Challenges of software development and control by operators'

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Challenges of software development and control by
operators.
Guillaume BRUYERE Customer Premises Equipments
Business Unit September 21, 2005
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Todays situation
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We want New services on New devices
Network address book
Presence and availability
LiveCom
Videophones
VoIP phones
Convergence phones
Media renderers
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We want to control Look and feel
France Telecom Home Screen
France Telecom Icons
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We want it to work with our platforms
Easy connection
SIP - G729EV H264 SyncML XHTML
Web Kiosk
SMS MMS
VoIP
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We reach these goals with software
New services
Look and feel
Interface with our platforms
Appli
Appli
Appli
OS Services
Protocols - Codecs
GUI
Core Operating System
Driver
Driver
Hardware
Device layers
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Our goals with software
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On software platforms

• Open platforms, to carry out software development
  of FT applications.
• Same OS environment accross devices.
• We dont want to develop too many versions of our
  specific applications.
• Open on-the-shelf applications.
• For customisation of look and feel icons, etc
• France Telecom/Home is OS-agnostic.

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For Cost and Time-to-market Savings

• Choose best in class applications from
  application vendors market.
• Quality, standard compliance and price.
• Our platforms need to be standard for that.
• Improve sourcing of apps, with Orange/France
  Telecom convergence.
• Same application set accross devices, to improve
  interoperability with our platforms.
• Codecs and protocols recommendation of proven
  software modules, already tested against our
  platforms.
• Remember Device management helps on money,
  time-to-market, service push, bug fixing.

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Threats we want to avoid

• Fragmentation of OS brands, of Application
  brands, of Protocols stack brands.
• Closed platforms.
• Proprietary platforms.

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Actors
Device manufacturers
Software vendors
Chipset vendors
Telcos

• Provide software reference implementations for
  their chipsets.
• We need to influence them.
• ?HGDR
• ?Meetings
• ?LiPS

• Build devices according to telcos requirements.
• We need to make them know our requirements and
  roadmap.
• ?HGDR
• ?RFP, RFQ

• Should have common requirements on software,
  while leaving space for differenciation.
• ? OMTP ?

• Sell software to chipset, device and telcos.

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Conclusion
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A new paradigm

• Up to recently, FT only bought on-the-shelf
  devices, with little customisation.
• And Device manufacturers used to build closed,
  limited devices.
• A new echosystem has to be put in place if we,
  operators, want to succeed in software.
• Actions have already been successfully put in
  place HGDR, OMTP, LiPS, RFP to manufacturers,
  Development contracts
• We must continue these actions.
• Other parallel paths must be studied Service
  development task force within FT, Buy some OS
  company shares

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Thank you !