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HGI DISCUSSES
THE ROLE OF THE HOMEGATEWAY IN IPTV AT THIS YEAR'S IPTV
WORLD FORUM
The HGI was present at this year’s
IPTV World Forum conference and
exhibition held at Olympia in London.
The annual event is
solely dedicated to IPTV (Internet Protocol Television)
technology and provides a platform for industry leaders and
visionaries to discuss and formulate strategies on how to
deploy IPTV effectivelty and efficiently.
David Thorne, Chair of HGI Architecture TF, spoke at the
conference, presenting
‘Roles of the home
gateway in IPTV’.
As part of the presentation, David discussed details of the
HGI’s current and future work including interconnection,
Quality of Service (QoS), IPTV service support and remote
management.
The HGI is committed to helping the industry provide a more
robust and reliable IPTV service to consumers and this year
will see a particular focus on Quality of Service and
Quality of Experience, together with diagnostics for the
homegateway.
HGI
was also one of the official
endorsers for this specialised IPTV event.
HGI discusses the future of Voice Technology at DECT
World & CAT-iq 2009
The HGI was present at this years DECT World & CAT-iq
2009 conference in Amsterdam, the 13th annual event of its
kind, dedicated soley to the DECT (Digitally Enhanced
Cordless Telecommunications) technology and a platform to
discuss and formulate strategies on how to extend the reach
of DECT into new markets around the world.
Philippe Calvet, Head of Business Group for the HGI, spoke
at the conference, presenting The Home Gateway Initiative:
Examining the Potential for DECT & CAT-iq. As part of the
presentation, Philippe discussed details of the HGI’s
current work on integrating CAT-iq 2.0 technology into the
gateway environment - both inside the home gateway or
through an USB drive - together with recommendations for the
DECT industry based on contributions from HGI members.
Philippe
also
took part in the panel session Creating
Harmonisation Between DECT and DECT 6.0 in the US Market,
with Cable Labs, which resulted in both cable & telco
companies agreeing on the need to provide end-to-end
solutions, integrating CAT-iq with diagnostics.
The HGI is committed to DECT as a voice technology and is
continuing to research new generation services which will
require IP capable handsets.
The HGI was also one of the official
endorsers for this flagship event.
26 November 2008 - HGI GIVES FULL SUPPORT TO THE IPTV WORLD FORUM ASIA
The HGI will be showing its support at next week’s IPTV
World Forum Asia, through an endorsement agreement with the
organizers, Informa.
The bespoke
event will take place from the 4th to
the 5th of December at the International
Convention & Exhibition Centre in Singapore.
Being Asia’s leading IPTV event, the Group was eager to
show its support at what is Asia’s
premier IPTV event, on an occasion where the region’s
leading operators, content owners and broadcasters joined
forces to discuss this year’s growth in broadband
subscribers and deployment rates.
18 November 2008 – HGI DISCUSSES SET-TOP-BOX EVOLUTION AT TelcoTv 2008
Last week’s TelcoTv proved to be a great platform for the
HGI to share its views on the role of home gateways in
delivering IPTV to the North American market, a region in
which they are rapidly constantly striving to increasing
their presence.
Duncan Bees, the HGI’s CTO, took part in the panel
Set-Top Box Evolution:
Gateway to the Home? , outlining the role that home
gateways and set-top-boxes play in the IPTV arena and the
functionality issues in connecting the two.
Other participants on the high-profile panel included
Richard Brand Vice Chair from ATIS, Brian Feng Vice
President for the Key Account Business Unit at ZyXEL and
Mike Nawrocki Director of Standards at Verizon.
13 October 2008
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Home Gateway Initiative at Broadband World Forum Europe 2008
– Brussels.
The Broadband World Forum Europe proved to be a tremendous
success for the HGI.
Duncan Bees, the Groups’ CTO, took part in the panel
Service Assurance in the Home Network: the end-to-end
service view and its most critical component, where he
outlined the HGI specifications and service provider use
cases on delivering on service assurance via the Home
Gateway.
Corrado Rocca, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman
of the Marketing Committee for the Home Gateway Initiative,
and Senior Vice President for Product Marketing and
Development at Pirelli Broadband Solutions, also presented
during the event, taking part in the panel
Standardization Key to Broadband Success; his talk
highlighted the role of HGI within the broadband standards
landscape.
2 October 2008 -
HOME GATEWAY
INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES SoftAtHome AS NEW MEMBER
SoftatHome, a company created by Orange, Thomson and Sagem
Communications in February 2008, is the latest member to
join Home Gateway Initiative.
read more...
1 September 2008 – HGI MEMBER BASE
CONTINUES TO GROW -
The Home Gateway Initiative Group, after nearly four years,
boasts over 60 members.
read more...
SERVICE PROVIDERS AND
THE CONNECTED HOME SUMMIT, San Jose, 26 -27 August 2008 –
The HGI will be attending CABA’s Connected Home Council
Summit, hosted by Cisco Systems.
read more...
CONNECTIONS EUROPEAN
SUMMIT SERIES, Berlin, 29 August 2008 – The HGI will be
attending Park Associate’s event dedicated to the discussion
and analysis of new business models for emerging services,
applications and advanced digital technologies.
read more...
CONNECTIONS US, Santa Clara, June 2008 - The HGI will be
attending the premier digital living conference, hosted by
Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer
Electronics Association.
read more...
May 2008 – The
HGI makes three new documents available to the Broadband
arena: Parental control, Remote Access and Performance
Metrics. The HGI has recognized the need to have a
number of ‘guideline’ documents that give additional
background to the requirements specified by the HGI
Residential Profile. These documents are
designed to help service providers better understand
requirements when designing a Home Gateway in line with HGI
recommendations.
The documents are now available to download from the
website:
http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/publis/index.html
May 2008 - The HGI makes
three new documents available to the Broadband arena:
Parental control, Remote Access and Performance Metrics....read
more
May 2008. Renaming of the HGI document to the “Home Gateway Technical Requirements:
Residential Profile”.
The revised title change is now not only a precise
reflection of the document’s objectives, but also allows for
a more precise cross reference of it in other HGI documents.
http://www.homegateway.org/publis/HGI_V1.01_Residential.pdf
Brian Dolby, from
Casefile TV,
interviews Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology
Officer of the HGI, at the IPTV World Forum (14 March 2008)
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http://www.satellite-evolution.com/TV/hgi.html.
CONNECTIONS EUROPE, Nice,
May 2008 (event postponed) -The HGI will be attending the
inaugural European Summit ran by Parks Associates...read
more
Florence will be hosting the 13th HGI meeting from the 27th
to the 30th May.
http://www.homegateway.org/meetings/TP_13_Florence/13_index.html
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