Meeting this week at the ITU’s World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, some thirty Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) drafted a ‘Vision Statement’ outlining their thoughts on the future of communications. Some of the key messages from the joint statement included:
- growing confidence that the telecom industry is emerging from a “tough period”
- there exists a real “market” pull for new services driven by the convergence of information, computing and telecommunications.
- the ITU is in a key position to facilitate the move to a converged architecture through its role in setting global standards, however it must cooperate with other standards bodies.
- the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) should charter a group to develop a map of standards development across all industry forums.
CTOs present at the event were from Alcatel, Amena, Apnic, Belgacom, Broadcom, BT, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom, Coptac, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, ETRI, France Telecom, Huawei Technologies, IBM, Ikanos, Infineon, Intel, Korea Telecom, Lucent Technologies, Maltacom, Nokia, Nominum, Nortel Networks, NTT, NTT Comware, Orange, RAD Data Communications, Rostelcom, Samsung, Siemens, Softbank, Sotelma, Sun Microsystems, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, Thuraya, Vodafone and ZTE.
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