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IN PICTURES: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs public lecture at UTS, Sydney

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The brains behind the global communications vendor's research arm journeyed to Australia to showcase the technology innovations from Bell Labs.

  • Bell Labs chief scientist, Alice White.

  • Bell Labs residential applications research director, Jan Bouwen, talks about immersive video collaboration. He noted current unified communications technology usually does little to provide truly immersive communication experiences.

  • New technologies will need to be developed to accommodate for such a surge in data traffic.

    Sizer and his research team invented the lightRadio cube, a pint-sized mobile cell site.

  • White gave a run down of what Bell Labs has achieved throughout its long history.

    The organisation has won seven Nobel Prizes and has 27,000 active patents.

  • Bell Labs head of wireless research, Tod Sizer, informed the crowd about the exponential growth of smartphones and, in turn, mobile wireless data traffic, which is expected to increase by 30 times the next 3-4 years.

  • The lightRadio product family.

  • Bell Labs residential applications research director, Jan Bouwen, talks about immersive video collaboration. He noted current unified communications technology usually does little to provide truly immersive communication experiences.

  • New technologies will need to be developed to accommodate for such a surge in data traffic.

    Sizer and his research team invented the lightRadio cube, a pint-sized mobile cell site. This would make it easier to address community concerns about installing mobile towers which are an eyesore.

  • Bell Labs was originally formed in 1925 as Bell Telephone Laboratories. Since its inception, the research and development organisations has been at the forefront of communications innovations.

    Alcatel-Lucent currently holds Bell Labs thanks to the Alcatel and Lucent Technologies merger in 2006.

    Alice White (pictured) is currently the chief scientist at Bell Labs.

    Alcatel-Lucent collaborated with the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney to hold this public lecture.

  • The lightRadio cube on display. The technology will be tested at a baseball stadium in the US very soon.

  • Bell Labs computer networking researcher, Moritz Steiner, talks about how to improve on the current form of cloud computing.

  • Bouwen showed various different methods Bell Labs has tested to create a more immersive communications experience though they are limited by a number of factors including broadband connection speeds.

  • Way the lightRadio works. It can operate as an array.

  • The lightRadio cube on display. The technology will be tested at a baseball stadium in the US very soon.

  • The objective is to make cloud computing even more efficient and reliable. Telcos have a role to play in this, according to Steiner.

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