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CONTENTS

Pursuant to 118, Article of Association of the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) and accordance with clause for a private company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital of the Companies Act 1965, MTSFB hereby produce and publish its annual report that set out in details the activities and achievements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2011.

About UsThe Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) (655268-P) is a company limited by guarantee without any share capital was incorporated on 8 June 2004. On 27 October 2004, MTSFB was designated and registered by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) as the Technical Standards Forum under the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) 1998 (Act 588), Part V, Chapter 9 – Voluntary Industry Codes, Section 94 Industry Forum and Part VII, Chapter 3 – Technical Standards Section 184 Technical Standards Forum.

MTSFB was established to embrace self-regulatory in accordance with the spirit of CMA 1998 and stipulated vision of SKMM by initiating and facilitating the development of technical codes, standards and guidelines related to operational, safety and interoperability by Network Facility, Network Service or Network Application Providers.

MTSFB also was officially recognised as the Standard Writing Organization (SWO) pursuant to the agreement entered into on 15 August 2005 with SIRIM Berhad (SIRIM) in compliance with the appointment by the Department of Standards Malaysia (DSM) under the provision of the Standard of Malaysia Act 1996.

Among the primary roles of MTSFB are to develop, recommend, modify and update the Technical Codes, Standards and Guidelines for registration by SKMM and also approval as Malaysia Standards for gazettal by SIRIM and DSM in relation to both fixed and wireless network providers and other stakeholders in the country.

The involvement to development the abovementioned technical documents will bring immense benefits not only to stakeholders but also to consumers at large and it is essential towards achieving sustainable development for the communications and multimedia industry in Malaysia.

The main technological standards contributors to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are listed below:-• Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Europe;• Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC), Japan;• China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in China;• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) of North America; and• Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), South Korea

We benchmark ourselves to these international bodies to push us in making the right step towards a better organization to forward.

Statutory Requirement1

1 Statutory Requirement 03

2 Organization Structure 04

3 Working Groups 08

4 External Committee 12

5 Registered Members 13

6 Management & Directors’ Meetings 15

7 List of Documents 17

8 Events 20

9 Knowledge Sharing 41

Articles Segments 77

Office Relocation 99

Editorial Team:

Amirul AhmadNorazlina Dato’ GhazaliHumairah Ahmad Nasir

Published by:

Malaysian TechnicalStandards Forum Bhd (MTSFB)L2-E-11, Lab 3, Digital Media Centre,Enterprise 4,Technology Park Malaysia,Lebuhraya Puchong-Sg. Besi, Bukit Jalil,57000 Kuala Lumpur.

T : +603 8996 5505 / 5509F : +603 8996 5507E : admin@mtsfb.org.myW : www.mtsfb.org.my

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Organization Structure2

Azim Ng Abdullah (SIRIM)

Hj Ramain Othman (Maxis)

Shahrul Imran Sultan (MBNS/Astro)

Karim Fakir Ali (DiGi)

Mohd Rais Azhar (Telekom Malaysia)

Abdulhadi Wahid (TIME)

Dato’ Rosman Ridzwan (U Mobile)

Senior ManagerAmirul Ahmad

Reference PanelChairman : NA Ratnam

Vice Chairman : Amirul Ahmad

Fixed Terminal (FT) WGChair: Abd Hamid Mustafa (Telekom)

Satelite Broadcast Terminal (SBT) WGChair: Shahrul Imran Sultan (MBNS/Astro)

Powerline Communications (PLC) WGChair: Vacant

Next Generation Network (NGN) WGChair: Vacant

IMT WGChair: Koo Jenn Mang (DiGi)

Digital Radio Broadcast (DRB) WGChair: Roslan Boni (MBNS/Astro-AMP)

IPv6 WGChair: Gopinath Rao Sinniah (MIMOS)

ManagerNorazlina Dato’ Ghazali

Senior ExecutiveHumairah Ahmad Nasir

Dato’ Ismail Osman (Asiaspace)Board of Directors

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1 Fixed Network Infrastructure (FNI) WGChair: Mohd Yusairi Abu Hasan (Telekom)

Broadcast Network Infrastructure (BNI) WGChair: Vacant

Radiocomm. Network Infra. External (RNI[Ex])Chair: Nor Izhar Mohd Zain (Asiaspace)

Radiocomm. Network Infra. Internal (RNI[In])Chair: Hamzah Burok (UMobile)

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) WGChair: Bruce de Netto (Maxis)

Wireless Industry Emission (WIE) WGChair: Vacant

Wireless Terminal WGChair: Dr Mazlan Abbas (MIMOS)

Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) WGChair: Magli Alias (RTM)

Green ICT (GICT) WGChair: Nur Faezal Elias (NFE)

Multimedia Terminal (MMT) WGChair: Jaafar Hj Mohamad Abu Bakar(TM R&D)

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) WGChair: Mustafa Kamal Mamat (Astro)

Installation Network Facilities-Regulatory(INF-R) WGChair : Irving Ho Wee Beng (DiGi)

Organization

Permanent DirectorAlternate Director

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Note:Note: Board of Directors in accordance with Section 52 of the Company’s Article of Association

ASIASPACE

Dato’ Ismail Bin OsmanNor Izhar Mohd Zain

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DiGi

Abdul Karim Fakir bin AliKoo Jenn Mang

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SIRIM Berhad

Azim Ng AbdullahTuan Haji Abdul Aziz bin Long

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U MOBILE

Dato’ Rosman RidzwanHamzah Burok

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MAXIS

Tuan Haji Ramlan Bin OthmanSoh Kin Hoe

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MBNS (Astro)

Shahrul Imran SultanMustafa Kamal Mamat

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TELEKOM MALAYSIA

Mohd Rais AzharTuan Haji Zakaria Ahmad

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TIME dotCom

Abdulhadi WahidMohd Hanizam Mohamed

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The permanent officers :

• Amirul Ahmad – Senior Manager

• Norazlina Dato’ Ghazali – Manager

• Humairah Ahmad Nasir – Senior Executive

MTSFB has played a major role in the development of technical codes, standards and guidelines for the communications and multimedia industry through establishment of various internal working groups as well as participation in relevant external committee.

2.2. Office Bearers

RP Chairman - Ratnam NA (MBNS/Astro)

RP Vice Chairman - Amirul Ahmad (MTSFB)

SIRIM - Abdul Ghani Zainal Abidin

WG (Abbre.)

WG CHAIRMAN (Name & Organization)WG VICE CHAIRMAN (Name & Organization)WG SECRETARY (Name & Organization)

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Mohd Yusairi Abu Hassan (TM) Hasfarudin HaronMuhammad Zaim Halilul Rahuman (TM)

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DTT

Magli Alias (RTM) Tan Kwong Meng (MPB)Omar Giri Valliapan

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Abd Hamid Mustafa (TM) Ahmad Faizan Pardi (SIRIM) Nur Rashidah Abas Azmi (TM)

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2.3. Reference Panel

(Note: Reference Panel members base on representative from active working group status and in accordance with Section 103 of the Company’s Article of Association. The RP members include the appointed Chairman of each Working Group as the permanent representative or being delegated as the authorized alternate representative among the respective appointed Working Group Leaders or Working Group members)

MTSFB continue to maintain Reference Panel members (including the Working Group Leaders) as our main contact and asset to the Company as the subject matter expert. Thus deem necessary to ensure this talents will continue to be supported hence contributing to the Company as well as to the Communications and Multimedia industry at large to achieve our national interests.

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Jaafar Hj. Mohamad Abu Bakar (TM R&D) Dr. Rohmad Fakeh (RTM) Razaini Mohd Razali (SIRIM)

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Dr Mazlan Abbas (MIMOS)Glen Cha (Nokia) Najib Fadil Mohd Bisri (TM)

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IPv6

Gopinath Rao Sinniah (MIMOS) Ronhazli Adam (Celcom) Azura Mat Salim (TM)

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SBT

Shahrul Imran (MBNS/Astro) Zul Deresid (MBNS/Astro) Razaini Mohd Razali (SIRIM)

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INF-R

Irving Ho Wee Beng (DiGi) Mohd Zin Mohd Noor (Sapura) Noordiwati Razali (DiGi)

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Hamzah Burok (U Mobile) Mohd Hafiz Senin (P1) Delina Samsuddin (U Mobile)

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IMT

Koo Jenn Mang (DiGi)Hamzah Burok (U Mobile)Khairul Akmal Zahri (P1)

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Nor Izhar Mohd Zain (Asiaspace) Koo Jenn Mang (DiGi)Vacant

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GICT

Nur Faezal Elias (NFE) Dr Timothy Senitharajah (Ericsson)Adi Effendi Abu Bakar (NFE)

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Bruce de Netto (Maxis) Major (R) Jimi Ng (UEM) Suzamri Salleh (Maxis)

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IPTV

Mustafa Kamal (MBNS/Astro)Nik Maziah Nik Mohamad (TM)Muzaffar Fakhruddin (Sony)

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Working Groups are established on a project basis either industry own initiative or request by SKMM and must operate in accordance with the Operating Manual, Article of Association or any principles determined by the Board.

Pursuant to Part VII, Chapter 3, Section 185 of CMA on Matters for Technical Code, we have expanded our scope of work into 19 Working Groups and categorized in line with the scope defined in the WG’s Terms of Reference (ToR) of the identified Work Program and its deliverable to be achieved as follows:

3.1. Network Facility/InfrastructureIn general Network Facility WGs usually will involve in the development of a Technical Code (called either Technical Standard or Technical Guideline) document and the audience to these documents will be the Network Facility and Service licensees.

3.2. Network Terminal/EquipmentWhile Network Equipment WGs will usually involves in the development (adopt, adapt, revise, profiling) of a Standard (called as Technical Specification) document and the main audience to these documents will be the appointed certifying agency, SIRIM QAS International for certification purposes and the terminal manufacturers, vendors including Network Facility, Service and Application licensees as well.

3.3. Network TechnologyWhile the Network Technology WGs will involve in the development of a Technical Code document or could be a Mandatory Standard document on the provision of the network services hence the main audience to these documents will be again from licensees.

These Working Groups are being monitored and classified administratively under two status Active & In-Recess (13 active WGs & 5 in-recess WGs) as follows:

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE[may related to ITU-D/ISO/IEC, property developers and other government ministries/departments like Local Authorities etc]

1 FIXED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP (FNI WG)

2 RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE (EXTERNAL) WORKING GROUP [RNI Ex) WG]

3 RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE (INTERNAL) WORKING GROUP [RNI (In) WG]

4 BROADCASTING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP (BNI WG)

5 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH WORKING GROUP (OSH WG)

6 WIRELESS INDUSTRY EMISSION WORKING GROUP (WIE WG)

7 GREEN INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP (GICT WG)

8 INSTALLATION NETWORK FACILITIES-REGULATORY (INF-R WG)

Working Groups3NETWORK TERMINAL: [may related to IEC/ETSI, equipment manufacturers, certification agencies and consumer premise equipments/devices etc]

1 FIXED TERMINAL WORKING GROUP (FT WG)

2 MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL WORKING GROUP (MMT WG)

3 SATELLITE BROADCAST TERMINAL WORKING GROUP (SBT WG)

4 WIRELESS TERMINAL WORKING GROUP (WT WG)

NETWORK TECHNOLOGY: [may related to ITU-T/ITU-R other government ministries/departments like MOSTI’ MDEC/Mimos/Standard Malaysia/SIRIM and R&D institutions etc]

1 NEXT GENERATION NETWORK WORKING GROUP (NGN WG)

2 INTERNATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP (IMT WG)

3 INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 WORKING GROUP (IPv6 WG)

4 DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TV BROADCASTING WORKING GROUP (DTT WG)

5 POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP (PLC WG)

6 DIGITAL RADIO BROADCAST WORKING GROUP (DRB WG)

7 INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION WORKING GROUP (IPTV WG)

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INTERNATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP

INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6WORKING GROUP

DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION BROADCAST WORKING GROUP

INTERNET PROOTOCOL TELEVISION WORKING GROUP

FIXED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTUREWORKING GROUP

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKINFRASTRUCTURE (EXTERNAL) WORKING GROUP

GREEN INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONSTECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKINFRASTRUCTURE (INTERNAL) WORKING GROUP

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTHWORKING GROUP

MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL WORKING GROUP

WIRELESS TERMINAL WORKING GROUP

SATELLITE BROADCAST TERMINALWORKING GROUP

FIXED TERMINAL WORKING GROUP

(Note: Active Working Group refers to administrative status for working group that currently has work in progress to be completed as defined by the respective Terms of Reference (ToR))

