DECT Forum India has been established in June 2009. Mr. S.S. Motial who has attended the DECT CAT-iq World Conference in Amsterdam heads the DECT Forum India as its Chairman. In his presentation to the audience of the conference he exposed the main objectives of the DECT Forum efforts and recent activities in India:

• Promote and ensure awareness of DECT, CAT-iq, DECT WLL advantages and benefits to telecommunication users, operators, manufacturers and regulators.
• Convince the telecommunication regulators to grant and maintain spectrum for DECT, CAT-iq and DECT WLL standards and technology. 
• Sensitizing the regulator and WPC (National Frequency Allocation Plan) for de-licensing the frequency band for DECT. DFI has made numerous interactions, e.g. concept paper on spectrum allocation for TRAI. 
• Approach of DFI representatives to the Indian Government on lowering of tax and duties for cordless devices.

 

 

DECT Forum India is looking for further support from the industry. Interested parties should become a member of DECT Forum India (small and feasible membership fee) with the aim to support the Chairman and give DFI a strong voice towards local institutions in a very interesting and promising market. Mr. Motial's presentation, which gives an excellent overview of demographics and economic fundamentals in India can be downloaded from the DECT Forum website (www.dect.org).

The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home and enterprise communication industry, is pleased to host the first CAT-iq Developer Conference in Sophia Antipolis (France) from October 22-23, 2009. The online registration for this DECT Forum event in collaboration with ETSI/Forapolis and Jakajima is open now. Please visit the dedicated website at www.catiqdeveloperconference.org and read more about benefits for delegates, speakers, sponsorship and exhibition, and high-level networking opportunities.

The CAT-iq Developer Conference 2009 is mainly focused on technical aspects of the CAT-iq technology and standard, and is targeted to hardware/software developers and engineers but also to interested marketing and business development representatives of the industry. The conference agenda covers two main areas related to the latest CAT-iq development: the standardization and certification of CAT-iq products, new markets and applications for future CAT-iq devices. Delegates of the conference will learn more about the latest design and deployment of CAT-iq profiles 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, about platforms, reference systems, and test tools, about software environment and support and will get an outlook into CAT-iq future scenarios.

For more information about the conference program, registration and pricing, sponsoring and promotion opportunities, and the networking event at the first day of the conference, please visit the event site or contact the DECT Forum Secretariat directly.

About CAT-iq Certification Program
The CAT-iq certification program promotes CAT-iq to market stakeholders as a technically credible implementation of conformity to a set of standards that will add value to their industry/lives. It ensures interoperability of devices from multiple manufacturers for functionalities defined in CAT-iq. Furthermore the certification program ensures a mandatory level of quality requirement for specific product parameters to achieve consistent user experience of the different stakeholders. All manufacturers, test houses, certification laboratories, and further interested companies, who intent to test and certify CAT-iq devices, will be able to purchase the certification test equipment.

CAT-iq is a registered trademark (in 47 countries worldwide) owned by the DECT Forum, it references features and procedures to corresponding ETSI specifications. Only end products can be approved through the certification program (fixed part and/or portable part). Application for CAT-iq certification is restricted to Full members of the DECT Forum. Please find an overview of the CAT-iq certification program at the site.

About DECT Forum
The DECT Forum is the international industry association of the home and enterprise communication industry. With more than 800 million devices sold and growing by more than 80 million devices per year, DECT, DECT 6.0 and CAT-iq are worldwide-adopted technologies with high relevance for wireless voice and broadband home and enterprise communication. The DECT Forum is located in Berne, Switzerland. Full members of the DECT Forum are currently: Ascom, AVM, CCT, Deutsche Telekom, DSP Group, Gigaset Communications, GN Netcom, Infineon, Panasonic, Philips, Plantronics, Polycom, RTX, Sagem, SiTel, SGW Electronics, Snom, Swissvoice, Thomson, Uniden, Vtech.
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www.cat-iq.org

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CAT-iq and CAT-iq products are more and more influencing the communication market. Staying abreast of the challenges and opportunities caused by this change the DECT Forum will organize a CAT-iq Developer Conference mainly focused on technical topics addressing developers (HW/SW) and engineers but also interested representatives from marketing and business development to accelerate development and deployment of powerful, new CAT-iq systems and products and to gain ideas for new opportunities beyond voice.

The CAT-iq Developer Conference will take place:
- on October 22/23, 2009
- in Sophia Antipolis, France (ETSI premises)

Aim of the CAT-iq Developer Conference
Conference aim is to bring together all interested representatives of CAT-iq technology,
CAT-iq infrastructure and its applications in order to improve mutual awareness, tackling technical challenges by looking for the right questions and answers, discussing efficient and innovative solutions and furthermore having an outlook into the future.

