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About Broadband
The Broadband Forum recently changed name from DSL Forum. Broadband Forum is a consortium of approximately 200 leading industry players covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies. Its work ensures that service providers are able to rollout, as well as introduce new services quickly and effectively, using common platforms and practices that makes all they do easily scalable, and economical.
Established in 1994, the Forum continues its drive to develop the full potential of DSL to meet the broadband needs of the mass market. In eleven years, the Broadband Forum has moved through defining the core Digital Subscriber Line technology to establishing advanced architecture standards, and maximizing effectiveness in deployment, reach and application support.
The forum has driven global standardization of ADSL, SHDSL, VDSL, ADSL2plus, and VDSL2 and more are in process. These will provide a complete portfolio of digital subscriber line technologies designed to deliver ubiquitous broadband services for a wide range of situations and applications that will continue the transformation of our day-to-day lives in an on-line world. Best practices for auto-configuration, flow-through provisioning, equipment interoperability and other key facilitators of scaleable, global, mass-market deployment of Broadband broadband, are fast-tracked by Broadband Forum.
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About HGI
The Home Gateway Initiative is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.In addition to Telcos, several manufacturers have joined the alliance.
HGI was formed to boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding members. The initiative will drive the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of services. The goals of the initiative are:
- To produce and downstream requirements for a residential gateway enabling end to end delivery of services.
- To work with manufacturers in order to leverage volumes, to validate with manufacturer against uses cases and requirements, to ensure interoperability.
- The initiative will take as a basis the work undertaken within existing bodies (such as ITU H610, DSL forum, DLNA, OSGi Alliance ...) and will analyse gaps with respects to its requirements.
The goals are realised through the open international collaboration of all interested parties, on reasonable terms applied uniformly and openly. HGI is a not for profit organisation. HGI will contribute to appropriate standards bodies and especially to an organization as the ITU-T.
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About ETSI
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, non-profit organization, whose mission is to produce telecommunications standards for today and for the future. Based in Sophia Antipolis (France), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is officially responsible for standardization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within Europe.
These technologies include telecommunications, broadcasting and related areas such as intelligent transportation and medical electronics. ETSI unites 655 members from 59 countries inside and outside Europe, including manufacturers, network operators, administrations, service providers, research bodies and users - in fact, all the key players in the ICT arena.
ETSI plays a major role in developing a wide range of standards and other technical documentation as Europe's contribution to world-wide ICT standardization. This activity is supplemented by interoperability testing services and other specialisms. ETSI's prime objective is to support global harmonization by providing a forum in which all the key players can contribute actively. ETSI is officially recognized by the European Commission and the EFTA secretariat.
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About UPnP Forum
By defining and publishing UPnP™ device and service descriptions, members of the UPnP™ Forum are enabling the emergence of easily connected devices and simplifying the implementation of home and corporate networks. In doing so, UPnP™ Forum members are creating new product opportunities for their companies and for other organizations.
The UPnP™ Forum is a group of companies and individuals across multiple industries that play a leading role in the authoring of specifications for UPnP™ devices and services. Formed in October 1999, the Forum is an unincorporated entity of more than 811 consumer electronics, computing, home automation, home security, appliances, printing, photography, computer networking, mobile products and other leading companies working together in an open process to design schema and protocol standards for the UPnP™ initiative.
The goals of the Forum are to allow devices to connect seamlessly and to simplify the implementation of networks in the home and corporate environments. The Forum will achieve this by defining and publishing UPnP™ device control protocols built upon open, Internet-based communication standards.
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About WIFI Alliance
In 1999, several industry leaders came together to form a global, non-profit organization with the goal of driving the adoption of a single worldwide-accepted standard for high-speed wireless local area networking. Today this is known as the Wi-Fi Alliance, with more than 250 members and growing, common goals still bind us together.
As Wi-Fi networks continue to expand through businesses, homes, and now public hotspots that provide wireless access locations for people on the go, compatibility is critical. At the Wi-Fi Alliance we develop universal specifications and follow through with rigorous testing and Wi-Fi certification of wireless devices. The end result leads to the confidence that both home and enterprise users need to continue to embrace Wi-Fi.
To date the alliance has certified the interoperability of more than 2,800 products. There is more, however, to Wi-Fi Alliance than interoperability. We work to provide Wi-Fi users with the information they need to make decisions about today's Wi-Fi systems. Whether you are a tech-savvy IT director, a security-minded CIO, or a home user intrigued by Wi-Fi possibilities, our aim is to provide the information you need to proceed with confidence and peace of mind.
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About FTTH Council
The Fiber-to-the-Home Council is a non-profit organization established to help its members with planning, marketing, implementing and managing FTTH solutions. Council membership includes municipalities, utilities, developers, and traditional and non-traditional service providers, creating a cohesive group to share knowledge and build industry consensus on key issues surrounding fiber-to-the-home.
The mission of the Council is to educate, promote and accelerate fiber-to-the-home and the resulting quality of life enhancements. Its objectives are to supply a consistent and accurate view of FTTH, promote FTTH market development, and to be recognized by the industry as the fiber-to-the-home resource. |