Technology

FacilityEquipment

IMT WG

FNI WGMMT WG

IPv6 WG

RNI (Ex)WG

RNI (In)WG

WT WG

DTT WG

GICT WGSBT WG

IPTV WG

OSH WG

FT WG

Active Working Group

WIRELESS INDUSTRY EMISSIONWORKING GROUP

BROADCASTING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKWORKING GROUP

POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONSWORKING GROUP

DIGITAL RADIO BROADCASTWORKING GROUP

(Note: In Recess Working Group (inactive/dormant mode) refers to administrative status for working group that is pending completion of any deliverables from initiated project as defined by the respective Terms of Reference (ToR) or; for working group that covers subject matter that is still relevant to the industry but has no new project to be delivered. The contact details of these working group members will still be maintained by the Company for any relevant correspondence and for future references if necessary)

Facility

Technology

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NGN WG

BNI WG

PLC WG

DRB WG

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External Committee4

NKEA CCI EPP Smart Network

Reference Committee(EPP9 RC)

Co-Lead: MTSFB & SKMM

National SpectrumConsultative Committee

(NSCC)Dato’ Ismail & Amirul

Industry Standards Committee Occupational

Health and Safety(ISC-W)

Humairah & Bruce

Occupational Safety & Health Working Group

Under DOSH Technical Committee

Humairah & Bruce

Technical Committee IT Interconnection

Communications and System Information

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Amirul & Ratnam

Working Committee

CommercialWorking

Committee(CWC)

Co-lead:CelcomTime

TechnicalWorking

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Co-lead:EricssonMaxis

Industry Standards Committee

Information Technology, Communications and

Multimedia(ISC-G)

Amirul & Ratnam

OFFICE BEARER

Board of Directors

Registered Members5MTSFB keep attracting new members each year:2008: 35 registered members (16 Ordinary Members and 19 Associate Members)

2009: 43 registered members (17 Ordinary Members and 26 Associate Members)

2010: 48 registered members (13 Ordinary Members and 35 Associate Members) after audited

2011: 56 registered members (17 Ordinary Members and 39 Associate Members)

MTSFB/OM/01-04 Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/02-04 Telekom Malaysia Berhad

MTSFB/OM/03-04 SIRIM Berhad

MTSFB/OM/04-04 MBNS(Astro)

MTSFB/OM/05-04 DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/06-05 Time dotCom Berhad

MTSFB/OM/08-05 U Mobile Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/13-05 NTT MSC Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/14-06 Orbitage Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/16-07 MIMOS Berhad

MTSFB/OM/17-08 ZTE (Malaysia) Corporation Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/18-09 Asiaspace Digital Network Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/19-10 FineTV Network Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/20-11 YTL Communications Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/21-11 Media Prima Berhad

MTSFB/OM/22-11 Redtone Marketing Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/OM/23-11 R & L Telecommunications Sdn Bhd

5.1. Ordinary

Registration No. Organization Name

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MTSFB/AM/22-09 Jaring Communications Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/24-09 MYNIC Berhad

MTSFB/AM/25-09 Sony EMCS Malaysia Sdn Bhd (KL TEC)

MTSFB/AM/26-09 MDEC

MTSFB/AM/27-09 Sapura Holdings Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/28-09 NFE Consulting Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/29-09 Strategy & Technology Limited

MTSFB/AM/30-09 Broadcast Australia Pty Limited

MTSFB/AM/31-10 Y P Yau Trading

MTSFB/AM/32-10 CONAX AS Singapore Branch

MTSFB/AM/33-10 Wamata Solutions Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/34-10 Guillemard Engineering Services

MTSFB/AM/35-10 Kudelski Group

MTSFB/AM/36-10 Grass2route Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/37-10 Riger Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/38-10 Pernec Corporation Berhad

MTSFB/AM/39-10 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

MTSFB/AM/40-11 Panasonic AVC Network Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/41-11 PCOM Technologies Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/42-11 DualStak Networks Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/43-11 Tectronics Industrial (M) Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/44-11 VS Industry Berhad

MTSFB/AM/45-11 Dolby Laboratories Inc.

5.2 Associate

MTSFB/AM/02-04 Rohde & Schwarz Malaysia Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/03-05 Nokia Siemens Networks Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/04-05 Ericsson (M) Berhad

MTSFB/AM/05-05 Alcatel-Lucent (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/06-05 Universiti Putra Malaysia

MTSFB/AM/07-05 TM Net Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/08-05 Celcom Axiata Berhad

MTSFB/AM/09-05 Motorola Technology Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/10-05 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

MTSFB/AM/12-05 Universiti Teknologi Mara

MTSFB/AM/13-03 Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

MTSFB/AM/16-06 National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6)

MTSFB/AM/17-08 Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/18-08 BT Multimedia Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/20-08 GTL Networks Services Malaysia Sdn Bhd

MTSFB/AM/21-09 Transform Star Sdn Bhd

Registration No. Organization Name Registration No. Organization Name

Deliverables by Working Group are divided Documentation (D), Activities (A) or Others (O) categories:

MTSFB Management Meetings:MTSFB convene meetings on a regular basis to ensure that its objectives on yearly activities are achieved.The frequency of each meeting is as follows:

Board of Directors Meeting (BoD) • BoD Meeting No 1/2011 was held on 18 May 2011 • BoD Meeting No 2/2011 was held on 9 June 2011 • BoD Meeting No 3/2011 was held on 22 December 2011

Reference Panels Meeting (RPM) • RP Meeting No 1/2011 was held on 17 March 2011 • RP Meeting No 2/2011 was held on 23 April 2011 • RP Meeting No 3/2011 was held on 11 May 2011 • RP Meeting No 4/2011 (discussion) was held on 14 July 2011 • Adjourned RP Meeting No 4/2011 was held on 18 August 2011 • RP Meeting No 5/2011 was held on 13 September 2011 • RP Meeting No 6/2011 was held on 15 December 2011

Annual General Meeting (AGM) • MTSFB 7th AGM was held on 24 June 2011

MCMC-MTSFB Meeting (MMM) • MCMC-MTSFB Meeting No 1/2011 was held on 29 March 2011 • MCMC-MTSFB Meeting No 2/2011 was held on 20 May 2011 • MCMC-MTSFB Meeting No 3/2011 was held on 21 September 2011

Respective active Working Group Meeting to be held as frequent as possible.

Management &Directors’ Meetings

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MTSFB 7th Annual General Meeting

The 7th Annual General Meeting of the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd was held on Friday, 24 June 2011 at Pusat Maritim, No. 1, Jalan P5/5, Precint 5, 62200 Putrajaya and the Members of the Company have passed the following resolutions:-

(i) Appointment of Dato’ Ismail bin Osman as Chairman of MTSFB for a term of two (2) years; (ii) Re-election of Encik Abdul Karim Fakir bin Ali, Encik Azim Ng bin Abdullah and Encik Abdulhadi bin Wahid as Directors of the Company pursuant to Article

68 of the Articles of Association of the Company; and (iii) Re-appointment of Messrs Khairuddin Hasyudeen & Razi as Auditors of the Company for the ensuing year ending 31 December 2011.

The membership certificates were presented to their individual corporate representatives during the event.

Development of Technical documents

YEAR 2005 - 2010

No SERIES NAME STATUS

1 MTSFB 001:2005 Guideline on Next Generation Network (NGN) Realisation -

MS 1903:2006 Next Generation Network (NGN) Realisation Registered as a Malaysian Standard in 2006

2 MTSFB 002:2005 Technical Standard on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTB) Adopted and Registered as a Commission Determination #2 on 9 November 2006

MCMC/CD #2/2006 Commission Determination on the Mandatory Standard for Free To Air Transmission of Digital Television Terrestrial Service

Revoked on 13 December 2011 (refer to item #8 - Year 2011 Listing)

3 MTSFB 003:2005 Guidelines for Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) Physical Network Layer -

MCMC/G/03/05 Guidelines On Broadband Over Power Line Communications Adopted and Registered as a Guideline in 2005

MS 1902:2006 Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) Physical Network Layer Adopted and Registered as a Malaysian Standard in 2006

4 MTSFB 004:2005 Technical Standard on RF Emission Control of Cellular Radio Sites -

MCMC/CD #1/2010 Commission Determination on the Mandatory Standard for Electromagnetic Field Emission from Radiocommunications Infrastructure

Adopted and Registered as a Commission Determination #1 on 24 December 2010

5 MTSFB 005:2005 Technical Standard for Digital Sound Broadcast (DSB) -

6 MTSFB 006:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) - Part 2: Broadcast Network Infrastructure

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MTSFB 006:2005(Rev 1.0:2008)

echnical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) - Part 2: Broadcast Network Infrastructure - Publication

Registered as a Technical Code on 8 October 2008

7 MTSFB 007:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) - Part 5: Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health Work Practices Guidelines

8 MTSFB 008:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) - Part 1: Fixed Network Infrastructure

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MTSFB 008:2005(Rev 1.0:2008)

Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) - Part 1: Fixed Network Infrastructure - Publication

Registered as a Technical Code on 13 August 2008

9 MTSFB 009:2005 Quality of Service for Voice, SMS and Packet-Switched Traffic for Public Cellular Services

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10 MTSFB 001:2006 Technical Standard for Wireless Broadband – WiMAX -

11 MTSFB 002:2006 Guideline on IPv6 Implementation and Compliant Test -

MS 2235:2009 Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Large Scale Enterprise IPv6 Fixed Network Implementation and Compliance Testing - Guidelines

Adopted and Registered as a Malaysian Standard in 2009

MTSFB 002:2006(Rev 1.0:2011)

Guideline on IPv6 Implementation and Compliant Test New 2011 submission - Pending

12 MTSFB 001:2008 Technical Standard For Free To Air Digital Terrestrial Receiver (Set Top Box) Revoked on 22 December 2011(refer to item #5 - Year 2011 Listing)

SKMM WTS STB FTA Rev 1.01:2008

Technical Specification For Free To Air Digital Terrestrial Television Receiver (Set-Top-Box)

Adopted and registered as Standard on 13 August 2008(refer to item #5 - Year 2011 Listing)

13 MTSFB 002:2008 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Guidelines -

SKMM/G/04/09 Guideline for Adoption of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) Adopted and Registered as a Guideline in 2009

14 MTSFB 003:2008 Mobile Broadcast TV Guidelines -

15 MTSFB 001:2009 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) -Part 3: Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure (External)

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MTSFB 001:2009(Rev. 1.0:2010)

Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (TSIR) -Part 3: Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure (External)

Registered as a Technical Code on21 May 2010

16 MTSFB 002:2009 Technical Standard of In Building Fiber Cabling for Fiber-To-The-Premise Registered as a Technical Code on23 August 2010

17 MTSFB 001:2010 Technical Standards: International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) -

18 MTSFB 002:2010 Technical Specification for Direct to Home Satellite Receiving Antenna -

No SERIES NAME STATUS

1 MTSFB 001:2011 Technical Specification for Direct to Home Satellite Receiver (Set Top Box) Adopted and Registered on 7 March 2011

2 MTSFB 002:2011 Technical Specification for Terminal Equipment for Connection to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

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3 MTSFB 003:2011 Technical Specification for Analogue Calling Line Identity Presentation (A-Clip) Facility for connection to Public Switched Telephone Networrk (PSTN)

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4 MTSFB 004:2011 Technical Specification for Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) System for Connection to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

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5 MTSFB 005:2011 Technical Specification for Digital Terrestrial Television Receiver -

6 MTSFB 006:2011 Technical Standard for Compression Table of Service Information (SI) Description for Digital Television Broadcast Service

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7 MTSFB 007:2011 Technical Standard for Middleware Profile of Digital Television Broadcast Service -

8 Occupational Safety and Health Work Practices Guidelines Has completed to be registed as a MS in October 2011. Yet to receive the MS #

9 MTSFB 008:2011 Technical Standard for Free To Air Transmission of Digital Television Terrestrial Service - Recommendation

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CommissionDetermination#1/2011

Commission Determination on the Mandatory Standard for Free To Air Transmission of Digital Television Terrestrial Service

New - Adopted and Registered as aCommission Determination#1 on 13 December 2011

10 MTSFB 009:2011 Technical Specification for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Transceivers -

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EVENTS8

MTSFB 2011 RETREAT

22 - 23 APRIL 2011

Colmar Tropicale Berjaya Hills,Bukit Tinggi, Pahang Darul Makmur

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The MTSFB 2011 Retreat is an exercise to foster good working relationship and communication among the Reference Panel members as well as the Working Group Leaders, namely the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary of each Working Group.

The MTSFB 2011 Retreat is to reinforce leadership skills, brainstorm ideas, stimulate teamwork, nurture sense of collaboration and reaffirm deliverables among Reference Panel members.

The MTSFB 2011 Retreat was held on 22 & 23 April 2011 (Friday and Saturday) at the Berjaya Hills Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang Darul Makmur.

The inaugural MTSFB Retreat received participation from the Reference Panel members comprises of the respective Working Group (WG) leaders that are the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary.

We have also invited the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) particularly from the Infrastructure Development & Standards Division (IDSD) as well as representatives from SIRIM Berhad as we find it is a good opportunity to bridge them with the key individuals from our local industry players for a strategic planning and action-focused commitment in driving and streamlining our objectives and targets on standard development for mutual benefits.

