The Open IPTV Forum has published its first end-to-end Architecture specification, which is designed to allow any consumer end device, compliant to the spec, to access enriched and personalized IPTV services.
The architecture specification follows the first version of the Service and Platform Requirements document, for both Managed and Open Internet models, which the Forum released in autumn 2007.
The agreed Architecture specification can be downloaded from the Open IPTV Forum home page and the Service and Platform requirements via the publications area (http://www.openiptvforum.org/downloads.html).
The Open IPTV Forum has also extended its membership to 26, including Accenture, ANT Software Ltd, Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Quative - Kudelski Group, SES-Astra, Sharp Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Toshiba Corporation.
The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industry initiative which aims to produce end to end specifications for IPTV in order to bring next generation IPTV to the mass market.
The Foruma??s founding members are Ericsson, FT Group, Nokia Siemens, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony, and Telecom Italia.
