Transcript ITU-T: 2005

ITU-T
2005-2008
Malcolm Johnson
Director, Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau, ITU
Johannesburg, South Africa
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International
Telecommunication
Union
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ITU-T Objectives
 Develop and publish
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global standards
Identify areas for future
standardization
Provide an attractive and effective forum for
the development of international standards
Promote the value of ITU-T
Disseminate information and know-how
Cooperate and collaborate
Provide support and assistance
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WSIS Implementation
 ITU sole Facilitator for WSIS Action Lines
 C2 Information and Communication Infrastructure
 C5 Building Confidence and Security in the Use of ICTs
 ITU acts as co-facilitator for Action Lines
 C1 The role of public governance authorities and all
stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
 C3 Access to information and knowledge
 C4 Capacity building
 C7 ICT applications (E-government, E-business, E-learning,
E-health, E-employment, E-environment, E-agriculture, Escience)
 C11 International and regional cooperation
 From 2008, ITU will take over from UNDP
 C6 Enabling environment
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ITU-T Resources
ITU-T share in the ITU financial budget
ITU-T share in the ITU programme budget
ITU-T
ITU-D
ITU-T
8%
18%
ITU-D
17%
Intersectoral
26%
20%
ITU-R
Gen.Sec
21%
54%
ITU-R
36%
Financing from Sector Members and Associates in the ITU-T programme budget
ITU-T
Sector
Members
Member
States &
misc.
65%
31%
ITU-T
Assocs
4%
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ITU-T Staff: Gender balance
(from 26 countries)
TSB Gender balance
Women
P level
8%
Men P
level
31%
Women
G level
48%
Men G
level
13%
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Historic decision:
Standards for free
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Total
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Type of text
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Sup.
Cor.
Amd./Ann.
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Rec.
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•ITU-T Recs
available online
without charge
•in 2007:
almost 3
million
downloads
•3391 ITU-T
Recs currently
in force
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2008 (Projected)
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ITU-T’s work spans all layers
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ITU-T provides Broadband Access
 Copper access:
Hundreds of millions of subscribers use
ITU-T’s DSL
up to 200Mbit/s aggregate
 Cable:
 IPCablecom
 Optical access:
ITU-T’s GPON
allows up to
2.5Gbit/s
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GPON interoperability pavilion
Nxtcomm, Chicago, 2007
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… and is now pushing Optical
Transport to 100 Gbit/s
 Optical Transport Systems:
10 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s per
wavelength
Evolving towards 100 Gbit/s per
wavelength
Advances on coarse and dense WDM
(Wave Division Multiplexing)
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Next Generation Networks …
 Telecoms revolution: From circuits
to packets
 Management tool:
itu.int/ngnproject/
 Next Generation Networks:
Managed
Secured
with Quality of Service
Saving money for customers and
service providers
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… provide new services
+ Recs in study
groups
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The network knocks at your door
 Home Networking to
achieve interoperability
on a global scale
 Converged architecture
and services
 Next generation
set-top box
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The Internet of things
 Connecting people, gadgets
and services for a truly
networked society
 Ubiquitous sensor networks,
 Networked Identification (RFID)
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New numbers to remember
 116 111 globally
harmonized child
helpline
 Above average press
coverage
 888 assigned to the
United Nations Office
for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA)
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Money matters
 Indicative rate for
international mobile
termination established
 Update of mechanisms
for settlement of
accounts for services
 Network externalities
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ITU-T’s quantum leaps in speech,
audio and video quality
 Emmy award for
H.264 | MPEG-4 AVC
(video)
 Extension of work on
speech coding to
wideband
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Watch this: With/without H.264
A conventional TV screen image (right) is pictured
in contrast with that of an HD image, which, due to
its additional lines, results in much finer detail.
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Audio codecs:
Quality improvement
G.729 A
(8 kbit/s)  narrowband (4 kHz)
G.718
(32 kbit/s)  wideband (8 kHz)
G.722.1 C (32 kbit/s)  superwideband (14 kHz)
G.719
(48 kbit/s)  fullband (20 kHz)
Original (CD quality, 16-bit PCM 20 kHz)
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ICTs and Climate Change
 Checklist to ensure new
standards take climate
change into account
 Methodology to describe
and estimate present and
future user [energy]
consumption of ICTs over
their entire life-cycle
UN Secretary-General,
Ban Ki-moon: "ITU is one of the
very important stakeholders in the
area of climate change."