There was a total of 29 participants which breakdown as follows:

a Representatives from Industry Members : 22

b Representatives from SKMM : 2

c Representatives from SIRIM : 2

d Office Bearers : 3

Program Agenda

Time Activities

17.00 Registration & Check-In at Colmar Tropicale Resort, Bukit Tinggi

18.00 Dinner

20.00 Speech by Dato’ Ismail Osman, Chairman of Board

20.10 Presentation by MTSFB - Past achievement, lesson learned and challenges for standards development*

20:30 Presentation by SKMM – Technology, Standards & Network*

21:00 Presentation by SIRIM – Importance of Standard/Development of Malaysian Standard*

21:30 Presentation by SIRIM – Encik Ghani Zainal Abidin

22:00 Appreciation & Photo Session

22:30 [End of Day 1]

Day 1

The retreat was divided into 3 sessions as follows:-

A. PresentationsThis session was held from 8.15pm to 10.30pm on Friday, 22 April 2011.

The purpose of is to achieve MTSFB annual activities and deliverables output to be in line with national strategic roadmap by SKMM and national standardization body – SIRIM and other relevant agencies locally and internationally.

The presenters and titles were as follows:-

Presenter 1 : Encik Mohamad Nazir Osman Organisation : SKMMTitle : Technical Standards From under CMA 1998

Presenter 2 : Cik Salwa DenanOrganisation : SIRIM Title : Malaysian Standards Development Process and Standards Malaysia Strategic Plan & 10th Malaysian Plan

Presenter 3 : Encik Abdul Ghani Zainal Abidin, SIRIMOrganisation : SIRIM QAS International BerhadTitle : IECEx Certification

Presenter 4 : Encik Amirul Ahmad, MTSFBOrganisation : MTSFBTitle : Malaysian Technical Standards Froum Bhd – An Industry Forum

Time Activities

07.30 Breakfast

09.00 Workshop – MTSFB Workplan 2011/2012

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Reference Panel Meeting 2/2011

Check-Out Room

13.30 Lunch[End of Day 2]

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B. Workshop

This session was held from 9.00am to 10.30am on Saturday, 23 April 2011.

The participants was divided into 3 groups according to the Working Group scopes and represented a brief report on the deliverables and plan for year 2011& 2012.

Discussion includes:

• To indicate respective Working Group deliverables (activity, submission, registration, etc) and to indicate the respective timeline within the calendar year

• To map respective Working Group to ITU-T/D, ISO-IEC, SIRIM ISC-G or any relevant national/international standardization body

• To share any challenges in leading the WG and strategic ways to overcome

• To propose respective Working Group budget for the calendar year

• Annual Report 2010 – article from each WG

C. Reference Panel (RP) Meeting No 2/2011

The last session was held from 11.15am to 1.00pm on Saturday, 23 April 2011.

Agenda as follows:

• To confirm of the last RP Minutes of Meeting;

• Matters Arising;

• To receive RP Chairman Updates;

• To receive respective Working Groups Updates;

• To receive & recommend FT WG document for BoD Approval;

• To fix the date of the next RP Meeting; and

• To transact Any Other Business.

The retreat was a success with a good participation from the Working Group Leaders, SKMM and SIRIM.

The MTSFB 2011 Retreat, in particularly the presentations and workshop is a good opportunity to bridge the key individuals from the local industry players with SKMM particularly from IDSD for a strategic planning and action-focused commitment in driving and streamlining our objectives and targets on standard development for mutual benefits.

The RP members particularly understand the importance of standards development activities to overall national standards development system for the industry involving both at KPKK via SKMM as the industry regulator as well as at MOSTI via SIRIM as the national standard writing body.

The Retreat also is the first step by WG leaders to streamline their respective WG to the national and international standardization activities.

This was also the first time the WG leaders assemble to prepare their annual budget for 2012 as compare to an ad-hoc submission to SKMM previously.

However, there are much more strategic and better coordination by industry members through MTSFB with related government agencies which much to be desired.

We hope we would like to propose similar event to be in the MTSFB Yearly Calendar together with MCMC, SIRIM, Nuclear Malaysia, DOSH, Kettha, KPKK, MOSTI and others to join force in during the next event.

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WORLD IPv6 DAY

8 JUNE 2011

The Auditorium, SKMM, Cyberjaya

On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organizations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

SKMM and MTSFB collaborated with the Ministry of Information Communications and Culture (KPKK) in organising the World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011. The event themed ‘V6 Connecting Everything’, was officiated by YB. Dato’ Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Information, Communications and Culture.

In conjunction with this event, the IPv6 WG organized a one day workshop seminar and demonstration of IPv6 products. Speakers from various industries and research institutions shared their experiences with regard to the IPv6 implementation.

There were 250 participants from various organizations; government sectors, banking, ISPs, Universities, etc.

Topic1

There were 13 presenters whom shared their insights and experiences on IPv6.

IPv6 – Global PerspectiveBy Encik Adil Hidayat bin Rosli, My6 Initiative Berhad

BiographyAdil Hidayat Bin Rosli, an IPv6 Forum Certified Trainer is the Managing Director of My6 Initiative Berhad (My6), a key provider of IPv6-oriented solutions, integration consultancy, and training services for some of the top IT entity and government agencies. Prior to My6, Adil was attached with the National Advanced IPv6 Center (NAv6), USM as a Senior Researcher and Senior Trainer for the IPv6 training courses offered by the organization.Adil is a leading figure and playing an active role in the development of IPv6 in Malaysia, he has assisted countless numbers of ministries and agencies with their IPv6 planning, integration, verification and human resource development.

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Government IPv6 Implementation By Puan Zaiha Mat Noor, Deputy Director, MAMPU

BiographyPn Zaiha Mat Nor a Deputy Director of Bahagian Perkhidmatan Gunasama ICT at MAMPU which is the Prime Minister Department. She was working for the Malaysia government for 21 years. She received her Master in Information Technology from UiTM and received her bachelor degree in Computer Science from University of Georgia,US

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Experience Sharing by MIMOS By Mr Shariq Haseeb, MIMOS Berhad

BiographyShariq Haseeb completed his degree and Masters from International Islamic University Malaysia in 2003 and 2006 respectively, majoring in Mobile IPv6 protocol variants. He then joined MIMOS Berhad as a Researcher in 2007 and has been attached to MIMOS since then. His work in MIMOS focused on IPv6 and related protocol enhancements. During his tenure at MIMOS, he has produced more than 20 patents and 7 publications in the field of Communication Networks. His areas of interest are IPv6 protocols, wireless networks, mobility and data offloading.

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MYREN IPv6 Network By Mr Kamal Hisham Kamaruddin,Network Operation Manager, MYREN (Malaysia Research Network)

BiographyKamal Hisham Kamaruddin, the MYREN Network Operation Manager is responsible for the running of MYREN activities and technical administration. His areas of interest are Network Engineering specifically on ISP level routing, IPv6 multicast/unicast routing and Open source network management tools. He is the member of TEIN3 Technical Committee, Malaysia MTSFB IPv6 Working Group, and technical leader for MYREN routing and security matter. He has

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IPv6 Regulatory / Malaysian Perspective By Tuan Haji Norizan Ghazali,Director of Numbering Management Department, SKMM

BiographyTuan Haji Norizan Ghazali is a Director of Numbering Management Department of SKMM. He has vast knowledge in IPv6. Topic

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Malaysia DNSv6 By Mr Lai Heng Choong, .myDomain Registry

BiographyMr Lai was heavily involved in MYNIC’s myDNSIPv6 (My Domain Name System IPv6) project. This project requires him to handle transition of current .my registry DNS servers to be a dual stack server. He joined MYNIC in 2007 as a Senior System Development for Technology and Innovation Unit and promoted as a Manager of Application and Database in 2010. Prior to MYNIC, he was actively involved in the E-commerce web portal development, having 10 years experiences in dynamic web development languages such as perl, php, asp and jsp. He is the founder of www.tuitionmall.com and www.kids.net.my. Between the year 2000 and 2004, he has worked with an ICANN accredited domain name registrar, involved in a lot of DNS configuration and develop an EPP client for domain registration. Lai graduated from University Putra Malaysia with a Master Degree in Information Technology.

IPv6 Trainings for Human Capital Development By Dr. M Raja Kumar,Senior Reseacher, National Advance IPv6 Centre

Biography M. Raja Kumar is a Senior Researcher, heading IPv6 Research

Route Registries and Route6: Object – an NTT Sample By Mr Teoh Kiat Jin,Manager IPBB/GINNOC, NTT MSC Sdn Bhd

BiographyMr Teoh Kiat Jin currently manages the IP Backbone Operations, Regional GINNOC and is part of the Global CE program (a program employed by NTT America). He maintains about 15 years of working experience with both Network and System Administration and a third of which from NTT MSC Sdn Bhd.

IPv6 Multicasting for IPTV Services By Dr. Jeffrey Bannister,Telecoms Specialist, Orbitage Sdn Bhd

BiographyDr. Jeffrey Bannister is co-founder and CTO at Orbitage Sdn. Bhd. A native of Ireland, he received his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Trinity College in Dublin. Dr. Bannister has over 18 years of experience, and holds an internationally recognized teaching qualification. Jeffrey has also been a lecturer, research fellow and course developer with the Dublin Institute of Technology, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, Trinity College in Dublin and with Philips Research Labs in the Netherlands. Jeffrey has vast experience in the competence development and assessment arena and has been developing and delivering training for industry worldwide over the past 12 years. He is an active member of the MTSFB and a regular contributor of articles regarding the telecoms industry to several publications, including Mobile World magazine. He is a WiMAX Forum certified RF Planner.

Jeffrey is co-author of the book “Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks: IP, UMTS, EGPRS and ATM”, published by John Wiley. It is a worldwide best seller, receiving excellent reviews from the IEE and elsewhere

at National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6) in Universiti Sains Malaysia. He received his M. Sc in Computer Electronics, M. Phil in Computer Science, and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science and Applications from Bharathidasan University, India, and his PhD in the area of Advanced Computer Networks from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.

He has about two decades of experience in teaching computer science for both undergraduate and post-graduate students, and was a Cisco trained Academy Instructor.

His research interest is in the field of Internet Communication Protocols especially IPv6, Addressing Architecture, Network Architecture, Network Communications, Internet Governance, and Microprocessor based systems. He has done, and is actively involved in various IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) related research projects and events at the National and International level.

been leading the initiative in expanding IPv6 implementation to MYREN members and active in regional REN activities. He was previously with VADS Berhad, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia looking after the Managed WAN services for financial sector.

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IPv6 Security By Mr Lawrence E. Hughes,Chairman and Chief Technology Officer,DualStak Networks Sdn Bhd

BiographyLawrence E. Hughes is a visionary in the information technology and computer security fields, with a particular interest in secure digital communication and IPv6. An expert with more than 35 years experiences in creating and developing security products, Mr. Hughes has a long history of being a valued consultant in various global security companies. Mr. Hughes founded InfoWeapons Corporation to create high-quality, simple-to-use, end-user tools as a response to the general lack of secure communication and IPv6 Ready tools currently available. A prolific author, he has written numerous magazine articles and blogs, and one previous book, Internet E-mail: Protocols, Standards and Implementation, released in 1998. In October 2010, he released The Second Internet: Reinventing Computer Networks with IPv6, a 306-page book, which is distributed for free under Creative Commons License and is posted on major IPv6-related websites such as APNIC, Hurricane Electric, and SixXS. The home website for this book is www.secondinternet.org. He has also created a website to assist people with deployment of dual-stack networks (especially e-mail) at www.v6address.com.

All throughout his career, he has been constantly creating products and courseware in the areas of cryptography, digital signatures, digital envelopes, digital certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), secure transport protocols and secure e-mail, as well as hardened security appliances to protect digital communication. He is also Chairman and CTO of DualStak Networks Sdn. Bhd., based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mr. Hughes’ extensive technical background includes world-class skills in data security, cryptography, PKI, UNIX operating systems, Internet Protocols, IPv6, and software development in C/C++ and various assembly languages. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics, with a minor in physics, from the Florida State University. In addition, since 1973 Mr. Hughes has been a member of Mensa International

IPv6 Transitions By Mr Dae-Yang Choi, President, IBIT Tecnologies

BiographyDAEYANG CHOI, Age – 49

Computer Science, Hong-ik University, Korea

Mr Dae-Yang Choi is the founder of the iBIT company on July 2000. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT, Telecommunication. He had worked in development department of LGIC (LG Information & communications) for 12 years. He has driven iBIT business direction to IPv6 area after founding company and made iBIT get world first IPv6 Ready Logo on 2003. Currently, he is one operation member of IPv6 Forum in Korea.

IPv6 Transitions By Mr Lau Kok Khiang, Deputy Director, APAC IP Competence Center, Alcatel-Lucent Malaysia Sdn Bhd

BiographyHe is a Deputy Director Advanced Tendering & Consulting Engineering Alcatel-Lucent, APAC IP Competency Centre & is responsible for technology and network architecture-level engagements with the key Service Providers customers in support of their long-term network evolution and architecture planning in Asia-Pacific region. This includes technologies like mobile backhaul, LTE backhaul, Mobile core network transport, multi-service edge and core routing and also looking at residential services.

He is experienced in APAC region helping customers to roll-out Metro Ethernet services, mobile backhaul solutions and IP/MPLS based solutions. Involved with customers to implement and evolve metro Ethernet networks as well as providing architectural consultative advice to deliver Alcatel-lucent Triple Play delivery architecture (TPSDA). For mobile backhaul aspects, he is involved in delivering platform to scale mobile backhaul services as well as topics like synchronization and wholesale considerations.

The speakers have eloquently presented their view, implementation strategy, methods and other interesting topics on IPv6. Besides the wide range of topics presented, there were 4 products demonstrated by the following organizations:

MIMOS Berhad• 6LoWPAN technology – showcasing the IPv6 on low power devices. The sensors which

were deployed at MIMOS can be communicated using IPv6 stack to real time data• Multicasting – using MIMOS WiWi, they presented the video streaming capability on IPv6

TM R&D• MATAKu – a system that displayed the video capture by IPv6 camera which were located

at various places at SKMM and TMR&D

DualStak• A VoIP system using IPv6 capability. They showed the system by communicating with

their counterpart at Philippines.

The workshop was a success with a good number of participation from various organisations.

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Huawei IPv6 and experience sharingBy Dr. Jiang Sheng, IPv6 and Protocol Consultant, Huawei

BiographyHe is currently IPV6 and Protocol Consultant for Huawei working for more than 10 years. Actively participating in Network solution for major ISP at Europe, Australia, Bangladesh and etc. Promoted to IPV6 specialist with its major work determine the IPV6 standard, make sure huawei equipment is compliant with RFC, Member of IPV6 RFC forum, IPV6 RFC submittion, and etc.

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Seminar onDigital Terrestrial

Television BroadcastToward a Successful Rollout

Realization27 JUNE 2011

The Auditorium, SKMM, Cyberjaya

The seminar features international and local speakers sharing their expertise and market trend in moving forward building national digital boardcast infrastructure and profiling national standard base from the latest broadcasting technology, comparison to feasible business model and experience from few other countries in our preparation to realize our very own national digital terrestrial television service rollout.

Digital Terrestrial Television BroadcastThe Malaysians will also soon be able to enjoy Free To Air (FTA) transmission of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service when the nation start to migrate our terrestrial broadcast transmission from existing analogue into a whole new infrastructure of digital transmission.

Digital will make it possible for Malaysian to receive High Definition (HD) video, high quality surround audio with interactive capabilities

directly to our television screen at home.

The broadcasters, manufacturers, vendors and other stakeholders within the industry in general have come together to collaborate at the MTSFB to share knowledge, deliberate and develop relevant technical documents as reference and recommendation to the regulator and government which will not merely migrating us from analogue to digital broadcasting era but at the same time open a whole array of new business opportunities to the country.

It is a challenge to all stakeholders in realizing a successful migration rollout and later to switchover completely, and we Malaysians do hope that in stages the next London 2012 Summer Olympic Games and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil will be seen by us in HD quality on free to air digital broadcast service available by our broadcaster.

Digital Terrestrial Television Working GroupThe DTT WG is currently reviewing the Determination on the Mandatory Standard for Free To Air Transmission of Digital Terrestrial Television Service from DVB-T to the latest DVB-T2 profile.

Multimedia Terminal Working GroupThe MMT WG is currently reviewing the Technical Specification for Digital Terrestrial Television Receiver and developing Technical Standards for middleware profile and coding compression technique for transmission of Digital Terrestrial Television service in Malaysia.

Internet Protocol Television Working GroupThe formation of newly IPTV WG is developing Technical Standards for open IPTV system including terminology and interoperability of IPTV services in Malaysia.

BiographyDato’ Ismail Osman is the Chairman of the MTSFB, was elected since July 2007 until present.He is also currently an Executive Director of Asiaspace, a WiMax and infrastructure service provider, and subsequently represents the company as a Director in the Board Members of MTSFB.He was previously attached to U Mobile, a 3G mobile network operator when he joined the Berjaya Group as an Executive Director and was also a Director of MOL Access Portal Bhd. Dato’ Ismail holds a Master of Science in Microwave Semiconductor Electronics from the University of Kent, United Kingdom.Prior to his involvement in the corporate sector, he was the last Director General of the Department of Telecommunications Malaysia, the regulator before its regulatory functions were taken over by the SKMM in 1999. While he was in the government he was the first Director of Spectrum Management and was responsible in building up the present Automatic Frequency Management System in Malaysia.

Rohde & Schwarz Rohde & Schwarz numbers among the market leaders in all of its business fields, including wireless communications and RF test and measurement, terrestrial TV broadcasting, and technologies relating to the interception and analysis of radio signals.

BiographyDipl.-Ing. of University of Cologne in Communication / Information technology. More than 25 years experience in the Broadcast field

KathreinKathrein Werke-AG is offering over 4.500 different products covering many different fields of telecommunication technology, Kathrein is the largest and oldest manufacturer of antennas worldwide.

BiographyKlaus Kreuder holds a degree in electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) from the university Erlangen-Nuremberg.He joined Kathrein Rosenheim (Germany) 1999 as R&D engineer for mobile communication antennas.Since 2004 until present project manager for broadcast antenna systems at Kathrein company. During this time he was engaged in various antenna projects, e.g. in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Canada, China, Indonesia, Brazil and others. Some of these projects belong to a nationwide digital switchover.

Program Agenda

Session1

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OPENING

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09.00 - 09.05

09.05 - 09.15

Welcoming Remarks by Encik Magli Alias,Chairman, DTT Working Group

Opening Addressby YBhg. Dato’ Ismail Osman,Chairman of Board, MTSFB

08.30 - 09.00 Welcoming Remarks by Encik Magli Alias, Chairman, DTT Working GroupDeputy Directing of Engineering (Transmission) at Radio Television Malaysia (RTM)

Welcome Coffee/Tea

09.15 - 10.00 Paper 1: Monitoring of DVB-T2 networksby Mr. Nils Ahrens, Rohde &Schwarz

10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break

10.00 - 10.45 Paper 2: Antenna solutions forDVB Networks by Mr. Klaus Kreuder, Kathrein

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BiographyHolds a Bach.Science degree in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Mechanical & Electrical Degree from The University of Tokyo. He has worked for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation since 1990 with a long-term assignment in the company US labs Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs from 1995 to 2003.Fernando Masami Matsubara is in charge of defining digital networking strategy for CE/IT convergence solutions at the Multimedia Access Group of the Information Technology R & D Center of Mitsubishi Electric.He leads Home Networking and IPTV standardization efforts within the company and has participated extensively in organizations such as CEA, CableLabs, UPnP, DLNA, and ITU-T. He contributed to the creation of several ITU Recommendations under ITU-T Study Group 16

SpinnerSpinner GmbH is a supplier of high sophisticated passive components for the broadcast industries.

BiographySales and Marketing Manager for ASIA.Lars has worked as a technical sales engineer for Ortel, USA there he was in charge supporting the broadcast industry. Ortel was a major supplier of fiber optical links for satellite base stations.After that he joined Teradyne, USA and responsible for a specific board testing system as a sales engineer.In 2006 he joined the Spinner GmbH as a sales and marketing engineer for the broadcast department.

Media BroadcastMedia Broadcast is Germany’s largest full-service provider for the media and broadcasting industry.

BiographyMedia Broadcast GmbH, Bonn/Germany, Head of Business Unit TVManaging Director of Media Broadcast Austria GmbH, Wien/AustriaFounder and CEO MFD Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH, Germany’s first mobile TV platform operatorExperience in multiple IT Out-/Insoucing projectsExtensive Experience in set-up and operation of digital broadcast networks and platforms

Strategy & TechnologyStrategy & Technology Ltd (S&T) is a specialist company in the field of digital interactive TV, focused on the provision of technology solutions using public standards.

BiographyDirector of International Sales at Strategy and Technology Limited (S&T)Colin is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford. He is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

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12.30 - 12.45

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Q&A

Lunch Break

11.00 - 11.45 Paper 3: Current Status of IPTV Standardization at ITUby Mr. Fernando Masami Matsubara, Mitsubishi Electric

13.45 - 14.30 Paper 5: DTT and ASO: Lessons Learned From Successful DVB Implementationby Mr. Henrik Rinnert, Media Broadcast

15.15 - 15.30

15.30 - 16.00

16.00

Q&A

Coffee & Tea

Session End

11.45 - 12.30 Paper 4: Combining DVB-T2 signalsMr. Lars Carstensen, Spinner

14.30 - 15.15 Paper 6: Interactive and Connected TVby Mr. Colin Prior, Strategy &Technology Limited

STANDARDIZATION SEMINARIMPORTANCE OF STANDARDS AND MIGRATION TO SMARTER NETWORK AND GREENER TECHNOLOGY

IN COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA INDUSTRY

12 OCTOBER 2011

The Auditorium, SKMM, Cyberjaya

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The MTSFB and the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan have reached an understanding to collaborate on standardization initiatives including relevant technical standards development and technical project for the information technology, communications and multimedia industry.

The collaboration was documented and signed in the form of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the signing ceremony on 12 October 2011 at the SKMM. MTSFB was represented by YBhg. Dato’ Ismail Osman, Chairman of Board while TTC was represented by Mr. Yoichi Maeda, Chief Executive Officer & Senior Vice President.

MTSFB and TTC recognize the important role to be played from this collaboration and confident that the joint initiatives like this will take its work a step forward between both organizations and each country at large, leading to common views on some of the various issues on technical knowledge and challenges, harmonization of standards, adoption of technologies, implementation of network services and building industry recourses and experts in respective country.

Obviously Japan as a developed country and Malaysia in developing the country toward a high income nation must cooperate and leverage our resources in this industry and further aims to become a major contributing country of technology standards recommendation at regional and international level, particularly the possibility to support China, Japan & Korea (CJK) group at the regional Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) and up to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) level.

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Welcome CoffeeRegistration and arrival of Guests and Participants

Welcoming Remarks by YBhg. Dato’ Ismail Osman, Chairman, MTSFB

Memorandum of Understanding on technical collaboration between the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) and the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan

YBhg. Dato’ Ismail Osman, Chairman of Board, Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) andMr. Yoichi Maeda, Chief Executive Officer & Senior Vice President, Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC)

Morning Coffee Break & Networking Session

Standardisation activities of TTCMr. Yoichi MaedaTelecommunication Technology Committee (TTC)CEO & S.V.P. Chairman ITU-T Study Group 15

Overview of relevant activities and standardisation on Smart GridDr. Hideo ImanakaNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)Senior Manager Global R&D and Standardisation Strategy Research and Development Planning Department

Broadband access system and Green ICTDr. Tetsuya YokotaniSenior Manager, Communication System Technology Dept, Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

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End of Session

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Standardisation activities of TTC By Mr. Toichi Maeda,Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) CEO and S.V.P Chairman ITU-T Study Group 15

BiographyYOICH MAEDA received B.E and M.E degrees in Electronic Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan, 1978 and 1980 respectively. Since joining NTT in 1980, for the last 30 years, he has been engaged in research and development on access network transport systems for broadband communications including SDH, ATM and IP. From 1988 to 1989, he works for British Telecom Research Laboratories in the United Kingdom as an exchange research engineer. He currently leads the Japanese Telecommunication Standardisation Organisation, TTC (The Telecommunication Technology Committee) since October 2010. In October 2008, at the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA-08), he was appointed chair of ITU-T SG15 for the 2009 – 2012 study period for his second term. He is a Fellow of the IEICE of Japan. He has been a Series Editor of the Standards Series in IEEE Communications Magazine since 1999.

Overview of relevant activities and standardisation on Smart GridBy Dr. Hideo Imanaka

BiographyNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) – Senior Manager Global R&D and Standardisation Strategy Research and Development Planning Department

Broadband access system and Green ICTBy Dr. Tetsuya Yokotani

BiographySenior Manager, Communication System Technology Department, Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

The event was continued with 3 presentations

INTEGRATED ENGINEERING CARNIVAL (IEC)

15-17 NOVEMBER 2011

Electrical & Electronics Engineering Faculty, UiTM Shah Alam

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Organised by UiTM Engines Union. The event was taken place in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Faculty UiTM, Shah Alam from 15 to 17 November 2011. MTSFB was invited by SKMM to collaborate in the event. SKMM showcase the tower model and the magic map.

MTSFB was given a slot in the Industrial Talk which was presented by Encik Amirul Ahmad, MTSFB Senior Manager. The title of the presentation is Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd - An Industry Forum - Importance of Technologies & Standards. The attendees were mainly from the in Electrical and Electronics Engineering students.

