Strong authentication, 5G, business model … The IRT Bcom unveils its projects upstream of the MWC

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IRT Bcom, based in Brittany, presented its latest works and projects on Tuesday December 3, 2019, which it will exhibit at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC), to be held in Barcelona (Spain) from February 24 to 27, 2020 The specialist in telecoms and hypermedia – 3D sound and 4K image – wants to market them in stride.

ANTICIPATE DIRECTIVE DSP2

While the European DSP2 directive will come into effect in 2022, after a postponement due to the complexity for companies to comply, the IRT Bcom has developed a solution to facilitate the transition. Screen resolution, machine behavior, analysis of plugins installed … Based on technology Browser Fingerprinting and machine learning, its strong authentication system is based on the census of 200 characteristics specific to a device – computer, smartphone, tablet and same smart health connected TV. It can be deployed on servers locally or in remote mode.

The probability that an attacker could actually access a user account would be reduced to 1 in 500 million. "Just a code sent by SMS, as is the case today, is no longer sufficient for service providers, both in terms of security and efficiency: it is estimated that 10% of customers abandon their purchase because of a laborious procedure ", raises Gaëtan Le Guelvouit, head of the Confiance et Sécurité laboratory. A large-scale experiment is in deployment, the last step before the commercialization planned for mid-2020. The solution could hit the spot at the MWC, which payment companies are seeing more and more.

5G USAGE CASES STILL TO DEVELOP

In terms of 5G, bcom has many potential applications … but these are slow to come because the needs can only be expressed by the customer. Approached by Italian television during the IBC broadcast event, which was held in Amsterdam in September, the institute focused on slicing, a feature of the 5G to prioritize one stream over another, giving it more bandwidth resources. "For a football match, it is essential that an important action (as a goal, N.D.L.R.) be very clear. What we can easily do without plans for forums or interviews of players ", says Mathieu Lagrange, director of the Networks and Security laboratory.

Sports clubs or chains could thus equip the stadiums with network cores and appropriate antennas to refine the rendering for the viewer. This solution implies, however, that a company can be granted live frequencies. If this is possible today in Italy or in GermanyFor example, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Post and Press Distribution (Arcep) probably did not use this option in France … favoring traditional telecom operators, which are still essential. Which could prove to be harmful, the 5G addressing first to cases of professional use.

In the context of commercial contracts with operators, slicing could also lead to applications in the medical field – where health data will be prioritized over non-vital flows. If such solutions emerge regularly at bcom, most of the work done within it remains academic. Halfway between the world of research and that of the company, the latter is in constant search of use cases to Review its technologies. Its economic model seems, however, moving. And adaptations could lead to strategic changes.

A MODEL WELL TO SHARE

Like its seven counterparts, the bcom IRT is the result of a public-private partnership. Under the Future Investment Program (PIA), the original idea was that a privately funded euro would bring one euro out of the public purse. If the state thus largely finances its action, companies are also shareholders. Their interest: to have the primeur on the technologies developed internally. The Breton institute has, to date, a portfolio of 80 patent families … and a score is added every year. "There is no co-ownership, our technologies belong to us, and thanks to a privileged relationship with member companies, we can nevertheless agree on their transfer to their own activities and thus accelerate them", explains Bertrand Guilbaud, President and Chief Executive Officer.

For telecoms, Orange and TDF were not mistaken. The IRT is at the forefront of 5G, its expertise core network will be valuable while the deployment of infrastructure should start in the spring of 2020 at the end of the frequency allocation procedure by Arcep. Its board of directors also consists of engineering schools (IMT Atlantic and SupElec), equipment manufacturers (Nokia), manufacturers (Mitsubishi Electric) and several specialist companies – the latest, Naval Group, in the defense sector, joined the consortium in April.

The IRT bcom does not deny its ambition, ultimately, to gain autonomy vis-à-vis the state, to whom it is said "Grateful" to have accompanied him in his launch. Filigree, he aims to become "the armed arm of Orange in terms of network core". According to Bertrand Guilbaud, "come what may, (his) model will remain to imagine technologies with which (he) will be able to transform the Review by demonstrating it concretely ". After a significant increase in its workforce since 2012, with some 250 employees to date, the Breton institute seems to have reached its cruising speed. At least, based on such a business model. His sales team would not exceed ten employees. To take a real entrepreneurial flight, this is where the change will begin.

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