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in the county of Suffolk. The Adastral Park site was first planned around 1968 as the Martlesham Heath Post Office Laboratories and after completion in 1971 it has grown to a facility which today has around 4,000 research and development people from both BT and some of its partner companies.
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in China. BT also leads the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre, a consortium of 22 Indian and UK industry and academic partners conducting research into current and next generation fixed and wireless communications.
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1999 – BT announced that it had pushed commercial optical fibre transmission to 80 Gbit/s. BT labs demonstrated the world's fastest regenerator – a photonic digital network component.
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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.
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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.
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in Suffolk. By late 1969 small teams of researchers were working at Martlesham. The first new research building was formally opened on 21 November 1975 by Queen
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Globally, BT has additional research labs in Beijing, Boston MA and Abu Dhabi. The focus of research at BT is Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
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1982 – Europe's first satellite transmission service was launched with Adastral Park's satellite dishes beaming television signals to the
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BT works closely with both academics and students in over 20 institutions globally and has strong partnerships with the
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1987 – the world's first instantaneous translation of speech by computer was unveiled by BT's research laboratories.
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service, which was trialled in the local area , with 2,500 customers. It used asymmetric data on a subscriber's line (
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By the turn of the twentieth century, the site had produced over 10,000 patents.
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BT's main research facility is located in the United Kingdom at
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Former government-owned body, now private research organisation
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Research in the company was first established in 1921 at the
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were the original residents of the site in Suffolk at
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https://www.bt.com/about/bt/research-and-development
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