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| Global Telecom Operator Bodies Team to Drive Deployments of Convergence Services The Home Gateway Initiative and the Fixed Mobile Convergence Alliance have entered a formal cooperation agreement that will see the two leading bodies collaborate towards ensuring widespread availability of fully interoperable home gateways, access points and devices that deliver the best user experience possible. The two industry bodies together represent 36 telecom operators and over 1 billion customers around the world who stand to benefit from the development of Convergence services. With customer needs at the very heart of this relationship, the two organizations will formulate a common message on product interoperability and ease of use requirements, harnessing support from leading vendors as well as standards bodies to further enhance industry alignment and adoption of convergence products and services. Marking an important milestone in the increased availability of Convergence services, members of the HGI and the FMCA will jointly review the product requirements and technical specifications generated by their various working groups. The focus will be on the delivery of a richer user experience in the broadband home, allowing customers to benefit from far greater interoperability, ease of use and seamlessness of gateways, devices and applications. Underpinning the relationship will be the strategic alignment of the HGI's Release 2.0 and the FMCA's Product Requirements Definition, PRD Release 3.0. These are detailed technical documents providing telecom-operator guidance for the convergence of services, networks and devices in the broadband home Both the FMCA PRD Release 3.0 and HGI Release 2.0 are scheduled for completion in Q3 2007. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |