An Introduction to TTA Standardization Activities

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TTA Activities
The 7th ASTAP meeting August 4-8 2003, Seoul,
Korea
Hong Won Kim Director, International Cooperation
Telecommunications Technology Association
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Mission
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Brief History

• In April 1988, Communication Technology
  Promotion Council
• examined the feasibilities to establish a
  Civilian Standardization
• Organization
• - to cope global trends, Privatization,
  Competition, Deregulation
• - to cope the requests for the opening of
  Korea telecom market
• - to promote civilian standardization
  activities in Korea
• December 1988, Establishment of TTA
• - by the Article 32, Civil Law
• August 1992, Extension of TTA
• - Accredited as Standardization Organization
  by MIC
• - by the Article 30, The Framework Act on
  Telecommunications
• December 2001, Launching the Testing and
  Certification Services
• - Telecommunication, Software, Digital
  Broadcasting and Mobile Areas
• - TTA moved to new Office in Bundang, Kyunggi
  province

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Major Activities

• Establishment of Standards in the field of
  Info-Communications
• Dissemination of the Standards information
• - Standards Deliverables, Research Reports,
  Seminars and Training,
• and Info-Comm Dictionary, etc.
• International Standardization Activities
• - Recognized as ITU-T Rec. referencing
  organization (Jul. 2001)
• - CJK IT Standards Meeting among CCSA, ARIB,
  TTC, TTA (Nov. 2002)
• - Global Standards Collaboration (GSC/RAST)
• - 3rd Generation Mobile Partnership Projects
  (3GPP, 3GPP2)
• - Bilateral Standardization Cooperation with
  SDOs (ACIF, ETSI, ITU-AJ
• TTC, ARIB, T1, TSACC)
• IT Testing and Certification Services in the
  areas of Network
• Equipment, Software Products, Digital
  Broadcasting Equipment
• and Mobile Communication Terminals

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Organizational Structure
Technical Assembly, Secretariat
Board of Directors
Technical Assembly
Secretary General
Technical Committees(10)
Strategy Operation Committee
Administration Dept.
Study Groups(37)
Special Committees(3) Ad-hoc (1)
Standardization Dept.
Project Groups(3)
Standardization Planning Research Dept.
Working Groups(9)
Information Telecommunications Testing
Laboratory
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TTA Membership

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Standardization Organization
Technical Assembly, Technical Committees, Project
Groups

Technical Assembly
TC2 Telecommunication Network (5SGs)
TC3 Transmission (4SGs)
Strategy Operation Committee
TC5 Broadcasting (3SGs)
TC6 Radiocommunication (8SGs)
SC1 Strategic Planning
TC7 IT Application (4SGs)
SC2 Testing Certification
TC8 Data Engineering (3SGs)
SC3 International Cooperation
TC9 IT Software Engineering (2SGs)
Adhoc2 User Group
TC10 Information Security (3SGs)
TC11 IC Card (1SGs)
Chairman of TA Dr. Sang-Hoon Lee (KT) Vice
Chairman of TA Dr. Ki-Shik Park (ETRI) Dr.
Kyu-Jin Wee (RRL) Dr. Young-Kyun Kim (Samsung)
TC12 NGIS (4SGs)
PG1 IMT-2000 (6WGs)
PG4 ITS (3WGs)
PG5 Portable Internet
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Status of TTA Standards
Radiocommunication 1,244(1,353) 55
( ) TTA English Standards
As of 31 March. 2003
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Core Standardization Area of TTA

• Portable Internet (2.3GHz)
• - Wireless internet access from a portable
  wireless equipment
• - from indoor to outdoor, nomadic
  mobility, high data rate
• - MIC reallocated the frequency 2300-2400
  Mhz (Dec. 2002)
• - Standardization group (PG5) was formed
  (Jul. 2003)
• Wireless LAN
• Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
• IPv6
• MPLS
• LBS
• Digital Home Equipments
• VDSL
• ITS
• Biometrics

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Electronic Information Services

• The Number of Standards Downloading since Year
  2002
• IT Standard Weekly Service
• - Selected Information Dissemination Service
  - Providing IT Technology
  Standardization
• Information via TTA Web, Mailing Group.

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Electronic Support by TTA Homepages

• Standardization Activities
• - Rules of Procedures, Committees
  Activities (Electronic Balloting),
• Proposal of Standard, Request to
  Participation in committees, etc.
• Standards Information -
  Search/Browse/Download of Standards, IT Standards
  Dictionary
• (30,000 Words)
• Secretariat Support Services
• - Meeting Notification, Meeting Docs,
  Participants, Minutes, etc.
• - Reports Standardization Activity Plan,
  Mid-term and Final Reports
• Standardization Work Item Record Handling
• - Maintain a historical record of each
  Standardization Work Item for it's life
  cycle
• Video conferencing tool is being under test
  trial (1st Half, 2003)

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Testing Certification Services
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Interoperability Testing Service - ION
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Testing Certification Services

• Testing Certification Performances in 2002
• Facilities
• - Testing and Reference Equipment over 100
• - 4 Testing Certification Labs
• - 4 Anachoic Chambers for CDMA and
  Bluetooth testing
• - 1 OpenLab (100 m2) for IOP event
• - 8 Customer Islands
• - Seminar Rooms

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Certification Logos of TTA
Certifying that the product has met the
requirements specified in the Quality
Certification Standards of Software
Verifying that the product has met the
requirements requested by the client
Confirming that the product has been tested in
accordance with the test spec. prepared by the
TTA and the client
Certifying that the product has met the
certification criteria prepared by the
local/foreign standardization organizations
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Testing Partnership

• The Tolly Group (USA)
• - Network Equipment Area
• - Provides joint testing service and Issues
  Joint-Certification Logo
• VeriTest (USA)
• - Software Product Area
• - Provides joint testing service and Issues
  Joint-Certification Logos

Verifying that the product has met the
requirements set forth by the Up-to-Spec
standards of the Tolly Group
Verifying that the product has met the
requirements set forth by the Tolly verified
standards of the Tolly Group
Certifying S/W products met the standards in the
areas of functionality, platform compatibility
and usability with options of performance and/or
internationalization by VeriTest and TTA
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Thanks for your Attention !
Hong Won Kim Director International
Cooperation, TTA Tel [phone] Fax
82-31-724-0109 E-mail hwkim_at_tta.or.kr URL
www.tta.or.kr