Communication Standards Activities in China

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Communication Standards Activities in China

• 7TH ASTAP Forum
• 3 -7 Aug 2003

• BingMei WU
• CCSA,China
• Tel[phone]
• Fax[phone]
• Email wbm_at_ccsa.org.cn

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• 1. A Brief Introduction to China Communications
  Standards Association
• 2. Administrative System for Standardization Work
  in China
• 3. The Situation of the Study on the
  Communication Standards in China
• 4. To strengthen the cooperation on standards
  work with international

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China Communications Standards Association (CCSA)

• founded on December 18, 2002.
• With the approval of the MII and Standardization
  Administration of China and the Civil Affairs
  Ministry,
• a non-profit organization
• a voluntary organization consisting of local
  enterprises and organizations in China.
• carrying out technical standardization on
  communications

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Scope of Activities

• To promulgate the state laws, regulations and
  policies on standardization
• To carry out research and survey activities on
  communications standardization system, making
  suggestions of establishing/revising the projects
  of communications standards
• To promote the implementation of communications
  standards through carrying out related
  activities, such as promulgation of
  communications standards, consultation, service
  and training
• To organize national and international technical
  seminars as well as activities of cooperation and
  exchanges to collect and research national and
  international communications standards and
  related information to support standardization
  activities
• To undertake work related to standardization
  commissioned by the relevant Authorities, its
  members and other organizations.

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Organizational Structure
General Assembly
council
Advisory Committee
Technical Committee
Technical Committee

Secretariat
General Office
Working Group
Technology Department
Working Group
Planning and Research Department
Project Group
Project Group
Standardization Promoting Department
External Communication Department
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Technical Committees

• Network and Switching Technical Committee
• Transport and access network Technical Committee
  
• Wireless Communication Technical Committee
• IP and Multimedia Technical Committee
• Network Management Technical Committee
• Communication Power Supply Technical Committee
• Communications Security Technical Committee
• Mobile Internet Protocol Special Group .

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Network and Switching Technical Committee

• Scope of the study
• Information communications network general,
  performance, switching, numbering, services,
  signaling protocol, billing rules, network
  interfaces and interconnection, Terminal.
• Corresponded to ITU-T SG11, 12 and 13
• Currently study on NGN and soft switching etc.

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Transport and access network Technical Committee

• Scope of the studyTransport network, systems and
  equipment, access network, transmission media and
  components, transmission of TV and multimedia
  digital signal.
• Corresponded to ITU-T SG6, 9 and 15
• Currently study on DWDM?ASON and xDSL etc.

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Wireless Communication Technical Committee

• Scope of the studyProtocols and equipments in
  the field of mobile communications (including
  wireless access networks, mobile core networks,
  terminals and services), microwave, satellite,
  fixed wireless access, paging and research of
  frequency spectrum.
• Corresponded to ITU-R and ITU-T SSG
• Currently study on mobile communications
  (cdma-2000?TD-SCDMA?WCDMA etc.), wireless access
  and wireless LAN etc.

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IP and Multimedia Technical Committee

• Scope of the study Multimedia services and
  systems, data communications and data
  communications networks, remote information
  systems, IP service applications, IP network
  equipment.
• Corresponded to ITU-T SG16 and SG17
• Currently study on IPv6? IP services
  Applications and the interworking between IP
  network equipments etc.

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Network Management Technical Committee

• Scope of the study Network management and
  maintenance.
• Corresponded to ITU-T SG4
• Currently study on 3G and network management of
  the Access Network.

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Membership(1)

• The membership of CCSA is only applied to
  organizations.
• Any organization with qualification of legal
  persons approved by the State, such as RD
  institute, design institute, manufacturer,
  network operator, university and other related
  society, as well as joint venture, can
  voluntarily apply for the membership. They shall
  be approved as the full members or nonvoting
  members by the Board of CCSA as long as they
  accept the Bylaw of CCSA, undertake a members
  obligations and pay membership dues.

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Membership(2)

• Currently, CCSA has accepted over 140 members
  covering network operators such as China Telecom,
  China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom etc. and
  RD institutes, design institutes and university
  such as China Academy of Telecommunications
  research, Wuhan Research Institute of Posts
  Telecommunications, China Information Technology
  Designing Consulting Institute, Beijing
  University of Posts and Telecommunications etc.
  and manufacturers such as Datang Telecom, ZTE,
  Huawei Technology, China PUTIAN etc.

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Membership-- Observers

• Foreign companies and foreign-investment
  enterprises can apply for joining in CCSA if they
  voluntarily file an application, acknowledge the
  Rules of Observers, fulfill observers'
  obligations, and pay observers activity fees
  according to the Rules. After the approval by
  CCSA, the applicants shall become the observers
  of CCSA.
• Currently, CCSA has accepted over 20 observers
  including Siemens, Qualcomm, Motorola,
  Ericsson,FUJITSU, HITACHI, ETRI, SAMSUNGCorning
  etc.