Throughout the 3 days event, MTSFB manage • to introduce MTSFB as the designated Technical Standards Forum of the C&M industry to

attendees who will be largely from the university student & general public;• to educate the importance of the C&M industry Standards for the industry and nation at

large;• to promote participation and instil interest on the development of C&M standards

activities; • to introduce the scope or subject matter by various Working Groups under MTSFB in the

C&M industry;• to instil interest to attendees on the importance of industry collaboration grouping,

standards at broad global level, etc in relation to building up the company/ organization/ employer and the nation at large;

• to engage with fellow participants from the C&M industry to subscribe the broader benefits of collaboration scheme under industry grouping like MTSFB vs. older school of thought to unnecessary compete to each other particularly on standardization.

During the event, we also distribute IPv6 and GICT WG brochure as well as the MTSFB brochure for knowledge information.

KNOWLEDGE SHARING9

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The Training Program on Green IT for Asia (ENGI)7 to 14 October 2011

AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center, Tokyo, Japan

1. Background Information

Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) officially advocated “Green IT Initiatives” in December 2007 as a national effort, focusing on energy saving by IT and of IT equipment. Green IT Promotional Council (GIPC) was established in 2008 under an industry-government-university partnership initiated by METI.

Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), with the cooperation of Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC) and Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), is entrusted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Japan to implement the training program for the purpose of developing and enhancing human resources who are capable of playing a role in implementing and promoting Green IT in Asian countries. The main objective of this program is to assist the Asian countries in improving the technical know-how for implementing Green IT and to clarify problems for promotion of Green IT by sharing the experience in implementing Green IT initiative in Japan. This is done during the training through lectures, visit to a cutting-edge technology exhibition (CEATEC Japan 2011) and visit to companies involved in the Green IT initiative as well as presentations and discussion by participants.

Related to the above, Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) Green Information and Communications Technology Working Group (GICT WG) was invited by AOTS to participate in The Training Program on Green IT for Asia (ENGI) which was held at AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center, Tokyo, Japan from 7 to 14 October 2011.

MTSFB have selected a representative from MDeC to be part of the Malaysian delegates to participate in the AOTS’s training program since Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is an Associate Member of MTSFB and also a committee member in the MTSFB GICT WG.

Besides Malaysia, other countries invited to participate in this training program are China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Training Agenda/Contents

The training program is divided into three segments:1. Lectures by GIPC 2. Technical visit to cutting-edge IT and electronics

exhibition, and companies involved in the Green IT initiatives

3. Presentation by countries participated in the training

Training Location

The training was held at:AOTS Tokyo Kenshu Center (TKC)30-1, Senju-azuma 1-chome, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-8534, Japan

2. Details of Delegates

There are 27 participants for this training program. They are from China (5), India (2), Indonesia (5), Malaysia (3), Philippines (3), Thailand (4), Vietnam (4) and Singapore (1) as observer.

The delegates from Malaysia are follows:1. Nur Faezal Elias (Head of Delegation), from NFE

Consulting Sdn Bhd, Chairman of MTSFB GICT WG

2. Mohd Mokhtar Daud, from Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDeC) Committee member of MTSFB GICT WG

3. Dr. Mahendra Venkata Chilukuri, from Multimedia University Working Thread Leader of Metrics and Measurement of MTSFB GICT WG

3. Objectives

As Malaysia moving towards the implementation of Green initiative, this training program would enable the participants to gain some valuable knowledge from Japan as well as other participating countries. Some of the knowledge that can be gained from this training program are:

(i) Understand the overall theory and trend of Green IT.

(ii) Understand the current status of international collaboration for Green IT promotion.

(iii) Understand significance of implementation of Green IT.

(iv) Understand theory, technologies, operation and management method of Green IT.

(v) Study and understand how Japanese companies implement and strategize use of Green IT.

(vi) Share the experience on issues and best practices with other countries and learn the valuable lesson from them.

4. Observation and Key Highlights

Most of the lectures, discussions, and visits are conducted in Japanese with translation into English. The document and training materials are prepared in English.

Participants in the Training Program on Green IT for Asia (ENGI)

4.1 Lectures and Country Presentation

All lectures are conducted in Japanese with translation into English, while countries presentation was conducted in English with translation into Japanese. The interpreter during these sessions is Ms. Keiko Nakayama.

7th October 2011

Lecture 1Title: Overview of IT Industries, Outline of Green IT Promotion Policy in Japan (including activities of Green IT Promotional Council)Presenter: Mr. Hiroshi Suzuki, Director, Green IT Promotion Office, JEITA

1. Energy Conservation Measures Taken After the Earthquake Disaster

Due to the effect of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, the demand of energy exceeded the supply for the whole Japan. As such, the Japanese Government decided to conserve energy by 15% from the consumption of last year (2010). Several measures (especially on the demand-side) have been taken out by the Government with the cooperation of the industry players. Some of the measures taken are:• Mandatory power use limitation for businesses

with contract demand above 500kW through Article 27 of the Electricity Business Act

• Promotional for voluntary energy-saving measures for businesses with contract demand below 500kW

• Disseminate information and promotional on the energy conservation measures for residential

On the industry and business part, some of the measures taken are:• Efforts within the company - Introduction of energy-saving facilities

(However, not enough to reduce power consumption)

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- Concentration of offices (energy-saving lighting and air condition)

- Concentrating industrial chillers - Raising awareness through posters and

manuals• Joint efforts made by several companies - Adjusting operating time/day (shift) - Setting/extending/spreading out summer

holidays - Joint efforts by companies using different

forms of energy (adjusting operating and opening time depending on the power requirement)

With the measures taken by the Government and combined efforts by companies/industries, no major blackout occurred during the summer.

2. Promotion of Green IT

http://www.greenit-pc.jp/e/

Definition of Green IT: Energy conservation of IT equipment (Green of IT) and energy conservation by the society through IT (Green by IT)

As the number of IT equipment production and usage increasing, the power consumption use by the IT equipment will also increase significantly. As such, there is a need to drive forward the effort on energy conservation by making IT equipment less energy consuming, which in turn will result in energy conservation in other areas.

As part of the Green IT initiative in Japan, Green IT Promotion Council was established on 1 February 2008. It was created as a venue to strengthen cooperation among the industry, academia, and

government to further drive the effort on Green IT.

The initial members are:• Japan Electronics and Information Technology

Industries Association (JEITA)• The Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association

(JEMA)• Japan Electric Measuring Instruments

Manufacturers’ Association (JEMIMA)• Communications and Information network

Association of Japan (CIAJ)• Japan Business Machine and Information

System Industries Association (JBMIA)• Japan Information Technology Services Industry

Association (JISA)• Japan Users Association of Information Systems

(JUAS)

Now, the total number of companies, institutions, and groups participating in GIPC is exceeding 300 and it also includes foreign firms such as Microsoft, IBM etc. Several initiatives have been taken by GIPC to drive the effort on Green IT for Asia including conducting energy survey/audit in selected countries as well as providing training to personnel involving in promoting Green IT in respective countries in Asia.

As part of the recognition for the effort done by the industry on Green IT, GIPC introduced Green

IT Award. For this year, the ceremony was held on 3 October 2011 at JEITA.

With the setting up of the Green IT Promotion Council and the effort done by them in promoting

energy conservation measures, Japan has become one of the leading countries in the Green IT initiatives.• Producing low poor consumption (energy

saving) IT products.• Data centers start using energy-saving

equipment/system.• Able to develop human resources specializing in

energy-saving/Green IT that would able to share their expertise and experience in promoting Green IT/energy-saving initiatives in Asia.

• People have renewed awareness in energy-saving products and willing to cooperate in reducing power consumption at homes

Country Presentation 1

1. ChinaPresenter: Mr. Hou Ming, Deputy Director, China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (CECC)

Explained on some of the policy in place related to Green and problems on Green IT promotion.China has “Twelfh Five-Year Plan” (2011-2015) that sets some KPI related to energy and carbon reduction.

Some of the issues related to Green IT promotion in China are:• Awareness against the willingness of the end

users in purchasing the Green IT products• Company’s issue on Return of Investment (ROI)

of Green IT technology• Lack of collaboration among companies for

joint R&D on Green IT technology• Lack of support and reform fund for end users

2. IndiaPresenter: Mr. H. R. Prassana Subramanya, VPStrategic Account, inTarvo Technologies Ltd

Provided information on some of the initiatives and policies which already being implemented and to be implemented in India.

Some of the initiatives by the Government are:• working on a legislation to tighten fuel efficiency

standards, set voluntary targets to improve energy efficiency, push solar power and use of clean coal technology in power plants;

• to announce a sustainable public procurement policy encompassing central and state governments and PSUs including for IT;

• Several Mission-mode e-governance projects of the Govt. of India have already procured Green IT products on a voluntary basis;

• Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt. of India is working on energy efficiency standards for Data-centres as well as’ Energy Star Ratings’ for Desktops & Laptops. Specify equipment and appliances for labelling, Specify the energy consumption norms and standards, Direct display of labels on specified appliances, Enforce minimum efficiency standards by prohibiting manufacture, sale and import of products not meeting the minimum standards; and

• E-waste Regulation announced in May 2011(to be implemented in 2012).

IT Industry/IT Industry bodies strongly advocate deployment of Green products> some companies (such as inTarvo, Tata Consultancy Services, and HCL) already implemented energy conservation measures for Data Centers and buildings.

3. IndonesiaPresenter: Mr. Rheza Sistiadi, Director, PT Realta Chakradarma

Provided information on some of the initiatives that have been done and plans to be implemented.

Initiatives that have been done:• Regulation – 6 Presidential decrees on climate

change and renewable energy;• Education and Awareness – more than 10

conferences, seminars, and workshops on Green ICT have been conducted in 2010; and

• Business Initiatives – emerging businesses in renewable energy and e-waste management.

Initiatives to be implemented:• Regulation – National Policy on Green ICT and

Green Building regulations;• Education and Awareness – nationwide

conferences and workshops, Green IT certifications; and

• Business Initiatives – ICT-based low carbon economy, regional waste management

4. MalaysiaPresenter: Mr. Nur Faezal Elias,Chairman, MTSFB GICT WG

Provided information related to entities involved in Green IT in Malaysia as well as some of the initiatives and plans implemented.

In July 2010, MTSFB GICT WG was established. The objectives are:

• To promote Green IT in Malaysia; and • To streamline effort of the private and public

sectors including industry players, academia, and government.

In January 2010, the National Green Technology Council was setup. Now, known as National Green Technology and Climate Change Council.

Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water has published the National Green Technology Policy and currently, in the midst of preparing the Green Technology Roadmap.

5. PhilippinesPresenter: Mr. Arthur I. Ledonio, EMS Components Assembly Inc

Participants from Philippines representing respective companies as members of Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines, Inc (SEIPI). It is the leading and largest organization of more than 250 foreign and local semiconductor and electronics companies.

Some of the issues on Green IT in Philippines:• Lack of high-level ICT leaders in the Government;• Slow economic development;• Low government spending on Green IT;• Lack of standards on interoperability and ICT

resource sharing;• Lack of access to and dissemination of public

information;

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• Lack of strong and leading advocate for policy reform; and

• Need better transparency in the public-private partnerships.

6. ThailandPresenter: Mr. Kiattiporn Wangpattarapong,Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI)

On behalf of the Government, Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI) has implemented applications (greening application) in the industries such as manufacturing, transportation and logistics. “Prototypes” system developed by EEI and implemented in the selected industries are:• Production monitoring system• Warehouse management system• Material transportation for e-kanban

manufacturing system• Power monitoring system

Results of the system implemented in 2010 as follows:

• Power Monitoring - Reduce Peak Demand by 20%

• Production Monitoring - Reduce Defect Rate by 20 %

• Warehouse Management - Reduce Inventory Cost by 20%

• Material Transportation for e-kanban Mfg. - Reduce WIP to 0%

Other activities that have been undertaken are:

• Promotion of energy conservation – more product categories for Energy Label, Green Building seminar/exposition

• Promotion of Green Label/EcoLabel• Promotion of CFP/Carbon Label/CDM project in

E&E/ICT industry

ICT 2020 Framework was initiated for the development and application of ICT to drive

toward Green Economy and Society to achieve Smart Thailand 2020.

7. VietnamPresenter: Mr. Nguyen Nhu Trang, DeputyGeneral Secretary, Vietnam ElectronicIndustries Association

Provided information on some of the efforts done by the Vietnamese Government in relation to energy saving in general and Green IT in particular.

Some of the efforts, activities, and policy implemented and to be implemented are:

• National program on energy saving and efficiency – to reduce energy consumption between 5% to 8% during 2011-2015 period

• “Strategy in cleaner production to industry in 2020” – target in 2020: 50% facilities applying cleaner production, 8%-13% reduction in energy consumption etc.

