Dear all

For your information.

Best regards,

Simao

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2nd ITU IPTV Interop Showcasing Event,

Singapore: 27 September 2010

I would like to invite you to the ITU IPTV Interop Showcasing Event in Singapore on Monday 27 September 2010. The Event is part of our 2nd ITU Interop Event on IPTV which will take place in the Fusionopolis R&D Complex in Singapore 23, 24 and 27 September 2010, in collaboration with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Institute of Infocomm Research (I²R). The first two days of the event - 23 and 24 September - will be a closed Conformance and Interoperability Testing Event, followed by the public Showcasing Event on 27 September.

IPTV is a major business opportunity for a wide variety of stakeholders - regulators, broadcasters, tele­com companies, contents providers, system integrators, test laboratories, artists, universities, and oth­ers. The ITU Interop events on IPTV seek to address issues of conformance to ITU IPTV standards and interoperability of products. ITU IPTV standards are the result of detailed international discussions which have included many developing countries. These talks take into account various aspects of technologies, including Intellectual Property Rights, maturity, stability and market adoption, leading to standards that provide for high quality and low cost. Since ITU IPTV standards are based on mature technologies, de­cided by consensus, interoperability is easier to achieve among different vendors.

The 1st ITU Interop event on IPTV took place in the ITU headquarters in Geneva on 20-23 July 2010. It showed that ITU IPTV standards are ready to go and already being implemented. Many companies are now selling TV and set-top box products based on ITU IPTV Terminal Standard ITU-T H.721, with prod­ucts available in Brazil, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, France, and elsewhere. Services based on ITU IPTV standards are deployed and boast several million subscribers in China and Japan. In Singapore, a test service is currently being conducted.

The 2nd ITU Interop in Singapore builds on the success of the 1st ITU Interop in Geneva. We will have a broader number of participants and visitors with particular emphasis on IPTV in Asia. Those organizations which participated in the 1st ITU IPTV Interop Event in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2010 - NTT, NEC, Sumitomo, OKI Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, and TVStorm - plan to participate, as well as several new organizations from Singapore and Republic of Korea. The Showcasing Event will demonstrate to the market the state of maturity and industry adoption of ITU IPTV standards, including: ITU-T H.701 (error-recovery), ITU-T H.721 (IPTV terminal), ITU-T H.740 (audience measurement), ITU-T H.750 (metadata), ITU-T H.761 (Ginga-NCL), ITU-T H.762 (LIME: interactive multimedia), and ITU-T H.770 (service discov­ery). The Event is free to visitors - ITU members and non members. More information can be found at: www.itu.int/interop http://www.itu.int/interop .

For this occasion of the 2nd ITU Interop, ITU would like to invite you to attend and see the interoperability of IPTV products in action. ITU will prepare a schedule of private one-on-one showcasing appointments for you. So please contact us now at interop@itu.int mailto:interop@itu.int to secure your viewing.

If you have any questions, please contact us at: interop@itu.int mailto:interop@itu.int .

Yours sincerely,

Malcolm Johnson

Director

Telecommunication Standardization Bureau