Altice Labs was visited by a delegation from AICEP – International Association of Portuguese-Speaking Communications.

This visit, held on the 14th November 2017, was part of the Annual Meeting of Senior Officials of AICEP, which annually brings together Presidents, General Directors and other elements of Business Administrations and Associated Organizations, namely, postal and parcel operators and Electronic Communications and Telecommunications Operators, content operators (television) and communications regulators of the 9 countries and Portuguese-speaking Territory (Macau).

Focused on the theme “Internet of Things: challenges and opportunities”, this meeting had several presentations, each followed by a moment of moderated discussion by Ana Patrícia Monteiro, from the Technological Coordination and Innovation direction.

The delegation was received by the general director of Altice Labs, Alcino Lavrador, who gave a presentation on 5G & IoT, with particular emphasis on the definition, context and scenarios in 5G, some use case of IoT and the positioning of Altice Labs in this context.

There were also demonstrations of two 5G projects that Altice Labs is developing:

– Superfluidity that demonstrates advanced technological scenarios such as: creation of superfluid services, short instantiation and migration times, service portability and aggregate network in the core.

– City Dashboard, an operational management center that provides a holistic view of the city’s resources, allowing the visualization, monitoring, control and correlation of different urban management systems, such as public lighting or waste management, in order to optimize municipal processes through IoT technologies applied to Smart Cities, contributing to improve the quality of life of citizens.

The 45-member delegation visited the Altice Labs campus, its network systems laboratories  and  development, prototype and testing laboratories.

At Future Labs, the group saw demonstrations of some prototypes such as the Smart Mirror, the Ultra TV solution and the 5G latency demonstrator.