Some of the issues in Green IT:• Low awareness and lack of knowledge and

information on Green IT• Both producers and consumers still less

enthusiastic about environmental friendly products and services

• Rapid increase of e-waste. Most operations done manually and illegally

• Old technologies and energy management in most of the plants/manufacturers especially in SMEs and handicraft villages

• High natural resources/energy consumption with low efficiency and high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

11th October 2011

Lecture 2Title: Outline of Asia Energy-saving Survey ProjectPresenter: Mr. Noriyuki NakayamaManager, Environmental ManagementDivision, NEC CorporationChairman, Green IT promotion Council:Asia Green IT Committee

Provided information and report/result on the “Energy-saving Diagnosis program through IT” with aim of reducing energy consumption in Asia. This project is supported by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) based on the “Asia Knowledge Economy Initiative”.

Under the Asia Green IT Committee, eight companies, based on their area of specialty, conducted diagnosis at selected location throughout Asia.

The survey and diagnosis on energy-saving were conducted in 2010 (July to November) at the following locations:

• Data Centers - Data Center at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

(IDC Frontier) - Large-scala Data Center at Singapoer (NTT

Data Intellilink)

• Public facilities/Buildings - Dalian University of Technology, China

(Mitsubishi Electric) - Cooperative Network company, Beijing

branch (NEC) - Amity University, Noida campus, India

(Panasonic) - UOB Alexander building, Singapore

(Yamatake)• Plant/Factories - Cement business, Vietnam (Hitachi) - Wuhan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd, China

(Yokogawa Electric)

Other than the survey, GIPC Asia Green IT Committee also conducted Green IT seminars and trainings. The Green seminars were held in Singapore and Beijing in February 2011. The on-site training for Green IT was held from 7 to 9 December 2010 where the participants visited demo rooms and plants of companies in charge of the diagnosis for each field.

Lecture 3Title: Contribution of Green IT to Low-Carbon Society by IT (1) – Measure and forecast of the energy saving effect by ITPresenter: Mr. Michinori KutamiPrincipal Technologist, Corporate Environment Strategy Unit, Fujitsu LimitedChairman, Green IT Promotion Council: Survey and Evaluation Committee

Explained on the structure of the GIPC Survey and Evaluation Committee structure.There are three (3) working groups under the committee1. WG1: Forecasts for 2020, survey on overseas

trends• Surveys on the Green IT trends overseas including

US and Europe as well as Asia countries2. WG2: Data center energy efficiency indicator• Review on the evaluation and measurement

methods with respects to the energy conservation effect

3. WG3: Evaluation of methods for evaluating corporate contribution

• Review on the quantitative evaluation and measurement methods on the degree of the environmental contribution of the corporate unit

Discussed on the forecast of the Green IT contribution in Japan including energy conservation contribution from IT equipment/server (of IT) and energy conservation effect through IT for the society (by IT).

Lecture 4Title: Contribution of Green IT to Low-Carbon Society by IT (2) – Data Center Energy Efficiency MetricsPresenter: Mr. Takeshi UeoroExecutive Manager, Data Center Business Unit, NTT Data CorporationVice Chairman, Green IT Promotion Council: Survey and Evaluation Committee

Discussed on the need of new energy efficiency metrics. The existing evaluation metric, PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) developed by the Green Grid measures the facility efficiency of the data center.

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) = Total data center power consumption divided by Power consumed by IT equipment

So, there is a need for a new metric that can evaluate the data center itself. As such, Japan through GIPC developed a new metric called Datacenter Performance Per Energy (DPPE) that indicates the total energy efficiency of a data center.

The goals of the new metrics are:• To promote energy conservation for facilities• To promote the utilization of natural energy

(renewal energy)• To promote energy conservation for IT

equipment in use in data centers• To promote energy conservation through

operation

Japan proposed to make DPPE as one of the world standard for data center measurement. The trial of this new measurement started in 2010 until now. Since 2009, GIPC and US/EU organizations (private and public) continuously hold workshops for global harmonization of metrics of data center energy efficiency. GIPC has proposed DPPE in the workshops and more discussion to be held. At this moment, no other Asian countries involved in these workshops.

Lecture 5Title: Trends in Green IT-related TechnologiesPresenter: Mr. Shigeo TachibanaSenior Manager, Corporate Research &Development Center,OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd

Discussed on the Enterprise Energy Management System (EEMS) framework and structure. The revision of the law concerning the rational use of energy (2009), ISO50001 was established as an international standard in 2011. In the revised law, the coverage changed from the focus on each business location to each company as a whole. Individually, there is already existing xEMS such as BEMS (Building Energy Management System) and FEMS (Factory Energy Management System) in place where the system is connected by network to visualize and monitor energy use and power conservation conditions. The goals of the system are to optimize the energy consumption and to reduce cost.

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14th October 2011

Country Presentation (Final)- Discussed on the lesson learned and propose

way forward plan

1. ChinaPresenter: Mr. Hou Ming, Deputy Director, China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (CECC)

Discussed on some of the focus areas of Green IT that can be improved based on the lesson learned from Japan.• Ways of promotion through collaborations and

conference/forum - Some of difficulties of promotion are social

support, funding and concern about ROI• Possible cooperation with GIPC and further

cooperation with JEITA• Government to government cooperation and

support

2. IndiaPresenter: Mr. H. R. Prassana Subramanya, VP Strategic Account, inTarvo Technologies Ltd

Based on the lesson learned from the training, some of the action plans that can be implemented are:• Encourage off site /video conferencing to

reduce travel• Adjust operation hours and staggered holidays• Optimization of cooling, lighting and usage

of energy of IT equipment especially in data centers

• Promote utilization of natural energy such as usage of solar panel

• Cooperation with the Japanese companies in India as well as Government to Government discussion.

3. IndonesiaPresenter: Ms. Nathalia Devina Widjaja,

BINUS University

There is high readiness level in Japan because high level of awareness of the people and companies on the need to conserve energy, the availability of the technology as well as good support from the Government.

However, there is no discussion on e-waste management during the training since they felt that e-waste management would be one of the important focus areas in Indonesia.They would like to propose to the Indonesian Government on the establishment of Green IT Council consists of the Government, Industry as well as Education and Society.

4. MalaysiaPresenter: Mr. Nur Faezal Elias, Chairman, MTSFB Green ICT Working Group

Discussed on some of the way forward proposal in promoting Green IT in Malaysia• To work closely with GIPC in term of workgroup

collaboration, forum as well as forming strategic alliance for knowledge-sharing and investment opportunities

• To adopt relevant standards and best practices of GIPC

• To seek assistance from members of JEITA via GIPC for proof of concept projects and to invest in Green IT projects in Malaysia

• To work closely with AOTS member country, starting with ASEAN by forming strategic alliance and workgroup collaboration

5. PhilippinesPresenter: Mr. Arthur I. Ledonio, EMS Components Assembly Inc

Some of the plans and recommendations related to Green IT for Philippines are:• To introduce power consumption index (or EnPI)

as KPI• To implement energy saving solutions “for IT”

and “by IT” such as buying energy efficient hardware (LED lights), use power management best practices for computers, use virtualization technology, and optimize data center design

• To educate Filipinos on Green IT initiatives through training, dissemination of data to public, and support Green IT campaigns

• To study and consider new alternative energy sources such as solar ebergy, wave energy and clean energy (Bloom energy www.bloomenergy.com)

6. ThailandPresenter: Mr. Kiattiporn Wangpattarapong, Electrical and Electronics Institute (EEI)

The main focus area for Green IT in Thailand will be in Application. EEI will further expand their implementation of IT application to more industries in the effort to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission.

Some other plan they would like to focus are:• To promote energy management system

(ISO50001)• To promote the use of cloud computing• To develop new system similar to BEMS/FEMS

However, there are still problems they need to tackle such as• Lack of expertise • Lack of Research and Development• Cost of product increase

7. VietnamPresenter: Mr. Nguyen Nhu Trang, Deputy General Secretary, Vietnam Electronic Industries Association

Interested to know on how RFID can be a solution in Green IT, but it was not discussed in the training.Vietnam chooses to focus on the area of cloud computing in business process, factory and

community.They would also like to propose to their government to increase electricity price for low energy efficiency factories/data centers and to reduce electricity price for high energy efficiency factories/data centers.

8. SingaporePresenter: Mr. Kelvin See Choon Kiat, Maple Investment

In Singapore, the focus areas are:• Concentration of all data centers in single

building - Using central chiller system• Setting up more business parks to all zones in Singapore - Better efficiency and low operation cost, but

high initial cost

Their Mapletree Business City which was completed in 2010 use some of the Green IT system such as BEMS from Yamatake. Based on the experience, the system deployed in the business city is very reliable and efficient in controlling energy consumption, but the initial cost is very high.

4.2 Technical Visits

As part of the training, technical visits was arranged by AOTS for the following:• Visit to cutting edge technology exhibition• Visit to companies involved in energy saving

efforts and Green IT

For the visitation to companies involved in energy saving efforts and Green IT, the participants are divided into three (3) groups related to subject of interest:• Group 1: Data Center• Group 2: Public Services/Buildings• Group 3: Plant Industry

8th October 2011

Visit to CEATEC Japan 2011 CEATEC – Combined Exhibition of Advanced TechnologyVenue: Makuhari Messe, Tokyo

Official arrangement had been made to visit three (3) companies’ booths, namely Panasonic, SONY and NEC Corporation as well as visit to GIPC booth. For this visit, an interpreter was assigned to each group.

Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC) Booth

CEATEC showcase the newest technologies, products, systems and software for the digital network age, and the convergence of communications, information and imaging technologies as well as the industries’ latest achievements and trends. The exhibition is divided into several themes such as Smart Community Innovation, Home & Personal Zone, Business & Society Zone, ICT Suite etc.

Panasonic

Showcasing their latest energy-saving products such as Digital AV products, home appliances, system and equipment products etc. It positions “environment” as a core of all its business activities, aiming to become No. 1 Green Innovation Company in the electronics industry.

Some of Panasonic Home Appliances

Panasonic Booth

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Listening to explanation by Panasonic rep

Smart Home Appliances system

Panasonic is also exhibiting the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town Project that it is using to promote the construction of an eco-conscious town in Kanagawa Prefecture’s Fujisawa City. In this project, Fujisawa City will work with each of its partner companies to use energy creation, conservation, and storage technologies to transform the entire city into a smart town. The town opening is planned for 2013 with the development of about 1,000 next-generation homes.

SONY

SONY is providing users’ experience which converge its latest products including LCD TV, PC, Tablet, Smartphone and Digital Camera.

NEC Corporation

Their exhibition includes• Smart Lifestyle – advanced lifestyle achieved

by cloud devices such visualization of home electricity consumption, smart mobile cloud, smart communication services etc

• Smart Cities – home accumulation-of-electricity system, EV (Electric Vehicle) quick charger, electric vehicle equipped with high-performance lithium-ion batteries

Home Energy Management System with Cloud

Other exhibitors at CEATEC Japan 2011 12th October 2011

Technical Visit to Companies – Day 1

For this visit, the participants are divided into three (3) groups:• Group 1: Data Center – visit IDC Frontier Inc.,

Tokyo Shinjuku Data Center• Group 2: Public Services/Buildings – visit

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Yamatake Corporation

• Group 3: Plant Industry – visit Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Plant and Omika Plant

I and Dr. Mahendra (MMU) were in Group 2, while Nur Faezal (NFE Consulting) was in Group 1. During the visit, no picture is allowed to be taken within the company’s compound.

Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInformation Technology R&D Center5-1-1, Ofuna, kamakura, Kanagawa 247-8501, Japan

The Information Technology R&D Center consists of the following:• Information Technology Laboratory – security

(encryption), data management, system architecture, and embedded system

• Communication Laboratory – optical and wireless transmission and communications system

• Multimedia Laboratory – image processing, speech/language processing, display, total security

• Electro-Optics & Microwave Systems laboratory – radar, antenna, microwave circuit, and laser/optical

Tour of Smart House• Showcase their smart house lab• Complete system including Home Energy

Management System (HEMS) connected to cloud – able to control the energy consumption. If the power exceeded the set value, some of

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appliances in the house will be automatically shut down.

• Solar energy• Various sensors – earthquake, motion,

illumination

Difficulties in understanding the information since the presentation and explanation were done in Japanese and we didn’t have any interpreter to assist in the translation.

Yamatake Corporation (Azbil Corporation)Fujisawa Technology Center

The Azbil Group is expanding the scope of its business activities, centered on the three core businesses of Building Automation, Advanced Automation and Life Automation.

During the visit, the participants were given a presentation on the Yamatake’s business profile.

We were also given tour of the building (Building No. 100) that had been certified by Ministry Land, Infrastructure, Land, and Tourism as CASBEE S-Class. CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Build Environment Efficiency) is similar to LEED/BREEAM/GBI/Green Mark.

