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Royalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video
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MPEG Licensing Authority has decided to extend royalty-free licensing to end-users of the H.264 video codec (known as "Internet Broadcast AVC Video") during the entire life of this License. MPEG LA previously announced it would not charge royalties for such video through December 31, 2015.

MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License provides access to essential patent rights for the AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) digital video coding standard.

In addition to Internet Broadcast AVC Video, MPEG LA's AVC Patent Portfolio License provides coverage for devices that decode and encode AVC video, AVC video sold to end users for a fee on a title or subscription basis and free television video services. AVC video is used in set-top boxes, media player and other personal computer software, mobile devices including telephones and mobile television receivers, Blu-ray Disc™ players and recorders, Blu-ray video optical discs, game machines, personal media player devices and still and video cameras.
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HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline
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The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced major advancements by its Technical Working Group (TWG) on the HomePlug AV2 specification, which will be fully interoperable with current HomePlug AV and future HomePlug Green PHY and IEEE 1901 products.

Key powerline enhancements the TWG selected for inclusion in the developing HomePlug AV2 specification include:

  • MIMO (Multiple-Inputs Multiple-Outputs) offers significant increases in link throughput and range without requiring additional spectrum or transmit power. MIMO allows the data signal to propagate from multiple outputs to multiple inputs implementing advanced transmission coding schemes which will increase capacity and enable more reliable and expanded home coverage. This is similar to the 802.11n and 802.16e which use MIMO solutions with wireless products to extend performance.
  • Increased MAC (Medium Access Control) efficiencies that lower overhead and expand throughput.
  • Increased operating spectrum: the specification will expand operations into an additional spectrum, up to an order of magnitude beyond current powerline technology. This increased bandwidth will further improve performance.
  • Extending coverage via repeating and routing technology in networks of three or more nodes
. The HomePlug AV2 specification is expected to deliver a 5x increase in performance over current HomePlug AV solutions at the application layer to offer significant improvements in whole home coverage to guarantee reliable delivery of throughput intensive applications such as multiple streams of 1080p HD video (and emerging 3D and 4K HD) broadband Internet, Internet gaming and security camera video over existing electrical wiring. These advancements are necessary to meet the increasingly demanding Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements of service providers and consumer electronics companies. ...  > More

 
Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course
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The Wholesale Applications Community, which was formed earlier this year by global telecommunications operators looking to build an open alternative Apple's iTunes and similar storefronts, has taken its first steps. The initiative has formally registered as a not-for-profit corporate entity based in the UK, named a prestigious board of directors, and joined forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL). Peters Suh has been named the CEO of the Wholesale Applications Community. Most recently Peters was the CEO of the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), a joint venture between China Mobile, SOFTBANK MOBILE, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone. Prior to JIL, Peters held a number of executive positions at Vodafone, Fremont Communications and AirTouch. The company announced that Michel Combes, Vodafone Chief Executive Europe has been elected Chairman of the Wholesale Applications Community, and Jean-Philippe Vanot, Deputy CEO, France Telecom has been named as Vice Chairman. In addition to Combes and Vanot, the WAC board of directors includes:

  • John Donovan, CTO, AT&T
  • Li Zhengmao, VP, China Mobile
  • Olivier Baujard, CTO Deutsche Telekom
  • Alex Sinclair, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, GSMA
  • Dr Hyun-Myung PYO, President of Mobile Business Group, KT Corporation
  • Dr Kiyohito Nagata, SVP, NTT DOCOMO
  • Sung Min Ha, President Mobile Network Operation Business Unit, SK Telecom
  • Napoleon Nazareno, President and CEO, Smart Communications
  • Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Senior Executive Vice President, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.
  • Marco Patuano, Head of Domestic Market Operations, Telecom Italia
  • Vivek Dev, Group Director of Global New Services, Telefónica
  • Dr. Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO, Telekom Austria Group
  • Morten-Karlsen Sorby, EVP and Head of Corporate Development, Telenor
  • Dick Lynch, EVP and CTO, Verizon
WAC aims to establish wholesale applications ecosystem that provides a simple route to market for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications and services. Network operators would be able to distribute applications through their respective application storefronts and charge users through their existing phone bill. In this model, developers will set the application price and will receive a revenue share for the transaction. The revenue share will be defined on an operator-by-operator basis.

WAC aims to publish its initial specification and components of its SDK to developers in November. This specification will be based on W3C standards and create a strong platform for developing rich mobile web applications. WAC will also provide backwards compatibility for devices based upon the current JIL and BONDI specifications.
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OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0
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OpenSAF announced the public availability of Release 4.0 of its high availability (HA) middleware platform. OpenSAF Release 4.0 implements all major functions of the Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification and includes important enhancements to improve scalability as well as hardware and software management.

"With Release 4.0, OpenSAF has reached a level of maturity that will broaden its reach and cross-industry impact," said Monica Hatlen of Ericsson, President of the OpenSAF Foundation. "Release 4.0 in many ways fulfills the vision of the initial OpenSAF community when the project was created, and we are proud to offer it to the world. It delivers a cost-effective, standards-based way to create highly available and reliable networks, and its new management features take a big step toward solving larger problems, including network saturation from increased smartphone use. Consumers also will reap this benefit as mobile traffic continues to grow."

OpenSAF is an open source community focused on developing HA middleware consistent with SA Forum specifications. The group said its OpenSAF code base has re-architected to be much more modular, so that users can now build and install only the features they want, reducing the overhead of maintaining unneeded services. Release 4.0 is the first implementation in the industry of the SA Forum Software Management Framework (SMF), which enables users to upgrade – or roll back -- application software from one deployment configuration to another, seamlessly, without affecting service availability. SMF represents the first real industry effort at standardizing a software management interface, and it offers great potential benefits to users who have had to create and maintain proprietary implementations.

Other key enhancements include implementation of the SA Forum's new Platform Layer Management (PLM) service, which provides hardware abstraction to ease the management of supporting multiple hardware architectures and facilitates virtualization. This can significantly increase scalability and thus the overall usage and ROI of OpenSAF on multiple platforms, within an organization. Release 4.0 also has a number of logging, tracing and debugging enhancements.
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ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification
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ZyXEL Communications' VDSL CPE/IAD products have been certified for IPv6 Ready Logo Phase II by the IPv6 Forum. This makes ZyXEL the world's first vendor to receive an IPv6 Ready Logo Phase II certification for VDSL CPE/IAD products in the market....  > More

Royalty-Free End-User Licensing for H.264 AVC Internet Video 8/27/2010
HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline 7/28/2010
Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course 7/27/2010
OpenSAF Announces High Availability Middleware Release 4.0 7/27/2010
ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification 7/21/2010
Vendors back POLQA -- Mobile Voice Quality Testing Standard 7/16/2010
OIF Finalizes IAs for 100G Modules and Control Plane Logging/Auditing 7/14/2010
Alvarion to Support TDD-LTE 7/13/2010
Internet2 Appoints Dave Lambert as CEO 7/8/2010
Bluetooth Adopts Low Energy Spec for Wireless Sensors 7/7/2010
WiMAX Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard 6/17/2010
HomeGrid Forum Partners with BroadBand Forum 6/15/2010
HomePlug Powerline Alliance’s Green PHY Spec for Smart Grid Published 6/14/2010
ITU Approves G.hn as Global Standard for Wired Home Networking 6/11/2010
Eight Silicon Vendors Back G.hn 6/11/2010
MultiService Forum Completes EPC Interoperability Testing 6/10/2010
Broadband Forum Targets Next Generation Access (NGA) 6/8/2010
Silicon Vendors Form Linaro to Promote Linux Devices 6/3/2010
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