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26 November 2008 - HGI GIVES FULL SUPPORT TO THE IPTV WORLD FORUM ASIA
The HGI will be showing its support at next week’s IPTV
World Forum Asia, through an endorsement agreement with the
organizers, Informa.
The bespoke
event will take place from the 4th to
the 5th of December at the International
Convention & Exhibition Centre in Singapore.
Being Asia’s leading IPTV event, the Group was eager to
show its support at what is Asia’s
premier IPTV event, on an occasion where the region’s
leading operators, content owners and broadcasters joined
forces to discuss this year’s growth in broadband
subscribers and deployment rates.
18 November 2008 – HGI DISCUSSES SET-TOP-BOX EVOLUTION AT TelcoTv 2008
Last week’s TelcoTv proved to be a great platform for the
HGI to share its views on the role of home gateways in
delivering IPTV to the North American market, a region in
which they are rapidly constantly striving to increasinge
their presence.
Duncan Bees, the HGI’s CTO, took part in the panel
Set-Top Box Evolution:
Gateway to the Home? , outlining the role that home
gateways and set-top-boxes play in the IPTV arena and the
functionality issues in conecting the two.
Other participants on the high-profile panel included
Richard Brand Vice Chair from ATIS, Brian Feng Vice
President for the Key Account Business Unit at ZyXEL and
Mike Nawrocki Director of Standards at Verizon.
13 October 2008
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Home Gateway Initiative at Broadband World Forum Europe 2008
– Brussels.
The Broadband World Forum Europe proved to be a tremendous
success for the HGI.
Duncan Bees, the Groups’ CTO, took part in the panel
Service Assurance in the Home Network: the end-to-end
service view and its most critical component, where he
outlined the HGI specifications and service provider use
cases on delivering on service assurance via the Home
Gateway.
Corrado Rocca, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman
of the Marketing Committee for the Home Gateway Initiative,
and Senior Vice President for Product Marketing and
Development at Pirelli Broadband Solutions, also presented
during the event, taking part in the panel
Standardization Key to Broadband Success; his talk
highlighted the role of HGI within the broadband standards
landscape.
2 October 2008 -
HOME GATEWAY
INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES SoftAtHome AS NEW MEMBER
SoftatHome, a company created by Orange, Thomson and Sagem
Communications in February 2008, is the latest member to
join Home Gateway Initiative.
“We are delighted with the addition of SoftAtHome to the HGI
membership” said HGI chief technical officer, Duncan Bees.
“The excellent work that SoftAtHome are doing is in line
with HGI specifications and they have an innovative approach
to developing technologies for the broadband home.”
1 September 2008 – HGI MEMBER BASE
CONTINUES TO GROW -
The Home Gateway Initiative Group, after nearly four years,
boasts over 60 members.
read more...
SERVICE PROVIDERS AND
THE CONNECTED HOME SUMMIT, San Jose, 26 -27 August 2008 –
The HGI will be attending CABA’s Connected Home Council
Summit, hosted by Cisco Systems.
read more...
CONNECTIONS EUROPEAN
SUMMIT SERIES, Berlin, 29 August 2008 – The HGI will be
attending Park Associate’s event dedicated to the discussion
and analysis of new business models for emerging services,
applications and advanced digital technologies.
read more...
CONNECTIONS US, Santa Clara, June 2008 - The HGI will be
attending the premier digital living conference, hosted by
Parks Associates in partnership with the Consumer
Electronics Association.
read more...
May 2008 – The
HGI makes three new documents available to the Broadband
arena: Parental control, Remote Access and Performance
Metrics. The HGI has recognized the need to have a
number of ‘guideline’ documents that give additional
background to the requirements specified by the HGI
Residential Profile. These documents are
designed to help service providers better understand
requirements when designing a Home Gateway in line with HGI
recommendations.
The documents are now available to download from the
website:
http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/publis/index.html
May 2008 - The HGI makes
three new documents available to the Broadband arena:
Parental control, Remote Access and Performance Metrics....read
moreMay 2008. Renaming of the HGI document to the “Home Gateway Technical Requirements:
Residential Profile”.
The revised title change is now not only a precise
reflection of the document’s objectives, but also allows for
a more precise cross reference of it in other HGI documents.
http://www.homegateway.org/publis/HGI_V1.01_Residential.pdf
Brian Dolby, from
Casefile TV,
interviews Paolo Pastorino, Chief Technology
Officer of the HGI, at the IPTV World Forum (14 March 2008)
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http://www.satellite-evolution.com/TV/hgi.html.
CONNECTIONS EUROPE, Nice,
May 2008 (event postponed) -The HGI will be attending the
inaugural European Summit ran by Parks Associates...read
more
Florence will be hosting the 13th HGI meeting from the 27th
to the 30th May.
http://www.homegateway.org/meetings/TP_13_Florence/13_index.html
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