IPTV Part 2 - The Groups, Forums and Statistics

[Rodolfo]

In April 2006, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) created a focus group on IPTV to coordinate and promote the development of global IPTV standards with the following agenda:

<ul><li>Define IPTV</li><li>Review and perform gap analysis of existing standards and ongoing works</li><li>Coordinate existing standardization activities</li><li>Harmonize the development of new standards</li><li>Encourage interoperability with existing systems where possible</li></ul>

Ericsson, Matsushita's Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Siemens AG, Sony, AT&T, Telecom Italia, and France Telecom, to work on a single IPTV standard, created an Open IPTV Forum.

The forum is open to other companies to join, supports IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for unified Internet service delivery, and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). The group was planning to...

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