Darn good question !! New global standard for fully networked home - Industry applauds major breakthrough with revolutionary ITU technology

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dan Gillmor <dan () gillmor com>
Date: December 12, 2008 11:12:55 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Fwd: New global standard for fully networked home - Industry  
applauds major breakthrough with revolutionary ITU technology

My question: Has anyone agreed to this apart from the ITU and the  
group formed to push this standard?

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> From: "ITU Press Office" <pressinfo.mailb () itu int>
> Date: December 12, 1908 12:10:56 PM EDT
> To: "Mr Dan Gillmor" <dan () gillmor com>
> Subject: New global standard for fully networked home - Industry  
> applauds major breakthrough with revolutionary ITU technology
>
> ORIGINAL: English
>
> New global standard for fully networked home
> Industry applauds major breakthrough with revolutionary ITU technology
>
> Geneva, 12 December 2008 - The first global standard offering an in- 
> home, high-speed network capable of delivering room-to-room HDTV has  
> been agreed by ITU.
>
> The standard, published under the G.hn banner, promises high quality  
> multimedia over power, coaxial, phone and other home network wiring.  
> It will give up to 20 times the throughput of existing wireless  
> technologies and three times that of existing wired technologies.
>
> The specifications will be used by chip manufacturers to build  
> transceivers that can be incorporated into set-top boxes,  
> residential gateways, home computers, home audio systems, DVD  
> players, TVs or any other device that might be connected to a  
> network now or in the future. Experts say that silicon companies  
> will immediately start incorporating the specifications into  
> transceivers, implying that G.hn-compliant products could be on the  
> market as early as 2010.
>
> Joyce Putscher, Principal Analyst at market research firm In-Stat,  
> said, "Service operators have been looking for an international  
> standard that encompasses multiple existing-wire mediums for video  
> distribution. G.hn meets that requirement and it seems clear that  
> with significant industry backing from service providers,  
> semiconductor and equipment vendors, and the fast rate at which the  
> process is moving to achieve a standard, we will see first equipment  
> by 2010."
>
> "There's a clear market need for a unified networking approach,"  
> said Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication  
> Standardization Bureau. "With G.hn, every wire in every home around  
> the world can become part of a home entertainment network. This will  
> enable seamless communication between computers, HDTVs and  
> telephones over existing wires. I expect that this exciting new  
> technology will also foster innovations such as energy efficient  
> smart appliances, home automation and telemedicine devices."
>
> Work on G.hn was started at the instigation of service providers  
> looking to extend broadband and video services in the home. As well  
> as its offer of greater speed, it may be bundled as complementary to  
> Wi-Fi where G.hn offers greater coverage, extending, for example, to  
> areas of a house where Wi-Fi does not reach.
>
> The standard has achieved remarkable industry backing even before  
> its publication. An industry group - the HomeGrid Forum (see www.homegridforum.org/home) 
>  - has been formed specifically to back G.hn. The goal of HomeGrid  
> Forum is to market G.hn worldwide and to create a compliance and  
> interoperability programme to ensure that products based on the  
> standard will operate in any home around the world.
>
> Other industry analysts backing the standard include Michael Wolf,  
> Research Director at ABI Research. "If G.hn sees integration into  
> carrier devices by 2010, we expect that some 42 million G.hn- 
> compliant nodes will ship in 2013 in devices such as set-top boxes,  
> residential gateways and other service provider CPE hardware," Wolf  
> said.
>
> "A single, unified technology for multimedia networks over power  
> lines, coaxial cable, and phone lines has the potential to enable  
> simple, easy-to-use networking devices in the home," said Kurt  
> Scherf, analyst with market analyst firm Parks Associates. "We  
> believe ITU's work is an important step towards eliminating  
> fragmentation in the industry and in achieving the vision of a  
> networked home."
>
> Recommendation ITU-T G.9960 focuses on the physical or PHY layer,  
> giving the data bit rate and quality of service necessary for triple- 
> play residential services as well as business-type services  
> delivered over xDSL, PON, or other access technology. In step with  
> ITU guidelines on new standards development, several power saving  
> modes have been incorporated. Ongoing work is focused on the media  
> access control (MAC) layer.
>
> For further information, please contact:
>
> Sanjay Acharya
> Chief, Media Relations and Public Information
> ITU
> Tel: +41 22 730 5046
> Mobile: +41 79 249 4861
> E-mail: pressinfo () itu int
>
> Toby Johnson
> Communications Officer
> ITU-T
> Tel: +41 22 730 5877
> Mobile: +41 79 249 4868
> E-mail: toby.johnson () itu int
>
> About ITU
>
> ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and  
> communication technology issues, and the global focal point for  
> governments and the private sector in developing networks and  
> services. For more than 140 years, ITU has coordinated the shared  
> global use of the radio spectrum, promoted international cooperation  
> in assigning satellite orbits, worked to improve telecommunication  
> infrastructure in the developing world, and established the  
> worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast  
> range of communications systems.
>
> ITU also organizes worldwide and regional exhibitions and forums  
> bringing together the most influential representatives of government  
> and the telecommunications industry to exchange ideas, knowledge and  
> technology for the benefit of the global community, and in  
> particular the developing world.
>
> From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies,  
> from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and  
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> broadcasting and next-generation networks, ITU is committed to  
> connecting the world.
>
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