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• Administrative System for Standardization Work in
  China

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Standard Administration System In China

• Government Administration System
• Standardization Administration of China(SAC)To
  carry out centralized administration for
  standardization in China
• MIITo carry out administration for
  standardization in communications industry

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The System of Chinese Standards

• National Standards
• National Standards shall be developed for
  technical requirements that need to be unified
  national wide.
• Industry Standards about 40 types of
  professional standards.
• Local Standards
• Enterprise Standards

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Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

• SAC is theThe subordinate organization of General
  Administration of Quality Supervision ,
  Inspection and Quarantine( AQSIQ)
• In charge of organizing, harmonizing and
  compiling the formulation and revision plans of
  the national standards (including national
  standard samples)
• In charge of the checkup,approval, numbering and
  publication of the national standards as a whole

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Ministry of Information Industry(MII)

• In charge of organizing, harmonizing and
  compiling the formulation and revision plans of
  the communication industry standards
• In charge of the approval, numbering and
  publication of the communication industry
  standards as a whole
• Science Technology Department of MII Realize
  unified administration of communications
  standardization work

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CCSA

• In charge of making suggestions of establishing
  and revising the projects of communications
  standards to SAC or MII
• The suggestions of national standard are
  permitted by SAC .The suggestions of industry
  standard are permitted by MII.
• In charge of organizing the work of the
  formulation and revision of the national and
  industry standards related to communications
• The national standards are approved, numbered and
  published by SAC. The industry standards are
  approved, numbered and published by MII.

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• The Situation of the Study on the
  Communication Standards in China

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The Status Quo of Standards Research in China-NGN

• NGN is just like a large bag, which is filled by
  both the dissatisfaction to the current network
  and the expectation of the new network
• ITU does not define a distinctive and symbolic
  technique for NGN, but hopes that it can combine
  all the advantages of the current networks
• Currently, we are actively following the
  standards research information all over the
  world, and putting emphases on the study of the
  softswitch, IPV6, ASON, 3G or Beyond 3G etc.

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The Situation of the Study on the Communication
Standards in China-Soft Switching(1)

• The technologies concerning Soft switching will
  be the focus of the voice and implementation
  multimedia solutions in NGN. The concrete and
  cautious attitude should be adopted in the
  development and application of the Soft Switching
  technology.
• Since the later half year of 1999, the Soft
  Switching technology has been followed and
  studied in China.
• MII published a reference document named General
  Technical Requirements of Soft Switching
  Equipments in 2001.
• The position of Soft Switching in the network has
  been specified. And It has been clarified in the
  aspect of functional requirement, service
  requirement, operation, maintenance and network
  management, protocol and interface requirement,
  charging requirements, performance requirement,
  and the requirement on the interworking between
  the networks based on the soft Switching
  technology and the IP telephone networks based on
  H.323 and intelligent networks etc.

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The Situation of the Study on the
Communication Standards in China- Soft
Switching(2)

• Currently many manufacturers in China have
  started to study and develop Soft Switching
  system. Among them, ZTE and Huawei Technology has
  provided solutions based on the Soft Switching
  network, and developed a Soft Switching system
  that can provide voice service.
• At present, China Telecom, China Netcom, China
  Railcom and China Mobile are all carrying out
  technique and service tests actively.
• The technical issues that still need to discuss
  the way of networking, new service exploitation,
  network QoS and network security, commercial
  model, network management, operation and
  maintenance, the terminals providing services
  etc.

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The Situation of the Study on the
Communication Standards in China-
IPv6

• The Standardization work on IPv6 will cover the
  following 6 aspects
• Basic protocol
• The distribution of the architecture and the
  performance requirements of the network
• Evaluation standards and test methods of the
  network
• Network equipments specification and Network
  equipments test specification
• Mobile IPv6
• Standards on the services and the applications of
  IPv6

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The Situation of the Study on the
Communication Standards in China- Beyond 3G(1)

• To regard Beyond 3G as one of the key fields of
  the strategic study, aiming at the development of
  the mobile communication industry around 2010,
  and to study the general environment technology
  for the future wireless communication
• To carry out studies on services and market,
  frequency and key technologies according to the
  schedule of ITU.

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The Situation of the Study on the
Communication Standards in China- Beyond 3G(2)

• To carry out studies according to the framework
  and the schedule of ITU
• To follow but not crow about while adopting both
  active and reliable attitude and to pay attention
  to the negative influences
• To follow the technical development of Beyond 3G,
  and study the policies applicable to China
• To study the open service and commercial model of
  Beyond 3G
• To study the frequency arrangement and the
  applications of Beyond 3G
• To study the technologies of Beyond 3G, such as
  OFDM etc.

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The Situation of the Study on the
Communication Standards in China- Beyond 3G(3)

• In April and August, 2002, workshops were held
  respectively the international and national in
  China. During the workshops, the authorities from
  ITU-R, ITU-T, WWRF, Japan, Korea, 863 project
  in China, and many famous companies in the world
  to make speeches and to exchange information with
  each other.

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To strengthen the cooperation on
standards work with International
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• CCSA has established friendly cooperation
  relationship with international and regional
  standardization organizations and forums. CCSA is
  one of the organizational partners of 3GPP and
  3GPP2, and has taken part in the activities such
  as ETSI?GSC?ISC?IETF?TMF etc.
• CCSA cooperates tightly with the standardization
  organizations such as TTA, TTC, ARIB etc. in
  China, Japan and Korea.
• The CJK IT Standards Meeting has been hosted
  twice in Korea and Japan. The 3rd CJK IT
  Standards Meeting which is originally planned to
  be held in June and later changed to be held in
  November in Beijing because of SARS. The meeting
  is now under active preparation.

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