THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS. ETSI All rights reserved

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1 THE ROLE OF STANDARDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI Director General for WTC 2012, 4-7 March 2012, Japan

2 Social networks 2

3 and what about this one? 3

4 Go back in time for a moment 1900: telephone companies in US Islands of connectivity Geographical (national) monopolies for operators Operator provided the terminals, matched for his network Preferred (national) equipment provider built network to unique national characteristics Key characteristic of telephone type approval: impedance matching and switch manufacturer Impedance depended on average line length in each country Average line length depended on geography and urbanisation No real standardization inside networks 4

5 Standards existed For international interconnection: CCITT / ITU Building bridges between the islands 5

6 It really started in the 1980s Deregulation, liberalisation, privatisation, open market, competition 1982 in US: AT&T split into Baby Bells: deregulation and competition Europe: GSM license regime forced competition, new entrants Multiple operators required per country 1988: ETSI created to provide standards for open European market Standards for core network equipment market Standards for interconnection Standards for terminal equipment 6

7 Benefits of standards Lower development & production costs, enable specialisation and commoditisation Allow access to new markets Increase competition - good for the customer Give improved product confidence and Interop Encourage innovative cooperation Turn good ideas into commercial success 7

8 THE case study 8

9 Growth of telecoms access (fixed & mobile) Access paths (Millions) Total communication access paths* Fixed communication access paths** (*) Total communication access paths: Analogue lines + ISDN lines + DSL + cable modem + fibre + other + mobile (**) Fixed communication access paths: Analogue lines + ISDN lines + DSL + cable modem + other + fibre Source: OECD Communications Outlook 2011 [

10 Telecommunications industry revenue 1300 bn USD Source: OECD Communications Outlook 2009 [ 10

11 Number of deliverables Growth of ETSI & 3GPP standards PE Vote OAP MAP Publication

12 Importance of ICT to country wealth 1,0 % 0,9 0, (1) 0,7 0,6 0,5 0,4 0,3 0,2 0,1 0,0 Austria France Germany Italy Greece Ireland Finland Portugal Netherlands Spain New Zealand Japan Canada Belgium United Kingdom Denmark Sweden United States Australia Contributions of ICT investment to GDP growth, and , in percentage points (1) for Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand and Spain. Source: OECD Productivity Database, September 2005, [ 12

13 3G Standardization: Large-scale industrial project 3GPP: Third Generation Partnership Project Japan, Korea, China, US & Europe 6 standards bodies, c. 400 companies 17 working groups, 4 Plenary groups Meeting 4-8 times/year across the globe, 1 week meetings some delegates spend >3 months/year sitting in meetings! Up to 300 delegates, documents for EACH meeting Average delegate days per month in meetings 14 delegate centuries since creation of 3GPP in 1998 Approx specifications published each year And still growing... 13

14 AND there are ALSO other cases Some tested and developed (and huge success stories) DECT TETRA Ethernet TCP/IP IEEE x, 16x families And some more to come 14

15 M2M concept M2M Application Smart Metering ehealth Connected Consumer City Automation Automotive Client Application Smart Grid Core Networks 3GPP (GPRS, EPC) ETSI TISPAN ATTM NGN Service Capabilities M2M Core Access Networks xdsl Hybrid FiberCoax PLC Satellite GERAN, UTRAN, eutran WLAN SRDs UWB WiMAX DIRECT CONNEC T M2M Area Networks M2M Area Network PLC SRD DIRECT CONNEC UWB T ZigBee M-BUS Wireless M-BUS IEEE M2M Gateway

16 M2M standard arch. Rel. 1 M2M Device & Gateway Domain M2M Network Domain M2M Device M2M Gateway WIDE AREA NETWORK M2M App. Device Application (DA) Proprietary M2M Device dia M2M AREA NETWORK M2M App. dia M2M Gateway Service Capability (GSCL) M2M Device M2M App. dia WIRELESS MOBILE FIXED mid M2M Service Capabilities Layer (M2M NSCL) mia mia mia M2M Application M2M Application M2M Application REFERENCE POINTS M2M Device Service Capability (DSCL).. OTHER mid Network Application (NA) 16 16

17 STANDARDS IN THE CLOUD? 17

18 Telecoms networks as social networks? Hot news from Barcelona 18

19 However, what if......we didn t have open standards? 1 network 1 user/network interface specification 1 network 1 preferred terminal vendor App stores? Chipset price and miniaturisation? Handset size and price? Handset brand competition? No Sony, no Samsung, no HTC, no iphone in Europe! Colour displays? 19

20 THANK YOU! 20