Recent Innovations From BT Research
2011 - BT Researchers working in collaboration with University research teams in the UK, US, China and Australia examined and reported on, how communications technology is changing how people live their lives, at home and at work, young and old.
2006 - BT implemented the world's first fully automated 'spam buster' system to track down and tackle professional spammers and 'botnet'-infected customers on the BT broadband network.
2002 - Research and development teams designed and deployed a suite of new business systems allowing the launch of the UK's first commercial broadband internet access service.
1999 - BT announced that it had pushed commercial optical fibre transmission to 80Gbit/s. BT labs demonstrated the world's fastest regenerator - a photonic digital network component.
1995 - BT research designed and developed a Video on demand service, which was trialled in the local area, with 2,500 customers. It used asymmetric data on a subscriber's line (ADSL) over copper cables, with a decoder supplied by Apple. - article on trial
1987 - the world's first instantaneous translation of speech by computer was unveiled by BT's research laboratories.
1982 - Europe's first satellite transmission service was launched with Adastral Park's Satellite dishes beamed the television signals to the Orbital Test Satellite, run by Eutelsat, allowing Finnish and Norwegian viewers to receive the (English language) signals.
1979 - BT/PO launched Prestel, the world's first viewdata network.
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