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data by bandwidth, technology

data on contract awards for upcoming networks and new network deployments

targeted views by country, service provider, and infrastructure vendor

Five-year subscriptions forecasts by wireless technology

Contract awards and deployments by wireless technology

$3,495 U.S. Dollars

LTE RAN infrastructure CAPEX for macro base stations, re-purposed base stations, IP Packet Backhaul, and the Evolved Packet Core

Identify which cellular infrastructure vendor has won,

which operators are likely to deploy commercial LTE services first.

Infrastructure vendors covered include: Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, ZTE, Samsung, NEC, Cisco, Juniper, and Tellabs.

Macro Base Station Deployments by Technology and 23 Countries, 2010–2014

despite these gains, both OEMs have continued to be locked out of the lucrative Tier 1 LTE market in the United States with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson winning the Sprint Nextel tende

1 Region for 2010: Asia Pacific (167 contracts) #1 Country for 2010: India (37 contracts) #1 OEM for 2010: ZTE (159 contracts) #1 Mobile Operator for 2010: China Mobile (16 contracts)

Chinese OEMs were 78.9% in 2010.

wireless industry for 2010 reached 401,

business model is based on securing wholesale rather than retail customers

40,000 base stations that will cover 92 per cent of the US population by 2015.

eight-year contract w

Nokia Siemens Networks to build a high-speed mobile phone network in the US.

nfrastructure will combine an orthodox mobile network with a satellite-based phone and data service

6,000 base stations that Harbinger plans to use, along with the tower sites, backhaul and other gear associated with a terrestrial network will require billions of dollars.

Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.

available i

ideo quality

reliability of video delivery

dealing with massive peak loads

iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms

Actual Availability,

scaling to 1.5 million users,

15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month

Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding

next set of challenges was not so much technical as social

"As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker

platform capable

the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.

iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires

BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you

what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?

largely theoretical problem

iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site

in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.

clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.

wanted it to become a driver of demand, s

The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers

if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer

delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.

folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site

o integrate with Facebook and other social networks

make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,

addition of course to any external activity.

solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD

can then connect with Facebook, Twitter

expandable Favourites zone

designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,

rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch

ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.

So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,

Personalised iPlayer home page

default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.

iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.

Featured and Most Popular

For You and Friends:

iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice

connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph

Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised

My Categories

he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories

big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing

new Live Viewing page

fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page

something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site

sync your iPlayer with theirs

Shout button - a

shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now

Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!

adaptive bitrate system

ch automatically adjusts

Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio

New iPlayer Desktop

Series Downloads and live radio & TV.

favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline

Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you

new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV

BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..

I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work

AudioBoo, which was partly funded by Channel 4,

Stephen Fry's endorsement to his 450,000 followers on Twitter also helped

broadcaster and gadget enthusiast has recorded boos, complete with audience participation, while hosting TV show QI and at the recording of the new series of the Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. At one point Fry's first boo was being listened to 46 times a second

hen Chris Moyles starting using the service and playing Blackburn's boos on his Radio 1 breakfast show earlier this month that it began to go mainstream

Letting your listeners generate great audio will really transform your radio station

It's difficult to convey emotions in text, but it comes across immediately in the voice,

AudioBoo channels for the library's sound archive to help members of the public build up its research collection.