a window into your world
360 degree video streaming – with real-time end-user control
Virtual academy – removing the barriers to learning

9. A few examples of Openreach Innovation
Creation of the Ethernet Open Access model for NGA.
Creation of a new class of network platform
Development of the Equivalence Management Platform.
The UK telecoms industry’s B2B gateway
Launch of the 80/20 Higher Frequency Bandplan.
Increasing the value of FTTC to us and our customers
Fibre.
A long history of innovation and industrialisation over 3 decades
Copper Test and Diagnostics.
Hand-held and network tools to speed fault location and repair
Conducrete.
One of many innovations to enable one of the fastest global NGA deployments

10. Openreach and Adastral Park
Adastral Park supports our innovation activities with our customers, stakeholders and suppliers.
Innovation is key for us, but it needs to be Invention plus Implementation.
Much is done with our 20,000+ engineers in the field and to support them.
A lot of the work is done here in Adastral.
The “4 Acre Site” is a field lab for many of the innovations critical to Openreach
Cables, Plant and Practices.
Integration of our NGA propositions – Active Equipment, Cables, Ducts and Poles, Systems, Processes and Procedures.
A place where Openreach, BT’s R&T people and suppliers all come together.
Our key equipment suppliers for NGA and Ethernet have people here – e.g Ciena, Huawei and ECI.
Some infrastructure vendors are also here – e.g. Prysmian.
Many of our early field trials are done locally, for example much of the fibre work was trialled down the road in Foxhall.