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The ITU conformity and interoperability (C&I) ITU standardization work on performance, quality of
programme is of particular value to developing
countries in their efforts to increase conformance
with ITU standards and benefit from the improved
interoperability that results from this conformance.
The new ITU- Conformance Assessment Steering Committee
(CASC) is establishing criteria, rules and procedures to
recognize Test Laboratories (TL) with competence in ITU-T
Recommendation(s) and register these in the ITU recognized
TL list.
ITU’s “ICT product conformity database” provides industry with
a means to publicize the conformance of ICT products and
services with ITU-T standards. The database assists buyers in
their efforts to select standards-compliant products. To date,
the database includes e-health devices found to comply with
ITU specifications for interoperable personal health systems;
mobile phones found to be compatible with Bluetooth-
enabled vehicle hands-free terminals by tests defined by ITU
standards; and Ethernet services found to comply with
ITU-standardized Ethernet service characteristics.
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service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) spans
the full spectrum of terminals, networks and services,
ranging from speech over fixed circuit-switched
networks to multimedia applications over mobile and
packet-based networks.
ITU standards work to achieve the end-to-end performance
levels required to support adequate QoS in a packet-based
environment characterized by a wide array of user applications.
New ITU-T standards in this domain include tools to monitor
the quality of IP-based video services and video streaming
over mobile-wireless networks; and the key factors influencing
end-to-end QoS with respect to voice communications over 4G
mobile networks.
ITU-T has also released a framework of Internet related
performance measurements, and is engaged in efforts to
develop standards for the conformity assessment of SIP-
IMS-based equipment on fixed networks and to broker the
international agreement of a framework for the interconnection
of Voice and Video over LTE (VoLTE/ViLTE)-based networks.