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Major standards organisations
cooperate to drive the development of Home Environment Services
PRNewswire via COMTEX
April 24, 2012
BARCELONA, Spain, - Identification of key areas to enable ubiquitous
service access from mobile and fixed devices. The Broadband Forum,
DECT Forum, HGI, Open IPTV Forum, Open Mobile Alliance and the Small
Cell Forum held a successful workshop to investigate shared issues
and opportunities to enhance support of services in the home. |
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Hosted by the Open Mobile Alliance, the Home Environment Services
workshop convened immediately preceding the GSMA Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, and identified shared focus areas in the
rapidly diversifying home environment- addressing the ever expanding
range of computing and connected devices in the home environment
ensuring devices in the home have quality of service regardless of
the access method, i.e. 3G, UMTS, LTE, DSL, Fibre, Cable, WiFi...offering
users ubiquitous access to converging services across devices in the
home as well as seamless handover from one device to another in
terms of service continuity strengthening and standardising wired
and wireless support of Device Management supporting Machine to
Machine (M2M) devices which are playing an increasingly important
role in the extended distribution of services, and need a common
management platform empowering users of devices in the home
environment to exploit other capabilities such as centralised
address books and access to rich multimedia content repositories.
Mark Cataldo, Chairman of the Board of the Open Mobile Alliance and
Workshop Chairman, greeted the success of the Workshop saying "The
Open Mobile Alliance is very pleased that our organisations have
come together to address this key technology area. By cooperating,
our organisations, OMA's service enablers and APIs will enrich the
support of multimedia services across the rapidly diversifying range
of devices."
Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum CEO adds "It is increasingly evident
that in today's rapidly developing market, not only is the remote
management of devices needed, but it's crucial for both fixed
devices and mobile devices. Co-operation between the various SDO's
and fora is both necessary and very welcome."
With the advancing introduction of M2M devices, they require remote
management and their distinctive functionalities provide exciting
opportunities to create new services. Andy Germano, the Small Cell
Forum Vice Chairman stated "The availability of service applications
and APIs in the handset and home access points is quickly enabling
the introducing of exciting services which build on recognising the
user's presence in the home." Oliver Maiwald, DECT Forum Board
member says "The home environment is becoming increasingly exciting,
with support of smart metering, home control units and gateways
facilitating an explosion in services."
Hans-Werner Bitzer, HGI Vice Chair stated "Together with our
partners, HGI is making enabling steps towards convergence by
providing a modular and manageable application platform and service
APIs for home connected services." Mohammed Dadas, representing the
Open IPTV Forum continued "With device discovery, content
distribution/transfer, and content protection, the home is creating
a mass market for IPTV services of the future."
The fora are now investigating how to further cooperate around these
shared interest areas, and look forward to continued development and
promotion of emerging services in the home environment.
For media information, please contact Account Manager Dana Corson on
+44 1636 812152, +44 7795 615466 or email
dana.corson@proactive-pr.com
About the Broadband Forum Broadband Forum, a non-profit industry
organization, is focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband
connections. Our work defines best practices for global networks,
enables service and content delivery, establishes technology
migration strategies, engineers critical device & service management
tools, and is key to redefining broadband. Our free technical
reports and white papers can be found at www.broadband-forum.org .
About the DECT Forum The DECT Forum is the international association
of the cordless home and enterprise communication industry. DECT,
DECT 6.0 and CAT-iq are worldwide-adopted technologies with high
relevance for wireless voice, broadband home and enterprise
communication.
The DECT and CAT-iq installed base in the consumer environment of
cordless telephony has now reached almost 500 million units
worldwide with the enterprise installed base estimated at a further
8.5 million handsets. More than 820 million DECT and CAT-iq devices
have now been sold worldwide, which continues to increase by over
100 million per annum (source:MZA)(source:2012).
The DECT Forum is located in Berne, Switzerland. Full members of the
DECT Forum are currently: Aastra, Ascom, Atlinks, AVM, Binatone,
CCT, Cetecom, Deutsche Telekom, Dialog Semiconductor, DSP Group,
Gigaset, GN Netcom, Lantiq, NEC, Nemko, Orange FT, Panasonic,
Philips, Plantronics, Polycom, RTX, Sagem, Samsung, SGW, Snom,
Swissvoice, Technicolor, Uniden, Vtech.
For more information please visit: www.dect.org
About the Home Gateway Initiative The HGI, founded in 2004 by nine
telecom operators, is shaping the next generation of internet and
voice services. Starting from use-cases and service needs, the HGI
sets requirements for Home Gateways, infrastructure devices, and the
home network. The HGI now has members from across the globe,
representing the entire spectrum of players in the broadband home
area. http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/
About the Open IPTV ForumThe Open IPTV Forum enables and accelerates
creation of a mass market for IPTV by defining and publishing
free-of-charge standards-based specifications for end-end IPTV
services of the future. Founding members Panasonic, Samsung,
Ericsson, Sony Corporation, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Philips
and Nokia Siemens Networks have since been joined by other leading
industry stakeholders including:
Bouygues Telecom, BBC, BT, Deutsch Telekom, KDDI, PCCW, Rogers,
SES-Astra, TeliaSonera, ANT Software, D-Link, Motorola, Sharp,
Vestel, Zyxel, Alcatel-Lucent, Intel, Huawei, HwaCom, Intel,
Technicolor, ZTE, BesTV, IRT, RAI, Dolby, DTS, Fraunhofer, Gemalto,
Intertrust Technologies, Mstar Semiconductor, MediaTek Inc, Opera
Software, Penki Kontinentai, Quative/Nagravision, Rovi, Sigma
Designs, Smartlabs, TNO, Testronics, Toshiba, Verimatrix.
Members of the Open IPTV Forum are working together on the
development of open specifications because they recognise that
combining the expertise of all parties involved will help to
streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies. Their
aim is to make the next generation of IPTV a mass-market service and
to maximise the benefits of IPTV and Connected TVs for consumers as
well as the industry.
As a collaborative industry body the OIPF has incorporated existing
standards wherever possible - OIPF standards are also being adopted
by complementary groups including HbbTV. A forthcoming device
certification and IOT program will see the OIPF logo appearing on
numerous services and devices, aiding consumers, service providers
and manufacturers as new technologies are delivered to retail, end
user living rooms and across multiple mobile screens.
Potential new members are welcomed across the communications and
entertainment industries, including network operators, content
providers, service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and
home and network infrastructure providers - email join@oipf.tv
About the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services
that work across all geographical boundaries, on any bearer network.
To date, OMA has published more than 100 enabler releases with
ongoing maintenance, revisions and new versions of its work. OMA's
specifications support the billions of new and existing fixed and
mobile terminals across a variety of mobile networks. Driven by the
global demand for mobile data services, the member companies of the
Open Mobile Alliance support the adoption of new and enhanced
information, communication and entertainment solutions. The Open
Mobile Alliance includes contributors from all key elements of the
wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and efficient
introduction of services and applications to the market.
For more information see http://www.openmobilealliance.org/
About the Small Cell Forum The Small Cell Forum (
www.smallcellforum.org ), formerly known as the Femto Forum,
supports the wide-scale adoption of small cells. Small cells are
low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum,
are operator-managed and feature edge-based intelligence. They
provide improved cellular coverage, capacity and applications for
homes and enterprises as well as metropolitan and rural public
spaces. They include technologies variously described as femtocells,
picocells, microcells and metrocells. The Forum has 137 members
including 63 operators representing more than 1.71 billion mobile
subscribers - 33% of the global total - as well as telecoms hardware
and software vendors, content providers and innovative start-ups. |
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