atis launches iptv standards forum

“The ATIS IIF will provide the industry with the big picture for IPTV technology standardization,” says Kevin Schneider, CTO of ADTRAN Inc. and co-chair of the ATIS IPTV Exploratory Group, which was formed in April to examine the technical issues surrounding the successful wide-scale deployment of IPTV. “ATIS will create an overall reference architecture supporting deployment of IPTV and work with standards groups external to ATIS to establish standards that produce an end-to-end IPTV solution.”

The scope of the IIF includes: coordination of standards activities for IPTV technologies, including acting as a liaison with outside groups; development of interoperability agreements, technical reports and ATIS standards; and providing the venue for interoperability activities and the assessment of IPTV issues in the context of next-generation networks. Initial objectives of the IIF will include: the creation of an industry overall reference architecture for IPTV; content security; interoperability standards and testing requirements for components; restoration after outages; QoS; path establishment; reliability and robustness of service components; the establishment of user expectations; and more.

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