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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr () yahoo com>
Date: December 12, 2008 2:04:34 PM EST
To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Darn good question  !!   New global standard for  
fully networked home - Industry applauds major breakthrough with  
revolutionary ITU technology

will this be like the OSI protocol stack,
ITU efforts on email,
ATM to the desk top
and other ITU efforts to push standards beyond carriers networks into  
the domain of LANS
and/or up the protocol into the domain of applications

net result is lots of paper and standards meetings and very little  
product in the market

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: [IP] Darn good question !! New global standard for fully  
networked home - Industry applauds major breakthrough with  
revolutionary ITU technology
To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 11:47 AM

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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
>
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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  
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>
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bringing
together the most influential representatives of government and the
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benefit of the global community, and in particular the developing world.
>
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aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite- 
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meteorology, from phone and fax services to TV broadcasting and next- 
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>
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