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Foreword

The 2013-2016 study period has seen key results achieved in
standardization areas characterized by ITU leadership, and ITU members
have taken bold steps towards ensuring that ITU-T is well-positioned to
serve emerging standardization demands. WTSA-16 will consolidate the
progress that we achieved over the past four years, refining the strategic
direction and structure of ITU-T to support the next phase of innovation in
information and communication technology (ICT).

ITU leadership in standardization for an
interconnected world
ITU-T is a renowned centre of excellence in standardization for transport
and access technologies. ITU members have completed a set of highly
anticipated broadband access technologies in G.fast, a new broadband
standard capable of achieving up to 2 Gbit/s access speeds over
traditional telephone wires; as well as 40-Gigabit-capable Fibre to the
Home, the first series of standards to provide fibre-optic access speeds
beyond 10 Gbit/s. ITU members also boast a major recent achievement
in the revision of a key ITU standard underlying the Optical Transport
Network, concluding a three-year process to enable optical transport at
rates higher than 100 Gbit/s.

ITU H.265 ‘High Efficiency Video Coding’ – the successor to the Primetime
Emmy award-winning ITU H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ – offers double
the compression power of H.264 to provide the platform for the next
decade of innovation in video. A new standard defining the requirements
for high-quality 4G mobile communications has joined ITU’s portfolio of

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