Meeting of Working Parties 1, 2, 3 & 4/11

Geneva, 28 January 2010 PM

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ITU-T Workshop on "The impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the work of the ITU-T"

Geneva, 2 November 2009

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Meeting of FG-FN - Focus Group on Future Networks

Salt Lake City, USA, 16-20 November 2009

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Meeting of ITU-T SG 12 - Performance, QoS and QoE

Geneva, 3-12 November 2009

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Meeting of ITU-T SG 9 - Television and sound transmission and integrated broadband cable networks

Geneva, 26-30 October 2009

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Meeting of ITU-T SG 16 - Multimedia coding, systems and applications

Geneva, 26 October - 06 November 2009

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Meeting of IPTV-GSI - IPTV Global Standards Initiative

Geneva, 26-30 October 2009

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Meeting of JCA-NID - Joint Coordination Activity on Network Aspects of Identification Systems (including RFID)

Geneva, 26-27 October 2009

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One-size-fits-all solution will dramatically cut waste and GHG emissions. "ICTs are an essential element of an effective Copenhagen climate agreement," says Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré

Geneva, 22 October 2009 — ITU has given its stamp of approval to an energy-efficient one-charger-fits-all new mobile phone solution. The announcement comes as ITU lobbies hard to have the essential role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) recognized in the draft Copenhagen Agreement as a key part of the solution towards mitigating climate change.

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ITU voice coding and home networking articles published by IEEE

The latest IEEE Communications Magazine (subscription needed) contains a special feature on ITU-T Coders For Wideband, Superwideband, and Fullband Speech Communication. In addition the issue contains an overview of the new G.hn home networking standard from ITU.

The feature is part of a formalised cooperation between the standardization sector of ITU (ITU-T) and IEEE Communications Society. Also published recently are the best papers from the first Kaleidoscope academic conference.

The articles on speech coding:

• ITU-T G.711.1: Extending G.711 to Higher-Quality Wideband Speech
  
  
• ITU-T G.718: A New Embedded Speech and Audio Coding Standard with High Resilience to Error-Prone Transmission Channels
  
  
• ITU-T G.719: The First ITU-T Standard for High-Quality Conversational Fullband Audio Coding
  
  
• ITU-T G.729.1 Scalable Codec for New Wideband Services
  
  

G.hn standard for wired home networking gets international approval

Geneva, 15 October 2009 — ITU has approved a cutting-edge technical standard that will usher in new era in ‘smart home’ networking systems and applications. Called ‘G.hn’, the new standard will enable service providers to deploy new offerings, including High Definition TV (HDTV) and digital Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), more cost effectively. It will also allow consumer electronics manufacturers to seamlessly network all types of home entertainment, home automation and home security products, and greatly simplify consumers’ purchasing and installation processes.

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