THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI Director General for WTC 2012, 4-7 March 2012, Japan

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Social networks…

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… and what about this one?


Go back in time for a moment

1900: 20 000 telephone companies in US • Islands of connectivity

Geographical (national) monopolies for operators

Operator provided the terminals, matched for his network

Preferred (national) equipment provider built network to unique national characteristics

Key characteristic of telephone type approval: impedance matching and switch manufacturer • Impedance depended on average line length in each country

• Average line length depended on geography and urbanisation

No real standardization inside networks


Standards existed

For international interconnection: CCITT / ITU

Building bridges between the islands


It really started in the 1980s

Deregulation, liberalisation, privatisation, open market, competition

1982 in US: AT&T split into Baby Bells: deregulation and competition

Europe: GSM license regime forced competition, new entrants • Multiple operators required per country

1988: ETSI created to provide standards for open European market • Standards for core network equipment market

• Standards for interconnection

• Standards for terminal equipment


Benefits of standards

Lower development & production costs, enable specialisation and commoditisation

Allow access to new markets

Increase competition - good for the customer

Give improved product confidence and Interop

Encourage innovative cooperation

Turn good ideas into commercial success

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THE case study


Growth of telecoms access (fixed & mobile)

(*) Total communication access paths: Analogue lines + ISDN lines + DSL + cable modem + fibre + other + mobile

(**) Fixed communication access paths: Analogue lines + ISDN lines + DSL + cable modem + other + fibre

Source: OECD Communications Outlook 2011 [www.oecd.org/sti/telecom/outlook] © ETSI 2012. All rights reserved 9

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Telecommunications industry revenue

Source: OECD Communications Outlook 2009 [www.oecd.org/sti/telecom/outlook]


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Source: OECD Productivity Database, September 2005, [www.oecd.org/statistics/productivity]


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3G Standardization: Large-scale industrial project

3GPP: Third Generation Partnership Project • Japan, Korea, China, US & Europe

• 6 standards bodies, c. 400 companies

17 working groups, 4 Plenary groups

Meeting 4-8 times/year across the globe, 1 week meetings • some delegates spend >3 months/year sitting in meetings!

Up to 300 delegates, 1 000 documents for EACH meeting

Average 4 000 delegate days per month in meetings

14 delegate centuries since creation of 3GPP in 1998

Approx 2 000 specifications published each year

And still growing...


AND there are ALSO other cases…

Some tested and developed (and huge success stories)

• DECT

• TETRA

• Ethernet

• TCP/IP

• IEEE 802.11x, 16x families

• …

And some more to come…


M2M “concept”


M2M

Gateway

Client

Application

M2M Application M2M Area Network

Service

Capabilities

M2M

Core

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M2M Area Networks

• PLC

• SRD

• UWB

• ZigBee

• M-BUS

• Wireless M-BUS

• IEEE 802.15

Core Networks

• 3GPP (GPRS, EPC)

• ETSI TISPAN

• ATTM

• NGN

Access Networks

• xDSL

• Hybrid FiberCoax

• PLC

• Satellite

• GERAN, UTRAN, eUTRAN

• WLAN

• SRDs

• UWB

• WiMAX

Smart Metering

eHealth

Connected

Consumer

City Automation

Automotive

Smart Grid

M2M standard arch. Rel. 1


M2M Service

Capabilities

Layer (M2M

NSCL)

M2M Gateway M2M Device

M2M Device

Service

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M2M Device

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M2M Network Domain M2M Device & Gateway Domain

REFERENCE POINTS

Network Application

(NA)

Device Application

(DA)

STANDARDS IN THE CLOUD?


Telecoms networks as social networks?

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However, what if...

...we didn’t have open standards?

• 1 network – 1 user/network interface specification

• 1 network – 1 preferred terminal vendor

App stores?

Chipset price and miniaturisation?

Handset size and price?

Handset brand competition? • No Sony, no Samsung, no HTC, no iPhone in Europe!

Colour displays?


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