02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul 1 Rural areas communications access, terminals and home systems General ETSI activities overview SOURCE:ETSI, Chairman of the TC AT TITLE:Standardization activity on Rural areas communications access, terminals and home systems AGENDA ITEM:Joint GSTC/GSRC 4.4 [HIS 4] CONTACT:Nuno Encarnação, GSC9/JOINT-009

02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul2  Rural areas have 2 main characteristics  Long distance to main centres  Low density of users with a wide spectrum of requests  Most rural communications systems can be classified  Access systems, typically based on radio Due to the large costs of wired systems Lower costs and increasing capacity of present radio systems  Terminals and Home systems, playing increasingly a central role in rural areas to support Telecommunications Universal Service (e.g. voice telephony) A number of available video services (TV, other information) Remote assistance in different areas Introduction

02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul3  Terminals and Home systems in rural areas  The long distances to (non-Telecom) service centres create an additional justification for the use of (tele-) communication systems, e.g. emergency, medical, administration, tele-banking, cultural, social, commercial, newspapers, white goods, fire, police services used from remote sites  Rural Terminals and Home systems may (or not) need less broadband applications than business areas in urban centres but have a wider range of applications and urgent user’s social requests (service centres are farther than in urban areas) Terminals and Home Systems

02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul4  General information  Working Group AT-N works in  Wide scope initial work plan collects informationinitial work plan  New services and Home  Technology independent solutions  Home Network elements to inter-operate among them and with Telecom Networks & Services  All technologies (wire, wireless, access, home) beneficiate to coexist and be used at the best Home Networks, Home

02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul5 Home environment common items  Backwards compatibility with legacy systems  Backwards compatibility, support of legacy terminals features [TR series]  Maximise the usage of harmonised or converging solutions, e.g. interface offered for POTS [ES ]  Future oriented convergence with NGNs’ evolution  Improve inter-working among base technologies  Facilitate differentiation & universality of services & contents  Consider horizontal aspects  Regulatory framework on services & networks, terminals, etcframework terminals  Interoperability among different solutions  High QoS [Quality of Service], e.g. for Voice [EG ]QoS  Support to emergency situationsemergency situations  Security/ Data protection, Lawful Interception SecurityLawful Interception  EMC, safety EMCsafety

02/06/2015GSC-9, Seoul6  TR series (in development)  Will collect the maximum information  Co-operation with CENELEC, ITU-T & others  exist and is being intensified  E.g. Smart House aspects is one focus  Narrow Band and Broad Band web sites Narrow Band Broad Band  Offer a central point for information in these areas  Information on (wire-line) Access & Terminals  Common and general aspects:  Specific technology aspects: xDSL, BroadBandCableCom, Power LinexDSLBroadBandCableComPower Line –Note: ETSI deliverables can be downloaded free of charge from » Work in the Home environment