ITU Update Reinhard Scholl, ITU Document No: GSC(14)18_029 Source: ITU Contact: Reinhard Scholl Agenda Item: 2.6 ITU Update Reinhard Scholl, ITU GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis High Efficiency Video Coding Video uses more than half of bandwidth use New ITU-T H.265 will ease pressure on global networks Succeeds 10-year old Prime-time Emmy award winner ITU-T H.264 (accounts for 80% of web video) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis …breathing new life into old infrastructure High speed over long distances Type ITU-T Initial approval Max down HDSL G.991.1 1998 2 Mbps ADSL G.992.1 1999 SHDSL G.991.2 2001 ADSL2 G.992.3 2002 VDSL G.993.1 2004 VDSL2 G.993.2 2006 100 Mbps G.fast [2013] 1 Gbps Type ITU-T Initial approval Max down BPON G.983 1998 622 Mbps GPON G.984 2003 2.5 Gbps XG-PON G.987 2010 10 Gbps NG-PON2 G.989 2013 40 Gbps GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Connecting medics with patient data ITU’s Personal Health Care Standards: ITU-T H.810 (based on Continua Health Alliance) Gives interoperability guidelines for personal health systems 32 new testing specifications for devices to be tested for conformance to the standard GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Flight data monitoring “I believe that data from aircraft, including from the black box could be continuously transmitted and stored in data centres on the ground” Expert dialogue on real-time monitoring of flight data: Malaysia, May 2014 ITU-T Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring: created June 2014 1st meeting: 1-3 Dec 2014 H.E. Ahmad Shabery Cheek, Minister for Communications and Multimedia, Malaysia” GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Promote adoption of mobile money 2.5 billion adults have no access to bank accounts Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation proposed: Focus Group on Digital Financial Services to promote financial inclusion using ICTs created June 2014 1st meeting 4Q/2014 GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis IMT for 2020 and beyond With IMT-Advanced systems now starting to be deployed attention is now focused on enabling a seamlessly connected society in the 2020 timeframe - people along with things, data, applications, transport systems and cities in a smart networked communications environment. The detailed investigation of the key elements of “5G” are underway in ITU-R, once again using the highly successful partnership ITU-R has with the mobile broadband industry and the wide range of stakeholders in the “5G” community.  ITU expects to finalize the “Framework and overall objectives of the future development of IMT for 2020 and beyond” by the end of 2015. GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis ICTs and vehicles Future Networked Car event & Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards: Car and ICT industries working together to forge new era of personal transport Performance assessment of mobile phones connected to hands-free systems in vehicles: Geneva, May 2014 GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Smarter processes Multi-stakeholder ITU-led effort to improve the efficiency of city operations and water management Smart Sustainable Cities: Focus Group and events held in a range of countries Smart Water: Focus Group and new joint report with UNESCO GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

New green ICT standards ITU-T L.1410 aligned with ETSI lifecycle assessment methodology: collaboration with ETSI planned on all methodologies to assess eco-impact of ICT New universal charger for laptops and other portable devices approved Standard for green batteries approved GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Bridging the standardization gap First e-learning course: ITU-T working methods Mentoring programme for new delegates Remote participation to each Question meeting during a study group meeting 1300 (!) e-meetings in 2013 New guidelines on establishing a National Standardization Secretariat Interpretation of plenaries Translation of ITU-T Recommendations Fellowship programme GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Standards in academia Kaleidoscope brings academia and industry together: 2014 St Petersburg event, 98 submissions from 39 countries Academia membership category great success – 63 total (45 ITU-T members) Ad hoc Group on Standards Education is advancing education on standardization GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Intellectual Property Rights Common Patent Policy: ITU/ISO/IEC Current litigation on standard essential patents (SEPs) led to ITU Patent Roundtable 2012 and accelerated series of meetings Publication 1 July 2014 (left) explains contemporary tensions and conflicts surrounding inclusion of patented technology in standards GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Strategic Direction ITU: Develop international standards Bridge the Standardization Gap Collaborate Convergence is the challenge: traditional demarcation between the work of different standards bodies is becoming blurred ICT is everywhere: how to work with “vertical sectors”? ITU-T Review Committee: Strategic and structural review of ITU-T GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis