 So our next speaker today is a seasoned telecom executive with over 20 years experience in mobile solution development and delivery. Jim's currently CEO of shoelace wireless and next gen mobile networking and security software company focused on intelligent edge based hybrid mobility solutions. To provide off device traffic control or on device traffic control, leveraging both licensed and unlicensed spectrum to ensure the best customer quality and experience, while simultaneously reducing operator networking costs and providing new monetization opportunities. And Jim will be joined today by Sasha Dutch from Deutsche telecom. Please join me in welcoming Jim mains and Sasha Dutch to our virtual stage. Thanks Phil, appreciate that. So what Sasha and I are going to do a go over some of the components of what we've been working on the past year with Shoste and the magma team and with Deutsche telecom on what we call this spectrum building blocks for augmented networking. We go ahead and go to the next slide. Good. Sasha you on. He was on a second ago. Sasha, if you check on you. Yeah, me. Yeah, now we hear you go ahead. That doesn't work. Okay, then without. Yeah, good morning also for me. Yeah. Here we see one of the industry challenges that we actually have. So the, as we move towards the next G and the next G and the next G and the next G and getting more and more capacity within our networks. I think the demand the customers having to that for for network capacity and speed in the networks is just rising more quickly as we could deliver. And yeah. One of the things that Sasha and I talk about is it's a vicious cycle so soon as it's almost like a freeway system as soon as the lane is built on a freeway everybody's all happy, you know, you're moving around going fast, and then gets congested. And what we see is the dynamic is that as the networks get faster. So the new device innovations come up that you know the larger screens or HR VR, which then gives interesting apps that tries more on the network demand and that was fine when we were going from, you know, 2G to 3G 3G to 4G. But as you go to 5G, we've got interesting dynamics we'll talk about. So the traditional way that operate mobile operators have been selling this and you saw this in the US with, you know, one of the highest spectrum options in terms of acquiring more spectrum, where they buy equipment, you know, increase the spectral efficiency of their, their equipment, but that's costs, you know, globally trillions or hundreds of billions of trillion dollars. It takes years to deploy takes years to adopt. You've got that vicious cycle upgrade cycle going on. And then, like as I mentioned, as you went from 3G to 4G, you know, that was a quantum elite, you know, a lot of users would, you know, go on and want to pay for that extra. But when you went to unlimited plans, it becomes more challenging to say, Well, how are you going to, you know, increase the ARPU or household share of revenue and how best to monetize it. So the challenge is, is that hey, the way we look at it is that a technology problem or business model problem. It's a little bit of both but what we're starting to look at is like, well, there's some smarter ways to do this or some ways that we can try to improve some of the dynamics over here in terms of innovations around augmenting existing network capacity and leveraging both license and unlicensed spectrum. Yeah. And what one, one thing is that we actually have done in the past is we mostly when we look at our networks, we are looking from an inside out perspective means we are looking into how can we increase our networks and how can we do more to get them more bandwidth or and what we actually not that and we monitor our network we find out informations about our network, but what we're actually not that good is is in finding out what what are the real customer demands that is that is there. And so I think that there was something that we identified within our work was that there is the need to change the angle that we look to the problem. And what we come up with was just looking from the other side and checking the connectivity experience of the customer is one thing that it's kind of because actually it's not it's not about just finding out how fast he is or something. It's also about understanding what other networks would have been around to maybe do kind of offload scenarios or something like that to enable the customer in that various moment was the very best connectivity that we can achieve. Either if it's mobile or if it's Wi-Fi or CBRS or private LTE or whatnot on connectivity will come up in the next years. I think it's it's crucial that we understand that we have to look at it from a different angle. And what we are seeing is that already by today, if you look there, there is 80% of the time cellular data is used. There is Wi-Fi networks available. So you could already today have a lot more offloading effects to to Wi-Fi. If you look to a common or to a normal day of a customer, you see that he's also spending most of the time on Wi-Fi. So if you're at home, I think most of you won't be in the won't be in the cellular network. You go to your home network using your Wi-Fi and then you commute go to work there. You're in the work Wi-Fi then you go to dinner or for lunch or something and then you work again and so on and so forth. Most of the time you are already offloading without really knowing it and we have to understand that the whole connectivity experience that we that we offer to our customers, not only the moments where we bring him to the cellular network, it's the whole thing that we provide him in this in this whole connectivity thing. And yeah, there is a lot of there is a lot of unlicensed spectrum around us and we just need to be more get more intelligent to harvest this capacity. And some other points that make is that I think there's like 30 million I was on a call earlier this week 30 million access points added every year. And one of the challenges is when operators what they tell me is when they went unlimited unlimited plans. A lot of times you know when people are metered they're always worried about going to plan and things like that. When you're on unlimited. Hey, since you have a problem with Wi-Fi and we've all had problems there might be a spotty part in our house or as we go from our everybody has the problem of going from your house to your car and you're trying to, you know, either turn on a mapping application and you're in a video call and it's like you turn off Wi-Fi. And that that was used to be able to be addressed in terms of turning on and off radio but once the user turns that radio off, it removes all future or opportunistic opportunities for an operator to leverage, you know this ubiquitous unlicensed spectrum. So one of the challenges that we're focusing on, you know, with the magma project and DT is how do you have the user have worry free connectivity and never have to turn worry about, you know, they're connected as