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IPTV is coming… More companies join the push to deploy Interactive Personalised TV – New specifications imminent
Efforts
to accelerate the deployment of IPTV by combining
the expertise of key telecom operators, consumer
electronics manufacturers and network infrastructure
providers in the Open IPTV Forum are gathering
further momentum, and the first release of the
specifications that will allow IPTV to develop into
a mass market service is close to completion.
At its meeting at the headquarters of Telefónica in
Madrid from 10-13 June, the Open IPTV Forum, the
pan-industry initiative that was established to
produce the end-to-end solution specification which
will open up access to the interactive and
personalised services offered by IPTV, significantly
expanded its membership. These companies join the
founding members – Ericsson, FT Group, Nokia Siemens
Networks, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and
Telecom Italia – and many other major IPTV industry
players from the communications and entertainment
industries (www.openiptvforum.org/members.html),
bringing to 37 the number of companies which are
working together in the Forum.
Motorola BeeTV Opera Software FastWeb Digital Fountain Intel ZyXEL Yun Chao Hu, Chairman of the Forum,
commented: Members of the Forum will be speaking at these events, and will be delighted to meet
potential new members to discuss the work of the Forum
and the future of IPTV. Interviews with the press can
also be arranged.
Access Company
Thomson
Swisscom
Intertrust Technologies Corporation
“These new members represent a wide range of interest
and broaden the input to the Forum’s activities both
technically and geographically; they reinforce the
Forum’s presence in the USA, with four new member
companies (Digital Fountain, Intel, InterTrust
Technology Corporation and Motorola) and establish the
Forum's presence in Taiwan (ZyXel).
“Work on the new specifications is progressing fast. The
Forum has already produced the first version of a
Service and Platform Requirements document and the first
architecture specification. We are now working round the
clock to meet our target of publishing Release 1 in
September this year. Release 1 will solve the problem of
fragmentation within the market by standardising an IPTV
framework, enabling a ‘plug and play’ experience for the
end-user and, by ensuring interoperability, will make
IPTV independent of the technology behind it.”
Over the coming months, the Forum will be exhibiting at
some of the world’s largest consumer entertainment
industry events:
