Press Releases
31 August 2007
Open IPTV Forum participate at IBC in Amsterdam 7-11 September
Open IPTV Forum will be present at IBC with a speaker slot and a booth. The purpose is to promote the end to end specification for IPTV towards the TV industry and promote the vision that the industry is driving towards a next generation IPTV solution that blends communication and IPTV services.
- Business briefing speaker slot 16.00-16:30, Sunday 9th September, "Open IPTV Forum - Creating a Mass Market for the Next Generation IPTV" by Yunchao Hu from Ericsson, chairman of Open IPTV Forum steering group.
Summary of presentation: The pan-industry Open IPTV Forum is soon coming out with its first end to end specifications for IPTV which will be a key enabler for taking the next generation of IPTV into a mass market service. The presentation will give the reasons and purpose behind Open IPTV Forum and an overview what the specifications will contain
- Booth number 223 in IPTV Zone where members of Open IPTV Forum Steering Group will take discussions with potential new member companies and others who are interested in the upcoming IPTV end to end specification initiative.
19 July 2007
Industry Leaders Consortium progress Development of End-to-End Specification for IPTV and prepare for opening.
AT&T Inc.,
Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips,
Samsung, Nokia Siemens Network, Sony and Telecom Italia are progressing
a number of specifications to define interoperable end-to-end
solutions for delivery
of IPTV services. Basic requirements and feature
specifications are getting stable, architecture and
technology choices currently are in the focus of work.
Further the Forum is heading towards an open invitation
to join in fall this year.
19 March 2007
Industry Leaders Form Consortium to Develop End-to-End Specification for IPTV
AT&T Inc., Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens Networks, Sony, and Telecom Italia today announced the founding of the Open IPTV Forum, an industry consortium that will work to define an interoperable end-to-end specification for delivery of IPTV services.
The forum, which is fully open to participation across the communications and entertainment industries, will focus on development of open standards that could help to streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies, and help to maximize the benefits of IPTV for consumers, network operators, content providers, service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and infrastructure providers.
While standardization bodies are already addressing specific elements of IPTV, the pan-industry Open IPTV Forum will work to aggregate today�s diverse standards into a complete delivery solution, with the goal of accelerating the full standardization of IPTV-related technologies. The Open IPTV Forum plans to establish requirements and architecture specifications as well as protocol specifications later in 2007.
The evolving IPTV service has many advantages, including personalization, interactivity and on-demand access for all forms of digital content. Unique possibilities exist for integration of content and communication services offered across mobile handsets and home devices. By ensuring the interoperability between consumer equipment and services compliant to the Open IPTV Forum�s specification, the end users can easily access their choice of contents and services among multiple service providers.
With this scope in mind, the Open IPTV Forum will work on the basis of suitable open-standards technologies, and will also address key technology elements such as content protection, necessary interfaces that allow IPTV services to be delivered over both managed network environment and the public Internet, and adequate measures to ensure interoperability between such services and retail consumer devices. Candidates include, but are not limited to: IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).
Initially the Forum will consist of the founding member companies, but will be open for other companies at a later date.