ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) Headlines Technical Presentations at ATIS Booth #1655 at NXTcomm 2007

ATIS Forum is Building Needed Standards to Support Entire IPTV Ecosytem

June 13, 2007, Washington, DC – ATIS announced today that it will offer a series of technical presentations on the work of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF), recognized globally as the lead developer of industry standards and specifications for IPTV services. The presentations will take place in booth #1655 at NXTcomm 2007 from June 19-20 at McCormick Place Convention Center, South Building, in Chicago.

“The ATIS IIF is pleased that its work is being featured as a part of NXTcomm 2007. The presentations will share with the industry the IIF’s successful activities designed to produce an end-to-end solution for IPTV,” said IIF Chairman, Daniel O’Callaghan of Verizon.

Active participants in the ATIS IIF include Alcatel-Lucent, Widevine Technologies, LG Electronics, Telchemy, Digital Fountain, Huawei, Rogers Wireless, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, AT&T, British Telecom, Nortel, Cisco and Microsoft, among numerous others.

“We have been very successful in attracting companies to participate in the ATIS IIF that represent every angle of the entire IPTV ecosystem – from the network operator, to the network equipment and set-top box manufacturers, to the middleware solutions provider, and the content providers,” said ATIS President and CEO Susan M. Miller. “Together, we are making enormous strides and delivering standards that will support successful deployment of IPTV and the unique and interactive entertainment experience that IPTV promises to deliver.”

The IIF has completed the following standards and specifications to-date:

• IPTV Architecture Roadmap (ATIS-0800003). The Roadmap prioritizes and scopes needed specification development efforts based on ATIS IIF’s IPTV Architecture Requirements (ATIS-0800002) released in June 2006.
• The IPTV High Level Architecture Standard, (ATIS-0800007). This ATIS standard provides a high-level architectural framework to enable end-to-end systems’ implementation and interoperability for the supporting network design. It serves as a reference architecture for IPTV functional specifications being developed by the IIF.
• The IIF Default Scrambling Algorithm – IPTV Interoperability Specification (IDSA), (ATIS Standard 0800006). This newly released standard specifies a default scrambling/de-scrambling algorithm for the MPEG-2 Transport Stream and scrambling algorithm signaling.
• IPTV DRM Interoperability Requirements (ATIS-0800001). This ATIS standard defines the requirements for the interoperability of systems and components in the IPTV DRM/security environment.
• A Framework for QoS Metrics and Measurements Supporting IPTV Services ( ATIS-0800004) . This document provides an initial industry consensus view of scope, definitions, and tools to support the creation of IPTV Quality of Service (QoS) metrics and measurements within ATIS IIF.

For a listing of IPTV presentations from representatives of the ATIS IIF, as well as other technical presentations taking place in the ATIS booth (#1655) at NXTcomm 2007 visit http://www.techthink.org/docs/booth.pdf

About the ATIS IIF

More than 50 ATIS member companies are actively engaged in ATIS’ IPTV standardization efforts through the IIF. More than 50 ATIS member companies are actively engaged in ATIS' IPTV standardizations efforts through the ATIS IIF including Verizon, Qwest, AT&T, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Cisco, Motorola, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Mictrosystems, among others. The ATIS IIF was formed at the recommendation of an IPTV Exploratory Group to the ATIS Board of Directors. For more information about the ATIS IIF, visit www.atis.org/iif. ATIS IIF documents are available in the ATIS Document Center at https://www.atis.org/docstore/default.aspx.

About ATIS

ATIS is a leading standards development and technical planning organization committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees, Incubator Solutions Programs, and other activities. www.atis.org