12-15 presentations (30 min. plus Q&A), a panel discussion and an exhibition area will concentrate on topics of interest related to different CAT-iq challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted, to the following:

• Introduction: CAT-iq profiles 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
• HW components (supplier and systems): chip-sets, platforms, reference systems, test-tools, development tools for enabling new products
• Software Components (supplier and systems): support, API, which SW environment / operating system is supporting CAT-iq?
• CAT-iq Standardization (ETSI standards, associated test specification) and certification process, test equipment
• CAT-iq systems, building blocks
• Complexities around development of new software and hardware
• Lessons Learned - implementation examples (e.g. phones, digital picture frame, internet radio) 
• CAT-iq in the enterprise environment (use cases, challenges, specifics, future)
• CAT-iq in the US (FCC regulation) 
• CAT-iq ecosystem as mediator between CAT-iq platform and new applications
• Challenges for CAT-iq in new markets, e.g.
  • Smart metering
  • Home Automation, M2M
  • Entertainment
    

• Panel discussion: Quo Vadis CAT-iq – shall CAT-iq be extended to become a member of IMT advanced? operators’ view on CAT-iq

Contributions: Call for paper and panel discussion. We invite contributions from DECT Forum members, partners and other interested companies and associations with experience of, or interests in the different topics of interest. Submission categories include: abstract, presentation paper, HW/SW demonstrators (highly appreciated) and a poster (optional).

Instructions for abstract, presentation, posters and demonstrators:
The abstract as base for the submission of a paper should contain the title, author(s) name(s) and picture(s), email address of the corresponding author and the involved company (ies) followed by a short summary of not more than 250 words, which clearly summarizes the presentation paper and its key messages.  Additionally the abstract should roughly describe demonstrator material, which will be shown during the presentation and how it will be presented.

The presentation paper is based on Microsoft Powerpoint. It should contain 10 – 15 slides
(30 min. presentation plus Q&A) including title, author(s) name(s), company (ies) and an outline.
The poster (optional) should reflect title and key message(s) of the presentation. It will be presented in the exhibition area. The production of the poster (DIN A1) can be self-organized or ordered to a DF supplier (on own costs).

Contribution papers for the panel discussion should contain the speaker’s name and picture, email address of the speaker and the involved company (ies) and roughly describe the core statement (not more than 250 words). 
The abstracts will be made available on the conference homepage. The presentation paper will be made available for download for the participants after the conference.

Contributions can now be submitted by email to the the following address.

During the DECT Forum conference held in february 2009 the following presentation was given, about the future of CAT-iq.

 

Just open the link, and see what CAT-iq can mean for you, DF_CAT-iq Presentation_03132009.pdf (6.62 mb)

As CAT-iq is a new standard, many developers, business developers, marketeers, distributors and retailers don't know much about CAT-iq.

 

DECT Forum has therefore made a Question and Answers list. Just open this link, and your questions will be answered. DF_CAT-iq Questions&Answers_03132009.pdf (1.20 mb)

Total Telecom reported new statistics presented at Broadband Forum yesterday.

Fibre connections reach 50-million mark, but DSL is still the dominant access technology.
The number of broadband lines worldwide rose by 62.6 million during 2008 to reach 410.9 million by the end of the year.


New statistics announced by the Broadband Forum on Wednesday revealed that Latin America and Eastern Europe recorded the highest growth after their broadband connections rose by 7.55% and 6.22% respectively.


The figures provided by analyst firm Point Topic showed China had the highest number of broadband lines with 83.37 million by the fourth quarter, up from 66.56 million a year earlier. The U.S. and Japan came in at second and third.


Germany leads the European market with 23.43 million connections.
"Germany is still not a saturated market, it showed 15% year on year growth," commented Gavin Young, Broadband Forum technical committee chairperson.

Read the complete article.

The International Engineering Consortium’s (IEC) today announced Vivek Badrinath, executive vice president Networks and Carriers, Orange as World Forum Chair of the upcoming Broadband World Forum Europe 2009. He will also chair the plenary panel entitled “ Broadband Services Evolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Services Providers” featuring respected broadband leaders Matt Bross, chief technology officer, BT; Vicente San Miguel, chief technology officer, Telefónica S.A.; and Steve Pusey, chief technology officer, Vodafone.

“We look forward to Mr. Badrinath sharing his vision and headlining more than 250 highly regarded speakers in this year’s program in Paris,” commented IEC President John Janowiak. “Their commitment to the evolution of broadband services and continuing education certainly fall in line with the event’s mission to ‘deliver the promise’ of driving the industry forward.”

