 that. So I'm going to go ahead and bring out an SVP from Comcast, Mark Meale. Thanks, John. Thanks. Well good morning everybody. Let's get our slide up here. I am Mark Meale from Comcast. It's great to be here. Let me just tell you a little bit about Comcast since we have a very diverse international audience that may not be familiar to everyone. We are a 60 billion dollar media technology news and entertainment company. And we have two primary businesses, Comcast Cable, which most people in the US I suspect are fairly familiar with, and also NBCUniversal. The cable company is the primary provider, or is the largest provider in the US of video, internet, and telephone services. And we do that primarily under this brand called Xfinity. NBCUniversal operates 30 news and entertainment cable channels. They have two different broadcast channels with NBC and Telemundo, and have TV production, studio production groups, universal theme parks, and universal studios movie production group. So we have a lot of diverse businesses, and we started our investigation of OpenStack maybe a year or so ago. But let me tell you a little bit about where we were coming from when we started to look for some underlying infrastructure technology that could help us solve some problems. One thing that might not be obvious to you since you don't live in the world that I live in every day is developing software in our current widely deployed cable service is somewhat difficult. It's a very vertically integrated platform. It is something that we typically buy the set top box, some intermediate communication infrastructure and some servers, all from the same company. We have very little visibility into how that system works. We really can't get into the software. It takes us a long time to make changes on that platform. All of the intelligence is in the box that's sitting in your house for that service. There's very little that we can do outside of that box. And that box is pretty limited. So we decided that we needed to try to change the paradigm. And so we've been building for the last few years this platform called X1, which we're going to demonstrate for you today here live. And you'll see that this, you won't be able to see because we don't want our customers to be able to see, but I'll tell you that this platform, all of the communication that we're sending back and forth from our set top box to our network is going through stuff that's running on top of our OpenStack production cloud. So this is a real world, thank you. This is our real world next generation guide experience going to be demonstrated for you live. And maybe I can get Jonathan to come out here and maybe he's willing to help do the demonstration. We'll just pull out our little set top box here, hopefully without breaking our remote. There we go. Would you like the remote? Sure. You're going to let me play with it? I will. So let me just set this up a little bit. So our plan here was to put, move most of the intelligence out of this set top box, which is hard for us to develop on and move it into the cloud. So that's a pretty standard model for everybody. We understand how that works. I just want to also brag a little bit that we were able to build most of the stuff in this cloud on other OpenStack software, sorry, on other open source software. So not only are we on OpenStack, but we're doing a lot of what you're about to see with open source software. This lets us build a much more personalized experience that puts content in front of users and makes our experience much more about content and getting you to the content that you want faster. All right, so let's cut to our demo. Our time is here in a little eight-year-old boy. I think we can probably take the audio down if you want. That way we can hear our little voice over. All right, so this is some live TV we're looking at right now. So one of the neat things we can do is just search by typing. So you've got a remote. Okay, so start typing for maybe Serenity or something. Serenity. Anybody? Serenity fans out there? Serenity of the movie? There we go. All right. And so here you can see it was easy to find. Jonathan just started typing and it does sends all that information. Every single keystroke goes into the cloud. We analyze the search that you're trying to conduct. We figure out whether you're searching for a channel, for a particular call sign, for a network. If you're searching for content like movies or maybe even actors. And then we try to propose some search results. And let me just mention, you see the Rotten Tomatoes ratings up here. We decided that consumers might be curious about what critics or other moviegoers thought about this movie that they're considering to purchase or watch. And so we integrated, we did a deal with Flickster and we integrated their Rotten Tomatoes service and it took us about three weeks to do that. In the old model where we have all the intelligence on the set top box, it's impossible to load all this data, first of all, into the limited memory footprint in the set top box. And here we can do it all in the cloud and just send the data back. I'm playing around. Feel free. Feel free. So here we are in the DVR. You cut the sound on the X1, totally. Thanks. Thanks. Okay, so this is the DVR here. This is all built in. You can see scheduled recordings. You can see the recordings that you've got. We preserved deleted recordings. Deadliest catch in Phineas and Ferb. That's quite a selection. I have four kids. Phineas and Ferb is big in my house. And Big Bang Theory. That's one of my favorites. So here we see, maybe hit the OK button there. Yeah, that's perfect. So you've decided that you want to look at Big Bang Theory. You go over to the right a little bit as you saw Jonathan do. And you can see that we've got six different seasons or episodes that are involved in six different seasons of Big Bang Theory available to you. And we tell you whether it's available on our on-demand service or pre-recorded on your DVR or if it's on broadcast television. And then you can set recordings and do everything else that you want to do directly from this interface. How about we show some apps? Sure, okay. It's back to the menu here. So you've got your obligatory weather and traffic apps. But sports I think is a good one. So one of the frustrations that I have when I'm trying to figure out where the baseball game is or the football game or the NCAA game or whatever, it's hard to remember sometimes which channel is actually carrying the game that you care about or whether maybe your team is playing today or what time the game is on. So as Jonathan just went through, you can see that we've got this application that comes up and helps you find the stuff that you care about. You can find your team. You can set up a recording. If the game is in session, unfortunately, we're here in the morning, but we have a couple of set-top boxes that are scattered around the conference. One, for example, is in the Cisco booth. If you go and play with it while a baseball game is on, you'll actually see the game in progress. And so we're integrating that real-time sports feed with the program guide information. And if you just walk into your house and you want to tune it up, you just select that game and it'll let you tune directly to the game or you can just get a quick update on the game by seeing what's on the app. This would be impossible for us to do on our own platform. What do you think? I think it's very cool. Cool. So first of all, that was very brave. This is live on OpenStack. Yeah, and I think this is probably the first time that we've had a set-top box demo up here. This is not the normal way that we think of OpenStack and interaction with OpenStack. So that's very cool. Thank you for bringing that here today. Glad to do it. Thanks a lot. So we had some great users there with Bloomberg. Best Buy, Comcast. And I really appreciate that they came and talked to us today. And I think that it does help illustrate how critical it is to have all of those parts of a platform ecosystem. I think it's also nice to see what are we building here and where is it going? Because you can sit there and write code. You can check it in. I've written a lot of code in my lifetime. And sometimes you wonder what's actually happening to this when I push it out. And this is where it's going. I mean, this is the software that you're building, software that we're designing here this week. It's going to all of these places and more. And that is really impressive. This is just a quick list of other organizations that are running OpenStack right now. It's really, really incredible. So I think what this community has done together is nothing short of amazing. And I love working on it every day. So thank you all for making OpenStack great. And I want to thank everyone who's involved in it. It is a massive effort from developers, from companies, from people who are supporting it, sponsoring it, working on it. And also, you might have known we had a little bit of a late start today. Sorry about that. We've obviously thrown in some challenging items today. I want to say a special thank you to the people who put this event together. We all create a lot of work for a bunch of people. And so thank you to FNTAC and thank you to the OpenStack Foundation team that has put this together. So I hope you have a great summit. There is one more thing that I wanted to mention here. I know there's a question about where we're going to go next. So last year we made a promise that we were going to be international sometime this year. And we are in the stages of finalizing the next OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November of 2013. And this is, I think, going to be a great opportunity for us to continue to spread OpenStack around the world. So that's all the time I'm going to take.