International Telecommunication Union ITU-T

The IPTV standardization activities in China

Duo LIU CATR，MII The Vice chairman of Network and Switch TC in CCSA The group leader of the international standards activities on IPTV

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Content ITU-T

o IPTV Standardization requirement in China o China IPTV Standards organization

• IPTV special group o China IPTV Standards plan o China IPTV Standards approved o China IPTV Standards under study

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Standardization requirement in China ITU-T

o The IPTV service is a hot service in China o Both the telecommunication and

broadcasting operators are interested in it o Some trials and commercial systems are launched by using one vendor’ system o No standards are available for the market • To define the requirement and architecture • To define the interoperability requirement • To study the potential security issue ITU-T IPTV Global Technical Workshop Seoul, Korea, 12-13 October 2006 3

China IPTV Standards organization ITU-T

o CCSA

• China communication standards Association • 9 Technical committees • 180 members —Operators —Institutes —Manufactures —Universities ITU-T IPTV Global Technical Workshop Seoul, Korea, 12-13 October 2006 4

CCSA structure ITU-T

General Assembly

Council Advisory Committee IP and Multimedia Technical Committee Network and Switching Technical Committee

Secretariat

Wireless Communication Technical Committee

General Office

Transport and access network Technical Committee

Network Management Technical Committee Communication Power Supply Technical Committee

Communications Security Technical Committee

Mobile Internet Protocol Special Group

Technology Department Planning and Development Department Standardization-Promoting Department

Electromagnetic Environment Influence and Safeguard

IPTV special group

IPTV Special Group

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IPTV Special Group ITU-T

o It is established under the IP and

Multimedia TC in CCSA on 8th Oct. 2005 o Members • Institute — CATR, MII

• Operators — China Telecom — China Netcom

• Manufactures — ZTE — Huawei Technology — UT Starcom — ShangHai Bell Alcatel — FengHuo Technology — SCNB ITU-T IPTV Global Technical Workshop Seoul, Korea, 12-13 October 2006 6

IPTV Special Group ITU-T

o 2006-5-10 • IPTV international contributions sub-group is established under IPTV special working group • In charge of collaborations with international standards o 2006-5-19 • IPTV Coordination working group under CCSA • In charge of coordination with other TCs in CCSA

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IPTV standards plan ITU-T

IPTV standards requirement architecture

Service scenario

Network

security

codec

equipment

Broadcast TV

access network

architecture

video

VOD

bearer network

Content security

audio

Time shifting

delivery network

interoperability

Different Servers and platforms

Interface And Protocol Between Nodes

End system DRM

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6 specifications were approved ITU-T

o Service requirements o Architecture o The technical requirement of STB o The Interface requirement between STB and

service platform o The Interface requirement between service platform and content platform o The requirement on the access network

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IPTV Service requirements ITU-T o

Definition • IPTV is a QoS guaranteed and secure audio/video service service. These services are displayed or played on the different terminals. The bearer network is IP.

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Service • Basic service — Broadcasting TV — VoD

• Extended service — Time shifting TV — PVR

• Application service — — — — — — —

Information Gaming E-Commerce Tele-education Retrieving Communication Service management ITU-T IPTV Global Technical Workshop Seoul, Korea, 12-13 October 2006 10

IPTV architecture ITU-T

Information flow

Content Provision

C

Functional architecture

B1 End User Command System

B2

Service Operation

D

E1 F1 F2

Content Source

E2

A

E3

Media Distribution & Delivery

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The specifications under study ITU-T

o The technical requirement on bearer network o The media delivery part architecture • CDN • P2P o Security architecture • Content security • DRM o Codec o Middleware o Network management ITU-T IPTV Global Technical Workshop Seoul, Korea, 12-13 October 2006 12

ITU-T

Thank you for your attention

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