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Standards & Interop in ICT ETP’s Panel 1: The food Chain R&D->Standards->Products & Services-Timing and course of R&D output. Sophia-Antipolis, October 23-24th 2006 By Jean-Michel DUPONT, Thomson jean-michel.dupont@thomson.net. Thomson: Images & Beyond.
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Standards & Interop in ICT ETP’sPanel 1:The food Chain R&D->Standards->Products & Services-Timing and course of R&D output Sophia-Antipolis, October 23-24th 2006 By Jean-Michel DUPONT, Thomson jean-michel.dupont@thomson.net
Thomson: Images & Beyond Thomson is a world leader in digital video technologies. Serving the global Media & Entertainment industries, the Group is organized in three divisions – Services, Systems and Technology. employees in 2006 Core Business revenues 2005
Three Client Categories Content Creators Content Distributors Users of Thomson Technologies • IT • Electronics • Telecoms
Thomson Worldwide NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA December 200514 973 EUROPE December 20059 107 APAC December 2005 2 170 Genuinely multicultural
Services Division Theatrical Services Content Services Home Entertainment Services Network Services
Systems Division Professional products and video network head-ends Network Access products - Set-top boxes Triple-play solutions Home networking World leader in access gateways
Technology Division A unique portfolio of 50,000 patents 8 research labs Security & Software Silicon solutions
Innovation valorisation chain • All 3 Businesses value Technology with different speed : • SERVICES SOLUTIONS with immediate implementation and utilisation for best interest of our customers • Interoperability is most of time used • SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS providing systems and products to market at right time • One model of dissemination is standardisation but this is not the only one. • Standard “de facto” is existing and answering fast need of market. • TECHNOLOGY long term visibility, development and valorisation patent portfolio. • Standard is must but again not only one way.
European Technology Platform THOMSON leadership in: • Move to NEM as convergence of Networks and Medias is core issue for IST industry. • European platform is place where main stakeholders agreed on next years Research challenges in ICT. • NEM should help speed up standardization and interoperability processes • NEM should help defining priorities between Interoperability, Forums, Standardisations • NEM should coordinate actions for European test bed and integration platforms • NEM could help in promoting new standards