- Home Gateway Initiative
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) is nonprofit organization launched by a number of telephone companies (
Belgacom , BT,Deutsche Telekom ,France Telecom ,KPN ,Teliasonera ,NTT ,Telefonica ,Telecom Italia ) in December 2004 to provide a place where operators, content providers, service providers and manufacturers can discuss the key specifications and standards of home gateways. Several manufacturers have also joined the alliance.The HGI's aims include the following:
* Release specifications of the home gateway.
* Boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding members.
* Improve the interoperability of gateways with home devices.The initiative will build on the work of existing bodies (such as the ITU, Broadband forum, DLNA and OSGi Alliance) and will contribute to appropriate standards bodies such as the
ITU-T .External links
* [http://www.homegateway.org/ The home page of the forum]
* [http://www.itu.int/md/T05-FG.IPTV-OL-0011/en Cooperation between HGI and the ITU-T]Publications
* [http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/publis/HGI_V1.01_Residential.pdf Home Gateway Technical Requirements: Residential Profile Version 1.01 - 28 April 2008]
* [http://www.homegatewayinitiative.org/publis/HGI_V1.0.pdf Home Gateway Technical Requirements: Release 1 Version 1.0 - 1 July 2006] (obsolete)
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