Some of the features and system deployed in Building No. 100 are:

• Utilizing natural energy – natural lighting, natural draft, cooling with outside air, reuse rainwater for toilet flush (reduce water consumption by 60%)

• Defending elemental forces – heat insulating glass (reduce radiant energy by 33%), sun protection louver (making shadow – preventing direct sunlight)

• Utilizing Building Energy Management System (BEMS) – able to measure current data, visualize data and analyse, and apply counter measure

• Automatic Lighting Control System – illumination sensor (according to outside light) and motion detector

• Energy saving applications for HVAC (Heat, Valve, Air Condition) – combination of sensors, controllers, and valve (able to reduce energy by 31%)

• Using eco-material• Durable structuring –higher floor height,

strengthened floor loading, flexibility for future design changeability, high-graded reinforced concrete floor for earthquake resistance (A Grade Aseismic capacity)

13th October 2011

Technical Visit to Companies – Day 2

Again, for this visit, the participants are divided into three (3) groups:• Group 1: Data Center – visit NTT DATA – Data

Center at Mitaka Building and at Otemachi Building

• Group 2: Public Services/Buildings – visit Panasonic Corporation Tokyo and NEC Corporation Tamagawa Office

• Group 3: Plant Industry – visit Yokogawa Electric Corporation Kofu Plant

I was in Group 1, Nur Faezal in Group 2, and Mahendra in Group 3. During the visit, no picture is allowed to be taken within the company’s compound.

NTT DATA CORPORATION1) Data Center at Mitaka Building

NTT DATA Group owns 18 buildings with total floor area of ca. 680,000 m2 nationwide. Data center at Mitaka building has floor space of ca. 50,000 m2.

The Green Data Center® project by NTT was started in 2008 with the target of reducing the power consumption of about 30%.

The Mitaka Building Green Data Center® has the

following features:• High efficiency air conditioning (AC) design - Configure the racks with the introduction of

cold aisle and hot aisle. This will reduce the amount of energy required by AC to cool the area.

- Introduction of aisle capping equipment integrating anti seismic element. By limiting cooling space to the closed space, more efficient cooling can be achieved (30% reduction in power consumption by air conditioning). “Aisle capping” is a registered trademark of NTT Facilities Corporation.

• Use of LED lights• Use of solar power panel. Solar power panel are

located at three (3) different locations on the rooftop. The energy generated from the solar panel (about 60kW) is only use for common lighting and cleaning purposes only. The cost saving by using the solar energy is about ¥1,000,000 per year.

2) Data center at Otemachi Building

At the Otemachi Building’s data center, the participants were given a presentation on one of the technologies developed by NTT towards the Green IT project, which is the HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) equipment. It is claimed that by using this HPDC, the efficiency of 90% or more can be achieved. This is because the DC to AC and back to DC can be eliminated, thus able to increase the efficiency from 70% to 90%.

5. Lessons Learned & Feedback

1. The participants enhanced their understanding of the concept of Green IT; Green of IT (energy conservation of IT equipment) and Green by IT (energy conservation by the society through IT).

2. High readiness level in Japan because high level of awareness of the people and companies on the need to conserve energy, the availability of the technology as well as good support from the Government

3. The success of the Green IT Promotion Council (GIPC) is due to full cooperation between the industry players, academia, and the Government.

4. GIPC is an organization that has clear mission and vision, as well as well-defined policy, strategy, and implementation group. It is well supported by the industry players and the Government.

5. The energy-saving initiatives and high level of awareness are as the result of the effect by the earthquake and tsunami disaster. The Government has given directives to industry and society to reduce the energy consumption by 20% to deter major blackout occurrences.

6. Japan has the necessary ecosystem to ensure the success of their Green IT. The industry has own R&D that enable them to develop technology that would help them to achieve the reduction in energy consumption. The willingness of the society to make the necessary sacrifices in order to have better and comfortable living

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condition. 7. Through their R&D effort, they able to develop

new ways of energy conservation as well as improve the existing metrics and measurement in the calculation of energy consumption and saving.

6. Next Step & Action PlanRefer Table 1.

7. Recommendations

The training/workshop would enable us to have better understanding on the initiatives by other countries in the energy conservation effort which would contribute to the reduction of CO2 emission. Some of the initiatives done in Japan can be adopted in Malaysia and further collaboration among the countries in Asia would contribute to greener world.

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12th MEETING OFWORKING PARTY 5D ON “IMT SYSTEMS”

12 - 19 OCTOBER 2011

Goa, India

ABSTRACT

This report describes the outcome from the twelfth meeting working party 5D (WP 5D) on International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) systems which was held in Goa, India from 12 to 19 October 2011. The meeting was attended by 207 delegates representing 25 Member States (Administrations) and 22 Sector Members and Associates (industrial organizations). Malaysian delegates were from MCMC and a representative from IMT WG. This report consists of section on IMT-Advanced which is briefly reviewed, followed by the background on WP 5D and its function in the development of the standards. Three mainaspects discussed during the meeting such as

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Table 0: List of participants

spectrum aspect, technology aspect and general aspect are explained in details. It is hoped that this report will benefit the Malaysia IMT working group.

INTRODUCTION

A. IMT-AdvancedIMT-Advanced systems are mobile systems that include the new capabilities of IMT that go beyond those of IMT-2000. Such systems provide access to a wide range of telecommunication services including advanced mobile services, supported by mobile and fixed networks, which are increasingly packet-based. IMT-Advanced systems support low to high mobility applications and a wide range of data rates in accordance

with user and service demands in multiple user environments. IMT-Advanced also has capabilities for high quality multimedia applications within a wide range of services and platforms, providing a significant improvement in performance and quality of service.

The key features of IMT-Advanced are listed in Table 1.

B. IMT-2000 and IMT-AdvancedInternational Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) systems provide access to a wide range of telecommunication services, supported by the fixed telecommunication networks (e.g. PSTN/ISDN/IP), and to other services which are specific to mobile users. To meet the ever increasing demand for wireless communication (e.g. increased no. of users, higher data rates, video or gaming services which require increased quality of service, etc.), IMT-2000 has been, and continues to be, enhanced. Figure 1 below illustrates the connection between IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced. This famous van diagram taken directly from Recommendation ITU-R M.1645 and reflects the terminology in use at the time of its adoption. Resolution ITU-R 56 defines the relationship between “IMT-2000”, the future development of IMT-2000 and “systems beyond IMT-2000” for which it also provides a new name: IMT-Advanced. Resolution ITU-R 56

Category Key feature

Commonality A high degree of commonality of functionality worldwide while retaining the flexibility to support a wide range of services and applications in a cost efficient manner.

Compatibility Compatibility of services within IMT and with fixed networks.

Interworking Capability of interworking with other radio access systems and user equipment suitability for worldwide use with globally roaming.

Data rates Enhanced peak data rates to support advanced services and applications (100 Mbit/s for high and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility were established as targets for research)1by Encik Mohd Mokhtar Daud

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resolves that the term IMT-2000 encompasses also its enhancements and future developments. The term “IMT-Advanced” should be applied to those systems, system components, and relatedaspects that include new radio interface(s) that support the new capabilities of systems beyond IMT-2000. The term “IMT” is the root name that encompasses both IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced collectively, hence IMT systems.

BACKGROUNDIn this section, a brief background of ITU-R study group structure and Working Party 5D(WP 5D) is described as well as the process and schedule on the development towardsIMT-Advanced standards. This is reported in order to assist the understanding of thefunction of WP 5D.

A. ITU-R study group structureThe International Telecommunication Union for Radiocommunication (ITU-R) is formed from several study groups (SG) that are responsible in activities related to the specific radio spectrum. WP 5D in this structure is categorized under study group 5 for terrestrial services. This is illustrated in Figure 2.

B. Working Party 5DWP 5D covers several aspects of the IMT systems

Figure 1: IMT systems

such as the spectrum, general and technology. Figure 3 shows the WP 5D area of responsibilities. In this report, each of the aspects discussed during the 12th meeting will be explained in details.

C. IMT-Advanced schedule for development of standardsThe following Figure 4 summarizes the development process of IMT-Advanced from the

timeframe of 2006 till 2013. The meeting #12 is significant because the first release of IMT.R SPEC will be finalized before it can be forwarded to radio assembly (RA) and also during the world radio conference (WRC) 2012.

Studies will be required to determine the overall objectives of future IMT systems and their development in the long term, particularly at the

Figure 2: ITU-R study groups structure

Figure 3: WP 5D responsible for several aspects of IMT systems Figure 4: IMT-Advanced schedule of development standards.

time of finalizing the first release of IMT-Advanced during 2011. WP5D is working to develop a new report [IMT.UPDATE], with the objective to review the framework and market forecasts for IMT that were developed in previous study periods (2000/2007), by making an assessment of the current perspectives of the future needs of wireless / mobile broadband to be supported by the IMT for the next ten years (2012-2022).

D. The 12th MeetingThe main objective of the 12th meeting as compared to previous WP 5D meetings (table 2) is basically to review and agrees on the completed preliminary draft new recommendation (PDNR) before it can be forwarded to a higher level that is study group 5.

In details, for this 12th meeting the following agenda items (Table 3) were discussed. With reference to the Table 3, the following sections in this report highlight the outcome of these discussions on each of the aspects.

SPECTRUM ASPECT

A. OverviewThe discussion categorized under spectrum aspects is divided into several sub-categories. This

Table 2: WP 5D previous meeting objectives

Table 3: 12th meeting agenda items and objectives

is shown below in Figure 5.

B. Frequency arrangementDuring the 12th meeting, the important agenda that need to be accomplished was the finalization on the draft Revision 3 of Recommendation

Aspect Description

Spectrum Finalization on the draft Revision 3 of Recommendation ITU-R M.1036,“Frequency arrangements for implementation of the terrestrial componentof IMT in the bands identified for IMT in the Radio Regulations (RR)”.Finalization on the draft Recommendation ITU-R M.[IMT.MITIGATION],“Techniques designed to increase the potential for sharing between IMTsystems and FSS networks in the 3.4-3.6 GHz band”.Finalization on the draft new Report “On the coexistence studies in relationto Resolution 224 and Question 229 in the bands 790-862 and 698-806MHz”.

Technology Finalization on draft new Recommendation ITU-R M.[IMT.RSPEC] “Detailedspecifications of the terrestrial radio interfaces of IMT-Advanced” .Finalization on the draft revision of Recommendation ITU-R M.1579 onGlobal Circulation of IMT-2000 Terminals to remove the satellitecomponent.Finalization on the draft new Report ITU-R M.[IMT.CRS] “Cognitive RadioSystems Specific to IMT Systems” specific to IMT Systems.

General Finalization on the draft new Report ITU-R M.[IMT.UPDATE] “Assessmentof global mobile broadband deployments and forecasts for IMT”.

Meeting # Agenda

6 Review of candidate technology

7 Consideration and examination of candidate technology (preliminary)

8 Final consideration development by WP 5D evaluation, initial consideration on decisions on IMT-Advanced technology

9 WP 5D decision on IMT-Advanced, finalization of consensus building

10 WP 5D finalizes and preliminarily agrees draft new Rec. ITU-R M.[IMT.xxxx]

11 WP 5D addresses responses from External Organizations on draft new Rec.ITU-R M.[IMT.Rxxx]

12 WP 5D reviews and agrees the completed draft new Rec. ITU-R M.[IMT.Rxxx] and forwards to Study Group 5

Figure 5: Spectrum aspect categories

ITU-R M.1036, which was about “Frequency arrangements for implementation of the terrestrial component of IMT in the bands identified for IMT in the Radio Regulations (RR)”. Following this objective, it is important to review what are the identified IMT bands and Malaysia current usage with respect to IMT technologies.

B.1 Frequency arrangement in band 450 – 470 MHzThe recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 450- 470

Table 4: Identified IMT band by radio regulations (RR)

MHz are summarized in Table 5 and in Figure 6 as referred to the preliminary draft of ITU-R M.1036-3. It is also part of the main Recommendation ITU-R M.1036 and the complete Recommendation should be considered in its entirety when implementing frequency arrangements as well as the recommended guidelines.

NOTE 1 –The number of frequency arrangements given in the table above reflects the fact that administrations have had to accommodate incumbent operations, while for example maintaining a common uplink/downlink structure (uplink in the lower 10 MHz, downlink in the upper 10 MHz) for FDD arrangements.NOTE 2 –Arrangements D7,D8 and D9 can be implemented by administrations that have the whole 450-470 MHz band available for IMT. Arrangement D8 can also be implemented by administrations having only a subset of the band available for IMT.

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Table 5: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 450-470 MHz

NOTE 1 –The number of frequency arrangements given in the table above reflects the fact that administrations have had to accommodate incumbent operations, while for example maintaining a common uplink/downlink structure

(uplink in the lower 10 MHz, downlink in the upper 10 MHz) for FDD arrangements.

