Home Gateway Initiative
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The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) is an open forum launched by a number of Telcos ( Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KPN, Teliasonera, NTT ,Telefonica, Telecom Italia) in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.In addition to Telcos, several manufacturers have joined the alliance. The HGI is a placewhere operators, content providers, service providers and manufacturers will discuss home gateway key specifications and standards.
HGI was formed to boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding members. The initiative will drive the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of services.
The goal of the HGI is to improve the interoperability of gateways with connected home devices throughout the EU and the rest of the world, as well as reducing the costs of home gateways to customers. The initiative will drive the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of services to the home and the market for home communications services will receive a major boost for the benefit of millions of broadband consumers. Main tasks undertaken are :
- To produce and downstream requirements for a residential gateway enabling end to end delivery of services.
- To establish technical and interoperability specifications and provide input to standardisation bodies
- To work with manufacturers in order to leverage volumes, to validate with manufacturer against uses cases and requirements, to ensure interoperability.
- The initiative will take as a basis the work undertaken within existing bodies (such as ITU H610, DSL forum, DLNA, OSGi Alliance ...) and will analyse gaps with respects to its requirements.
The goals are realised through the open international collaboration of all interested parties, on reasonable terms applied uniformly and openly. HGI is a not for profit organisation.
HGI will contribute to appropriate standards bodies and especially to an organization as the ITU-T.
