The Open IPTV Forum--an industry group that is attempting to bring together telcos, consumer electronics manufacturers, and network infrastructure providers, in order to develop specifications for an open, end-to-end solution that will facilitate development and deployment of interactive, personalized IPTV services (note: the organization, whose founding members include Ericsson, FT Group, Nokia Siemens, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Telecom Italia, recently published the Architecture Specification for IPTV infrastructure elements and services to be included in Release 2 of its OIPF Specifications--see the article published on itvt.com, September 8th)--said Monday that Cisco, SmartLabs and Bouygues Telecom have become its newest members.
SmartLabs, which is based in Russia, offers service delivery platforms for interactive TV (including IPTV, DVB, hybrid, satellite and Internet TV), and client applications and user interfaces for set-top boxes. Bouygues Telecom is a French quad-play (mobile, fixed, Internet and TV) provider which claims to have over 9.7 million customers. "The addition of Cisco and Russian technology provider, SmartLabs, strengthens our representation in the important North American and Russian markets respectively, while French operator, Bouygues Telecom, continues to reinforce the relevance of the Forum in one of Europe's most vibrant and competitive IPTV markets," OIPF chair, Yun Chao Hu, said in a prepared statement. "It is very pleasing that the Forum membership includes an ever-increasing number of the world's most influential IPTV stakeholders, highlighting the desirability of standardized mass-market IPTV and throwing a sharp focus on the OIPF efforts to achieve this."
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