HGI Board         Working groups

The Home Gateway Initiative is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.In addition to Telcos, several manufacturers have joined the alliance. See: http://www.homegateway.org/aboutus/memberslist.html.

HGI was formed to boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding members. The initiative will drive the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of services.

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The goals of the initiative are:

To produce and downstream requirements for a residential gateway enabling end to end delivery of services.

To work with manufacturers in order to leverage volumes, to validate with manufacturer against uses cases and requirements, to ensure interoperability.

The initiative will take as a basis the work undertaken within existing bodies (such as ITU H610, DSL forum, DLNA, OSGi Alliance ...) and will analyse gaps with respects to its requirements.

The goals are realised through the open international collaboration of all interested parties, on reasonable terms applied uniformly and openly. HGI is a not for profit organisation.

HGI will contribute to appropriate standards bodies and especially to an organization as the ITU-T.


Board

HGI Board Restricted Area

Description of board and organization

Chairman Christian Jacquenet France Telecom

Vice Chairman Treasurer Jose Maria Montero Telefonica

Secretary Bob Bissell British Telecom		Bernard Dugerdil Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.		Heather Kirksey Motive, Inc.
Corrado Rocca Pirelli Broadband Solutions		Hans Werner Bitzer Deutsche Telekom

CTO & CBO

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Business Officer
Paolo Pastorino

Working Groups Organization and responsibilities

Business group

Chairpersons:

Philippe Calvet, France Telecom.

Co-chair:

          Nobuo Fujii, NTT.

Objectives:

Starting from the base assumption of providing support to an enhanced and future proof multiple-play scenario, the Business Group will produce high level technical requirements for gateway, the home environment and the impact on the access network through interaction between operators and manufacturers to be passed as input to the technical working group.

Home Gateway Architecture and Security

Chairperson:

Luca Giacomello, Telecom Italia.

Deputy Chairperson (for the Home Gateway Architecture):

 Olaf Bigalke, Siemens.

Deputy Chairperson (for the Home Network Architecture):

Tom Suters, Philips.

Objectives:

The goal of the Gateway and Network Architecture working groups are:

• to define the HW/SW architecture and requirements for a cost effective, flexible, future-proof Home Gateway supporting advanced multiple play services (e.g. Internet surfing, multimedia entertainment, fixed-mobile convergence, advanced communication services, home control).