HGI releases updated
specification document to provide complete building blocks
for home gateway
Las
Vegas, NV – January 3, 2008 - The Home Gateway will be a key
component in connecting consumer electronic devices in the
home to a wide range of internet services, says the Home
Gateway Initiative (HGI), the industry body representing
actors in the broadband home arena.
Speaking on the eve of the HGI’s debut
attendance at CES, HGI CTO Paolo Pastorino stated,
“Networking opens up significant new revenue streams for
electronics manufacturers and is becoming a crucial element
in the design of consumer electronic devices.
“In this environment, where a growing number
of devices in the digital home are networked, and great
demand is placed on a combination of wireless and wired
connections, a Home Gateway designed in line with the
developed HGI specifications will be an essential component
for achieving consistent service and giving customer
satisfaction,” continued Mr. Pastorino.
“Key to this is the interoperability between
advanced consumer devices and the gateway. If there is a
lesson that network operators have learned from the
convergence of telecoms and entertainment technologies, it’s
that users will always call the service provider when there
is a problem – never the device manufacturer.
“The Home Gateway can guarantee quality of
service (QoS) across all managed services offered directly
by the operator and is capable of providing consistent
connectivity. The specifications outlined in the updated
Release from the HGI define the building blocks of this
device – designed to enable triple, or multi play services
to the residential market.”
The specifications document, in addition to
the requirements of a basic broadband router, supports
remote management and QoS of managed services, as well as
additional mechanisms for IMS, UPnP, DLNA, SIP, wireless
hotspot guest access, Connections Admission Control and
Parental Control.
“European telcos have seen considerable
success in deploying the home gateway, with in excess of 6
million now in customers’ homes and small offices. North
American carriers are introducing gateways in volume and we
are now seeing a rapid growth of bundled services,”
continued Mr. Pastorino. “The Home Gateway can accelerate
deployment by enhancing the reliability of advanced services
and making them more user-friendly, whilst also supporting
remote management, quality of service, device and services
support, and troubleshooting."
At CES 2008, Paolo Pastorino will take part
in two sessions: Digital Hollywood’s Session A – DH5, The
NexGen Entertainment Home Experience – From the Smart &
Connected TV to the PVR, Set-Top-Box & PC Experience,
taking place at 10:30AM on Tuesday January 8th;
and Parks Associates’ Digital Home Tech Support: New
Revenue Opportunities? on January 8th at
3:15PM.
To arrange a meeting with the Paolo
Pastorino of the HGI at CES 2008, please contact Howard
Jones on +44(0)7980 772 285 or email
howard@bcspr.co.uk.
Ends
The HGI was founded and launched by nine
telecom operators (Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, France
Telecom, KPN, TeliaSonera, NTT, Telefonica and Telecom
Italia) in December 2004, and now has members from five
continents, representing the entire spectrum of actors in
the broadband home arena. The main tasks of the HGI are to
establish home gateway-related technical and
interoperability specifications and provide input to
standardisation bodies.
For further information, please visit
www.homegatewayinitiative.org or email
contact@homegatewayinitiative.org.
For all media enquires, please email
howard@bcspr.co.uk or call +44 (0)115 948 6917.
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