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Participants in
Focus Group ICT
and Climate
Change
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Emergency Communications
 Common Alerting
Protocol (CAP)
 A consistent method
of delivery for
warning messages
 Call priority schemes
 Giving priority in
disaster zones to
emergency calls
ITU has deployed satellite terminals to
help restore communications in the
aftermath of disasters around the world
 In Case of
Emergency numbers
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Intelligent Transport Systems:
new work, new members
 Partnership
Geneva Motor
Show – ITU
 New work:
 Annual Event
 Next: 4-5 March 2009
Wideband
communication
in cars
Vehicle gateway
protocol
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ITU recognizes dedication to
accessibility cause
 ITU’s World
Telecommunication
and Information
Society Day 2008:
Andrea Saks
Connecting persons
with disabilities to
opportunities offered
by ICTs.
Laureat: Andrea Saks
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Regional Development Forums
Bridging the standardization gap
Hanoi, September 2008
Accra, May 2008
Kigali, October 2007
Brasilia, May
2008
Damascus,
July 2008
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Tashkent,
June 2008
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Action to Bridge the
Standardization Gap
 Voluntary fund >USD 200,000
 Korea Communications Commission,
Nokia Siemens Networks, Microsoft and Cisco
 Five Regional Development Forums
 Remote participation tools
 Close to 100 remote meetings, more
than 700 participants (1st half 2008)
 Regional groups established in
Africa, the Americas, Arab states
and Asia-Pacific
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Workshops: New work, new
blood, new friends
Joint ITU and IETF
workshop on NGN,
2005
 Outreach to non ITU
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audience
Can result in new work
 eg Identity
Management
Partnerships: IETF,
IEEE, OASIS, Grid
Forum, ISO, IEC
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workshops.
2008, new peak: 24
workshops
Many in collaboration
with ITU-D
Remote participation
now possible
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Technology watch: Scouting
out future technologies …
 Recent papers:
 Remote collaboration tools
 Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
 ICTs and Climate Change
 Telepresence
 High-performance video-conferencing
 Intelligent Transport Systems
 Lawful interception (LI)
 Next-Generation Networks (NGNs) and
energy efficiency
 Upcoming: ICTs and food security,
network robotics, telebiometrics
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… and future engineers:
Dialogue with academia is
bearing fruit
 2nd Kaleidoscope event:
 September
2009,
Mar del Plata
May 2008, Geneva
 Best papers forwarded
to ITU-T Study Groups
 Published by IEEE
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Progress achieved in
Intellectual Property Rights
 Established Common
Patent Policy for ITU-T,
ITU-R, ISO, IEC
 Comprises policy,
guidelines, forms
 TSB Director’s IPR ad
hoc group provides vital
advice:
 Patents
 Software copyrights
 Marks
 IPR workshop 2008
 Searchable ITU-T patent
information database
www.itu.int/ipr/
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ITU-T seeks collaboration
 44 formal partnerships
 World Standards Cooperation
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 patent policy
 joint events
ITU-T and IEEE
 MoU
 Joint events
Global Standards Collaboration
 Endorsement of ITU climate
change activity
ITU-T and 3GPP
 Clarification of process
ITU-T and IETF
 Management meetings
ITU-T and ICANN
 Board presence
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ITU-T uses traditional
communications tools …
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…has recently significantly
updated its website …
New homepage and site wide template
100+ pages translated into six languages
New pages for those new to ITU-T
Newsfeed number one
entry point to ITU-T web
e-flash 3000 subscribers
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… upped use of web 2.0
technologies …
ITU-T and Wikipedia. Many entries updated
Newsfeeds picked up in
media all around the world
Social bookmarking
ITU YouTube channel
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… and feeds the press
Press Lunch, London
June 2008 –
Journalists from:
Led directly to BBC world
service interview
(and other coverage)
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ITU-T’s Toolkit for web-based
applications is expanding
Web Search
& display
facility
IPR
database
Reporting
facilities
Specialized
updating
interfaces
Work
program
database
AAP
database
TSB Rec
database
Workflow
database
Bridge
Documentum
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ITU-T well prepared for WTSA
Regional meetings
Regional proposals
98 registered countries
Over 900 registered participants
51 from developing countries
200 documents
1st time in Africa
1st time chaired by a woman
1st time preceded by GSS
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Thank you, ً‫شكرا‬, спасибо, merci,
gracias, 谢谢
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Member States, Sector Members, Associates
Thousands of experts
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Elected officials
 Study Group Chairmen with their Management Teams
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This……a
is the
world
thanksITU
to ITU
Now
world
imagine……
without
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