ITU-T IPTV standards development

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ITU-T IPTV standards development
DOCUMENT GSC13-PLEN-14
FOR Presentation
SOURCE ITU-T
AGENDA ITEM Plenary 6.6
CONTACT(S) John Visser, ITU-T jvisser_at_nortel.com Ghassem Koleyni, ITU-T ghassem_at_nortel.com

• John Visser, Chairman SG 19jvisser_at_nortel.com
• Ghassem Koleyni, IPTV-GSI TSR Coordinatorghassem_at_
  nortel.com
• International Telecommunication Union

Submission DateJuly 1, 2008
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Highlight of Current Activities (1)

• April 2006 ITU-T created the focus group on IPTV
  (FG IPTV) to look at the end-to-end aspects of
  providing IPTV services
• Took into account existing work of ITU SGs, plus
  work of SDOs, Fora and Consortia developed a set
  of deliverables in Dec 2007
• Freely available at http//www.itu.int/publ/T-PROC
  -IPTVFG-2008/en
• FG IPTV deliverables were transferred to the
  relevant SGs as input to the development of new
  Recommendations
• With multiple SGs involved, the IPTV-GSI (Global
  Standards Initiative) was created to provide an
  overall home for the work
• A GSI is a package of work conducted through
  co-located meetings of the involved SGs and
  Rapporteur groups under the umbrella of a
  coordinated work plan managed by a JCA
• Questions (working groups) from different SGs
  meet co-located
• Meet more frequently than regular study group
  (five times in 2008)?
• Experts in all related fields meet together,
  expediting progress

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Highlight of Current Activities (2)

• In response to market needs, the IPTV-GSI is
  aggressively developing the global standards to
  facilitate interoperability
• IPTV services requirements
• IPTV architecture
• Quality of experience requirements for IPTV
  services
• Performance monitoring for IPTV
• Traffic management mechanisms for the support of
  IPTV services
• Architecture and functional requirements for Home
  Network supporting IPTV services
• Multimedia application platforms end systems
  for IPTV
• IPTV Terminal Devices and End-System
• IPTV security aspects

• ITU-T is the focal point for global IPTV
  standards in response to market needs and to
  facilitate interoperability

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Strategic Direction

• Be responsive to the global market need
• Developing standards which provide end-to-end
  solution for IPTV and facilitate interoperability
• Promoting and keeping liaison relationship with
  all SDOs and fora involved with the development
  of IPTV standards
• Incorporating as much content from national and
  regional standards into ITU-T standards, based on
  members consensus, thus helping interoperability

• Making global standards happen through
  collaboration, not competition
• In todays environment, national/regional
  standards need to be supersets of global standards

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IPTV-GSI achievements

• Consented three Recommendations
• Y.1910, IPTV functional architecture (SG 13, May
  2008)
• G.1080, Quality of experience requirements for
  IPTV services (SG 12, May 2008)
• G.1081, Performance monitoring points for IPTV
  (SG 12, May 2008)
• Approved one supplement
• Supplement 5 to Y-series Recommendations, ITU-T
  Y.1900-series, Supplement on IPTV service use
  cases (SG 13, May 2008)

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Challenges

• Timely completion of standards to meet industry /
  market needs
• Coordination with recognized SDOs to avoid
  duplicate standards
• Providing a set of standards that
• Support end-to-end solutions
• Ensure interoperability between suppliers
• Ensure interoperability of services

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Next Steps/Actions

• Complete the first sets of Recommendations
• Look to developing further IPTV related
  Recommendations
• Attention will be given to Recommendations which
  are indirectly related to IPTV but essential to
  its operation
• Revisit NGN-related Recommendations to ensure
  they fully support IPTV services

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Supplemental Slides
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IPTV functional architecture
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Three architectural approaches

• NGN-based and IMS-based architecture
• An IPTV service component is drawn on top of the
  other NGN service components in NGN
  architecture.
• The IPTV service component is achieved by using
  IMS
• NGN-based and non-IMS-based architecture
• An IPTV service component is drawn on top of the
  other NGN service components in NGN
  architecture
• The IPTV service component is achieved without
  using IMS
• Non-NGN-based architecture
• The architecture does not depend on NGN
  architecture