Inaugural IPTV Standards Summit At Telco TV

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The opening session of this year's Telco TV helped bring IPTV standards to the forefront, by bringing together representatives from leading industry bodies in one place for the very first time. The roundtable discussion panel on emerging standards in IPTV included Dan O'Callaghan, Chair of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions IPTV Interoperability Forum, Virginia Williams, Director of Standards at Consumer Electronics Association, Scott Smyers, President and Chairman of the Digital Living Network Alliance, Robin Mersh, Chief Operating Office of the DSL Forum, Union Focus Group IPTV.

Chaired by Graham Finnie, chief analyst with Heavy Reading, the panel provided an overview of the various bodies and work that is underway to equip the telecom and consumer electronic industries with the tools they need to optimize the potential of IPTV. All panelists uniformly recognized the need for a set of standards that Telcos and the consumer electronics (CE) industry can refer to.

Due to the sheer number of organizations developing standards, work at times has been duplicated or overlooked, and all agreed that the closer liaison among the organizations being forged today will benefit the industry. Key issues such as Quality of Experience (QoE), remote management and gaps identified by various industry bodies were discussed during the session.

As well as developing and expanding these current standards, identifying opportunities where gaps have been left is just as important. Many organizations, including the DSL Forum, CEA, ATIS, ITU and the DLNA, have conducted their own gap analysis to ascertain where these areas are and to determine which issues and opportunities are within each organization's scope of work. One issue not being overlooked is ensuring standards keep up with the pace of industry developments.

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