long as they're always best connected and always best protective they're always safe on no matter what network they're going on. So we started to do is the key building blocks. So how do we bring about to be able to aggregate all this capacity. Well, first you need to converge core so obviously, you know, when shock came along and magma came along be pretty excited we're working on the tip project and tip Wi-Fi and we heard about this inside that we've been waiting for. So that was the core part. And then we need low cost access points, whether they're Wi-Fi or ran type of devices but you know Wi-Fi is so ubiquitous in there so working with the tip Wi-Fi group is is finding you're solving that problem there. And then intelligent steering on that client. So if you leave it up to the OS, you know, they're serving, you know, a certain need, and the carrier is not necessarily in control. So an intelligent agent that actually steers to traffic or aggregates to traffic however the business policy would work. And the key thing is no OS mods, no infrastructure additions, you know, essentially put on a device and then intelligently steer it. So then we had the problem was okay now. Once you have that capability, we need to know, we need to collect information about these networks so we can crowdsource it so we're not necessarily a single operator doesn't have the view of everything the user connects to so you might have an operator that your mobile cell provider, but you have a different fixed fixed wire line provider. And so when you're on that fixed wire line the mobile operator might not know anything about that vice versa the the ISP doesn't know anything about that. So we working with Sasha and his team and his GSMA buddies, we came up with concept actually he came up with this name I like that it was a standard data collection called open schema and he'll talk more about that. So the idea there is let's have a unified way of how we collect information both from the UE and the access point equipment. So it goes into a common repository which has numerous benefits we'll talk about it. Then then with this we need an easy way for capacity providers to join this type of virtual network so the Berkeley professor talked about some of that stuff so I'm interested in following up with her. So the idea here is let's make it easy to add capacity there's so much Wi Fi capacity or unlicensed capacity will even be more with private LTC BrS. So that's how do we harness that and leverage it. And then finally, going back to the unlimited type of aspects of that how to reward both the access providers to contribute their capacity and the users who basically can make a choice. And you know what, I'm going to, you know, just, I'm paying for unlimited so I'm just going to use unlimited. But that essentially was more of a self center point of view so how do we get the users to say hey if you can help make the spectrum user more optimized or we called eco mode mode almost like how power supply works, and then they have benefit for that so we're working on different schemes on that. Then you have huge amount of funds that are released up that the carrier can then invest in either differentiation, or adding capacity and underserved areas which is the whole goal so why spend, you know, the operators I talked about they're spending $10 billion in say a region and another one spent and at the end of the day there's no difference and they can't charge more so that's not going to help anything for anybody, especially if there's all this capacity. So we'll go into some details next. So here's the next so the first. So what we did is we put this in working with Shaw and looking Burke from carabina. Declan from a spire different groups went together, and we said hey look, you know, to get an operator to deploy this type of solution is takes a long time it takes I've been in the business too long to know how long things take with operators. So we find innovative ones and obviously we found Sasha and DT to help move things along. So we started out with this concept called a neutral host which I'll go into detail here and the components are basically the man, you know what we have done to date is, we have the magma building block for the core. We have low cost access point both Wi Fi and ran. We have an intelligent client. One of the key things here is we also not only is it trusted but we can have untrusted devices because we can crowdsource all that information and that's where the head nets of the schema comes into play that helps us with the steering and then on top of that we can add value added services and analytics security location based services so this is kind of the initial core of the system that we've been developing last year and and actually have deployed in the wild. So that Sasha can go into the details of open schema. Yeah, so actually, I worked in quite a while in DT on this on the topic of crowdsource data and what is always a big problem or what is, yeah, a thing that is not that often done is that we collect the data or collect all data in the same place and have a data lake for doing good connectivity decisions. And as we as I mentioned before this view from the outside to the inside is something that we are adding up here with this with this data collection so we are not only able to have the cells reporting back to magma and not only some access gateways or other devices that are physical network equipment. We also can have use use so the user equipment. We can get it giving us data directly from the user's connectivity experience to explain us what we didn't know because sometimes the reality on the device of the customer is is really different to things that we can assume it is in our in our networks. And so having a central place like the orchestrator in that point with the where we can have all our data in is a is a absolutely amazing thing to have to have a central place to do and can then add on top something like location analytics or having dashboards looking for radio optimization and seeing directly effects of what the clients doing and so on and so forth. You know one of the things just add a little bit here is when we talked to the magma team, we said hey, a way to get in. I don't want to say Trojan horse but way to get into the operators is, they're all starving for that data. You know, such I can talk about is you have to buy data from multiple different data providers that speed test uglas to tell us all these different people to try to get a holistic view of this, and that's timely and expensive and oftentimes you don't get the raw data. So essentially having the operator to have, you know, essentially magma as a component to collect the data and then magma as a component to manage the actual endpoints. And magma is an accelerator to get the adoption so that was the strategy that we worked on. And then we talked a little bit about this but one of the things I wanted to cover was the network scoring so one of the things additional to a standard way to collect the data. How do we come up with a standard way to score the quality of a network, kind of like a more score for a voice. And then with Sasha, there's a bunch of people will talk about the end but domo Sasha parallel wireless point go bunch of them on coming up with a QS metric, both from the access point device and the ue to know, you know, is this a good network to come on because as you you know as you move from one network to another us switches in that. So if you know beforehand, the quality of that network is not going to be good don't put a user on a bad network, which would then cost the user show off the radio. So, we're working on that project now that will be done in the quarter, but the key thing here is we contributed along with Sasha's tremendous amount of contribution with you know years and years development of the schema model, and on some reporting work that she's doing into the magma repository so we already have this in the GitHub we have our collection agent we open sourced our collection agent it has the SDK, it has the source. It has the spec, and even like a sample app type of thing so that's all and that's both for Android and iOS so that's available in the open schema, and we also set up a slack channel on the magic channel open schema so people who want to know who want to participate. One of the things that we're doing with working in Ireland, I'll talk about that too is incorporating open schema into apps, so we can accelerate the ability to collect that information I'll talk a little bit more about that. Actually, here it is. So this is now the, the, the live trial environments we took all that concepts that we were working on getting in in a lab getting everything on worked out and we moved it on into the wild real world setting. So working with Lurkin steam and carabiner, Declan in the spire. We essentially set up the magma gateway there in the cloud, and actually on Premto's we have both implemented implementation we have right now around 40 access points that will go to several hundred in subsequent phases. We have open rams in there, authentication both aka and for SIM and offload client and the data schema so four of our building blocks already set up and running in that environment, we actually involved some of the telecom infrastructure ecosystem in the plume, and the tip Wi-Fi when those devices are available those are actually in route to be deployed there. So this is exciting so this is deployed both in Dublin, so working did a great job of convincing the city of Dublin sligo, they realize it's like, you know, how are we going to help the village of divide, and also, can we bring new revenue opportunities so city as a neutral hosts, where RMS knows could, or MV knows could roam on to this environment, which is the phase two or three goals. Yeah, so our actual working items that we are actually looking into for this year is one that we believe is that we need to get easier ways to harvest that capacity. And we tried to build something together with with the guys of zero chain, and the other team members to build something like a global connectivity broker where we have smart contracts and to get this this Wi-Fi or CVRS or other networks in a roaming like mode where we can easily settle contracts between partners via blockchain. So I think we have heard about today about broker concept. I think it also has the word broker and it does some similarities, but it's more like filling mutual agreements between parties on on a blockchain base what we're doing here. And, yeah, this is an actually an exciting project where we're actually working together on. And I think the next one is Jim. Yeah, so the next piece is in addition to that broker remember I talked to you about you still have to motivate the end user so why should I, why should I help out the carrier to offload my traffic onto unlicensed spectrum when it's in vain where's my data dividend type of thing. So we're working on interesting concepts that we've got a really a lot of positive report in terms of, you know, simple things like we call bites for bites by TS or BITS, you know, or sustainability, you know, trade in areas, you know, based on your optimization you earn eco bites that, you know, the carrier will plant a tree in a rain forest so we're working with different things, eventually when you save money. And, and, you know, what I talked to operators if I save you 100 million a year you should have no problem putting $1020 million back so we can reward the users. So we're looking at that type of model which will free up cash for the operators to expand, free them up to differentiate on some value added to our service, encourage and motivate the unlicensed capacity providers to join the network and then have the ecosystem thrive so, you know, essentially, you know, one to try to build these six building blocks that I think are the core ones there might be more so by all means, you know, get on the sock channel there to give us more ideas. And you can see from the client point of view, the, the, all the things that come together that we talked in the following previous six steps. I mean, I mean, great participation. So, you know, again, thanks to obviously DT and Facebook because you know without them you need to have those large entities, you know, we're little startups and you know how to get these gorillas or elephants to move whatever. And then on the telephone infrastructure has been great. And as I talked about numerous other ones, Carabiner, Aspire, Zero Chain, Plume, Parallel, Freedom FI, Freedom FI has been great in terms of some, you know, it's nice to go because like we work in certain pieces and they say have you figured this part out on magma and they go yeah yeah so we had a call with them so thanks Boris. Net experience has been great, Boingo and Salona. Demos is actually doing some interesting stuff with what that's doing in terms of the QoS so this is just the beginning so the more we have collaborate the faster we can go. Yeah, and I think one thing that we, that everyone, every team needs to have is a kind of goal and a mission and actually one of our goals is get everyone for the bill, afford the bill, affordably connected. Yeah, it's important that we have a sustainable mobile internet future because and leveraging all kinds of available spectrum and doing it in a good and intelligent way for our customers. Yeah, and to close with the words of the Facebook connectivity to get more people online and the next millions there. And then there's in the slides that would be posted you can see some of the demos we had to show some of the use cases there. You can get more intel about the architecture and so on so. So Phil, I told you we catch up so hopefully that helped speed things along there. Thanks. Thanks. And that was that cross coordination between, you know, Germany and here so thank you so much for staying up a little bit longer there to do this so thanks. Thanks. Truly a global event today. Thank you gentlemen.