“The Broadband World Forum Europe hosts the most significant stakeholders in the global telecommunications industry, and I am honored to serve as the Conference Chair at this year’s event,” stated Mr. Badrinath. “The industry faces unique challenges in these times, and I look forward to exploring creative solutions and opportunities to advance the deployment of today’s evolving services.”

For the thirteenth time the DECT Forum held the international CAT-iq / DECT Conference. Amsterdam was, for the second time, the city where the conference took place.

This video gives a good overview of the conference.

It also shows the winners of the CAT-iq design competition;

• first price, Conrad Croencke
• second price, Werner Helmich
• runner up price, Joris Zaalberg

For more information about the design competition, go to the site.

 

The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, announces in its most recent market forecast a rapid growth of CAT-iq enabled gateways, reaching more than 65 million home gateways in 2012. The CAT-iq enabled handsets will follow a similar trend with a growth to 115 million devices by 2012.

 

CAT-iq, the global technology platform for wireless voice and light data communication, is the successor to the reliable DECT standard. CAT-iq is designed for the next generation of IP networks, operates in a protected frequency band, and is available in almost every region of the world.

 

The most important benefits of the CAT-iq technology are: superior telephony, full in-house IP connectivity, giving CD quality audio and radio, widescreen messaging, intelligent device management via remote control, energy saving plus real plug and play.
CAT-iq has been developed in particular to support the transformation of global telecommunication networks from the “Plain Old Telephony System” (POTS) to “All-IP” networks. The DECT Forum is aware of this massive
challenge since 1 billion fixed lines worldwide have to be transformed from POTS to All-IP. The transformation, which is already happening, will see its completion in some countries in 2010 and therefore the DECT Forum
expects that the deployment of CAT-iq will increase significantly from 2010.

 

The DECT Forum forecast acknowledges the growth of voice and data gateways, and foresees that cordless DECT phones will be replaced by CAT-iq handsets. Therefore, most future telephones will be CAT-iq enabled,
including PSTN phones. Legacy DECT base stations and WiFi modems will be replaced by DECT/CAT-iq enabled voice and data gateways.

 

“The DECT Forum has shown in the past that it publishes the most accurate and reliable forecast of DECT and CAT-iq related devices. In this new forecast DECT Forum members have studied CAT-iq enabled gateway and
handset deployment, based on their own market knowledge of different regions, e.g. North America, Europe and APAC”, says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum. “However, it is not in the scope of the DECT Forum to develop and sell detailed market research data. Therefore the DECT Forum endorses forecasts from worldwide analyst firms that will provide further regional insights of different markets.”

Registration for Participants Closes on September 19, 2008

 

Berne, Switzerland, September 9, 2008. The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, announces the closing of the registration for the CAT-iq Design Competition on September 19, 2008. Design students from all over the world can win cash-prizes as well as market or licence their great ideas to leading companies of the home communication industry.

“The communication business changes dramatically. We call it overall IP communication. With your participation in the CAT-iq Design Competition you have the opportunity to shape the future of home communication. With some luck you can win attractive cash-prizes. But even more, since the
leading global industry players follow this competition very closely, the best ideas have a great chance to be manufactured and seen soon as innovative products on the market, in stores all
over the world”, says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum.

 

The CAT-iq Design Competition addresses two general categories:
• Leading-edge Products for broadband home communication
      and/or
• Innovative and useful Services for broadband home communication

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Prizes:
First prize: 10,000 €
Second prize: 5,000 €
Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Checklist:
Close of registration: September 19, 2008.
Submission of entries: October 10, 2008.
Announcement of winners: November 14, 2008.
More information, registration, contacts at: www.catiqdesigncompetition.org

 

About CAT-iq:

CAT-iq, the global technology platform for wireless communication, is the successor of the reliable DECT standard. CAT-iq is designed for the next generation of IP networks, operates in a protected frequency band and is available in almost every region of the world. The most important benefits of the CAT-iq technology are:
full in-house IP connectivity, applicable for CD quality audio and radio, widescreen messaging, intelligent device management and remote control, real plug and play, and energy saving.

 

About DECT Forum and Jakajima:

The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition. The DECT Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry association representing the worldwide home communication industry. Jury members of the Design competition are: Vincent Buet (Philips), Pieter Hermans (Jakajima), Erich Kamperschroer (DECT Forum), Nicholas Rhodes (St. Martins College London), Erik Stridbaek (Polycom),
Sofia Svanteson (Ocean Observations), Lesley Taylor (SGW Europe), C.H. Tong (VTech).
For more information please visit: www.dect.org www.cat-iq.org www.catiqdesigncompetition.org

Jakajima is an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics trade chain. Jakajima is based in Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at www.jakajima.eu.