NOTE 2 –Arrangements D7,D8 and D9 can be implemented by administrations that have the whole 450-470 MHz band available for IMT. Arrangement D8 can also be implemented by administrations having only a subset of the band available for IMT.

B.2 Frequency arrangement in the band 698 – 960 MHzThe recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 698-960 MHz are summarized in Table 6 and in Figure 7 below. In this frequency arrangement, the Resolution 646 (WRC-03) encourages administrations to consider the following identified frequency bands, amongst others, for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) when undertaking their national planning:– in Region 2: 746-806 MHz, 806-869 MHz;– in Region 3: 806-824/851-869 MHz,and “that the identification of the above frequency bands/ranges for PPDR does not preclude the use of these bands/frequencies

Figure 6: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 450-470 MHz

by any application within the services to which these bands/frequencies are allocated and does not preclude the use of nor establish priority over any other frequencies for public protection and disaster relief in accordance with the Radio Regulations”.

Notes to Table 6:NOTE 1 – Due to the different usage in the bands 698-960 MHz between Regions, there is no common solution possible at this time.

Table 6: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 698-960 MHz

NOTE 2 – In A3, IMT systems are operating in FDD mode and use a reversed duplex direction, with mobile terminal transmit within the upper band and base station transmit within the lower band. Such an arrangement provides better conditions for coexistence with the lower adjacent broadcasting service.

It is noted that Administrations which do not wish to use this plan or which do not have the fullband 790-862 MHz available may consider other frequency arrangements including e.g. partial implementation of frequency arrangement described in A3, a TDD frequency arrangement (with a guard band of at least 7 MHz above 790 MHz) or a mixed introduction of TDD and FDD frequency arrangements.

NOTE 3 – In A4, administrations can use the band solely for FDD or TDD, or some combination of FDD and TDD. Administrations can use any FDD

duplex spacing or FDD duplex direction. However, when administrations choose to deploy mixed FDD/TDD channels with a fixed duplex separation for FDD, the duplex separation and duplex direction as shown in A4 are preferred. Individual band blocks in the mixed channel arrangement may include further subdivisions to accommodate both duplex methods.

NOTE 4– The frequency arrangements for the band 698-960 MHz have been developed taking into consideration the recognizing above.

The frequency arrangements for PPDR systems using IMT technologies in the bands identified in Resolution 646 (WRC-03), according to considering h) and resolves 6 of that Resolution

Figure 7: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 698-960 MHz

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are outside the scope of this Recommendation. There are inherent benefits of deploying IMT technologies for PPDR applications in this band, including advantages of large coverage area and possible interoperability across the 700 and 800 MHz bands, noting the differences in operational requirements and implementations.

NOTE5– In A5, 2 x 45 MHz FDD arrangement is implemented by using sub blocks with dual duplexer solution and conventional duplex arrangement. Internal guard bands of 5 MHz and 3 MHz are provided at the lower and upper edge of the band for better co-existence with adjacent radio communication services.

NOTE 6 – In A6, taking into account the external 4 MHz guard band (694-698 MHz), a minimum internal guard-band of 5 MHz at the lower edge (698 MHz) and 3 MHz at the upper edge (806 MHz) needs to be considered.

B.3 Frequency arrangement in the band 1710 – 2200 MHz3The recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 1 710-2 200 MHz are summarized in Table 7 and in Figure 8.

Note 1: In the band 1 710-2 025 MHz and 2 110-2 200 MHz three basic frequency arrangements(B1, B2 and B3) are already in use by public mobile cellular systems including IMT. Based on these three arrangements, different combinations of arrangements are recommended as described in B4 and B5. The B1 arrangement and the B2 arrangement are fully complementary, whereas the B3 arrangement partly overlaps with the B1 and B2 arrangements. For administrations havingimplemented the B1 arrangement, B4 enables optimization of the use of spectrum for paired IMT operation. For administrations having implemented the B3 arrangement, the B1 arrangement can be combined with the B2 arrangement. B5 is therefore recommended to optimize the use of the spectrum: B5 enables

Table 7: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 1710-2200 MHz

the use of spectrum to be maximized for IMT in administrations where B3 is implemented and where the band 1 770-1 850 MHz is not available in the initial phase of deployment of IMT in this frequency band.

Note 2: TDD may be introduced in unpaired bands and also under certain conditions in the uplink bands of paired frequency arrangements and/or in the centre gap between paired bands.

Note 3: If selectable/variable duplex technology is implemented within terminals as the most efficient way to manage different frequency arrangements, the fact that neighbouring administrations could select B5 will have no impact on the complexity of the terminal. Further studies are necessary.

Figure 8: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 1710-2200 MHz

B.4 Frequency arrangement in the band 2300 – 2400 MHzThe recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 2 300-2 400 MHz are summarized in Table 8 and in Figure 9.

Table 8: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 2300-2400 MHz

Figure 9: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 2300-2400 MHz

Table 9: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 2500-2690 MHz (not including the satellite component)

B.5 Frequency arrangement in the band 2500 – 2690 MHzThe recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 2 500-2 690 MHz are summarized in Table 9 and in Figure 10.

NOTE 1 – In C1, in order to facilitate deployment of FDD equipment any guardbands required to ensure adjacent band compatibility at the 2 570 MHz and 2 620 MHz boundaries will be decided on a national basis and will be taken within the band 2 570-2 620 MHz and should be kept to theminimum necessary, based on Report ITU-R M.2045.

NOTE 2 – In C3, administrations can use the band solely for FDD or TDD or some combination of TDD and FDD. Administrations can use any FDD duplex spacing or FDD duplex direction. However,when administrations choose to deploy mixed FDD/TDD channels with a fixed duplex separationfor FDD, the duplex separation and duplex direction as shown in C1 are preferred.

B.6 Frequency arrangement in the band 3400 – 3600 MHzThe recommended frequency arrangements for implementation of IMT in the band 3 400-3 600 MHz are summarized in Table 10 and in Figure 11.

Figure 10: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 2500-2690 MHz

Table 10: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 3400-3600 MHz

Figure 11: Frequency arrangement in the band plan for 3400-3600 MHz

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C. Spectrum sharingThis section briefly reports about the spectrum sharing scenarios that have been put into studies on the preliminary draft new report “On the coexistence studies in relation to Resolution 224 and Question 229 in the bands 790-862 and 698-806 MHz”. Further detail on the parameters can be obtained from the respective document.

The scope of this PDNR spectrum sharing report is to provide sharing study results in relation with ITU-R Resolution 224 (in complement to those already performed under Resolution 749 (WRC-07)). The objective of the sharing studies is to assess the degree of compatibility between IMT systems operating in the frequency bands 790-862 MHz or 698-806 MHz and systems of other services operating in the same or adjacent band.These studies also contain compatibility scenarios involving the mobile service only (between systems with different technical characteristics). More precisely, this Report addresses the following scenarios:

1. Potential interference in the bands 790-862 and 698-806 MHz caused by the cochannel or adjacent channel operation of the broadcasting service, the aeronautical radio navigation service, the fixed service or other mobile systems, to IMT systems.

2. Compatibility between other mobile systems and IMT systems

3. Compatibility between different IMT systems This PDNR coexistence report also provides guidance to ensure compatibility between the involved services. These guidelines will include interpretation and clarification of appropriate mobile parameters and methodologies to be used for compatibility studies.

C.1 Interference scenarios between IMT systemsThis section reports the interference studies

scenario between LTE FDD and TDD systems in the upper UHF band. In general, the interference scenarios between LTE FDD and LTE TDD include (Figure 12):

- Base station to UE interference (BTS-UE) (Case 1).

- UE to base station interference (UE-BTS) (Case 2).

- Base station to base station interference (BTS-BTS) (Case 3).

- UE to UE interference (UE-UE) (Case 4).

Figure 12: LTE TDD and LTE FDD interference scenarios

C.2 Interference scenarios between IMT systems and other mobile systemsWiMAX TDD is chosen as an IMT TDD system, and PPDR/LMR is a mobile system. It is assumed that WiMAX TDD is operating at the uppermost channel in the 698-806 MHz band (i.e. in the channel 798-803 MHz, assuming a 3 MHz guard band between WiMAX TDD and PPDR/LMR) and PPDR/LMR is operating above 806 MHz. Therefore, only the adjacent band scenario is considered.

The following Figure 13 shows the interference scenarios between WiMAX TDD and PPDR/LMR systems. Since the scope of this study only considers interference to the IMT system, Case 3 and Case 4 are studied.

Figure 13: Interference Scenarios between PPDR/LMR and WiMAX TDD

C.3 Interference scenarios between IMT systems and broadcasting serviceThere are three main scenarios whereby the studies of interference between IMT systems and broadcasting service were conducted. Figure 14, 15, 16 and 17 illustrates such studies.

Figure 14: Simulation environment for interference studies between IMT system and DTV

Figure 15: Simulation environment for sharing studies between IMT system and ATSC

Figure 16: Interference scenarios from DTMB system to LTE TDD

C.4 Interference scenarios between IMT systems and aeronautical radionavigation services (ARNS)

The following interference cases are studied in this spectrum sharing report.• Airborne ARNS to MS base stations (case 1)

Figure 17: DTMB System Interfering with LTE TDD in the same geographical area

Figure 18: Interference scenarios between IMT systems with ARNS

• Airborne ARNS to MS user terminals (case 2)• ARNS ground stations to MS base stations (case

3)• ARNS ground stations to MS user terminals

(case 4)

Further details on this spectrum sharing studies can be referred to the draft document.

D. MitigationThis section briefly reports on the draft Recommendation ITU-R M.[IMT.MITIGATION], “Techniques designed to increase the potential for sharing between IMT systems and FSS networks in the 3.4-3.6 GHz band”. For further details, readers are recommended to refer to the document. This Recommendation describes techniques that may be used to improve the compatibility between transmitting IMT base stations and receiving FSS earth stations, both operating in the 3 400-3 600

MHz band. Mitigation techniques to improve the potential of sharing are listed as follows:

D.1 Sector disablingThe aim of this technique is to reduce the transmitted output power of base stations in the direction of the interfered-with FSS earth station. Generally, IMT base stations utilize -sectoral antennas (e.g., 3- and 6-sector configuration). Accordingly, one way to reduce the transmitted output power level in the direction of an interfered-with FSS earth station could be to disable the antenna sector that points towards the FSS earth station, noting that such an area would be served through the use of frequency bands other than 3 400- 3 600 MHz identified for IMT through proper frequency planning. The application of this method to any particular system will depend greatly on the frequencies available to it, the capabilities of the system and the operating parameters of the receiving FSS earth station, e.g. the earth station’s pointing angle and location.

Figure 19: Sector configuration

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Figure 20: Concept of MIMO mitigation technique with feedback information

Figure 21: Concept of physical obstruction interference mitigation technique

Figure 22: Illustration of double barriers technique with sloped barriers

D.2 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) with feedback informationFigure 20 shows the concept of the MIMO mitigation technique that uses feedback information. In this technique, the feedback information is the channel propagation conditions (i.e., amplitude and phase variations) between the IMT base station and the FSS earth station. In accordance with the feedback information, the IMT base station transmits the weighted signals among multiple antennas in order to suppress interference signal power onto the FSS earth station and enhance the desired signal power into an IMT mobile terminal. With this method a sensing device/circuit is installed into an FSS earth station and channel propagation conditions are fed back to the IMT base station via communication links prepared for this purpose. In the evaluation, the received interference signal power level at an FSS earth station and the received desired signal power level at an IMT mobile station were measured, respectively, under the conditions with and without the MIMO mitigation technique with feedback information.

D.3 Shielding techniquesThere are three shielding interference mitigation techniques will be recommended. There are described as follows:

Physical obstructionPhysical obstruction is a simple interference mitigation technique, as illustrated in Figure 21. The principle is to block the line of sight interference from an interferencesource, for example, an IMT base station.

Double barriersTwo examples of double barriers are, one with sloped barriers (Figure 22), and the other with absorbing material. Double barriers are an efficient solution method to mitigate the interferences from two diametrically opposed sources.

Mesh gridMesh grid is an efficient solution for mitigating interference from numerous sources randomly distributed in a sector around the victim earth station. The use of a mesh grid is an efficient solution method to mitigate interference from numerous sources randomly distributed in a sector around the victim earth station.

TECHNOLOGY ASPECTA. OverviewThe discussion categorized under technology aspect is divided into two sub-categories. This is shown below in Figure 23. Under the category of radio aspect, two draft report on cognitive radiosystem (CRS) and public protection disaster relief (PPDR) were completed. For the other category that is IMT-specification describe about the recommended radio interface technology (RIT) for IMT-Advanced in addition to IMT-2000 RIT.

Figure 23: Technology aspect categories

Table 12: WirelessMAN-Advanced specification

specific spectrum/duplex arrangement. Both the FDD RIT and the TDD RIT individually, and consequently the Set of RITs (SRIT), meet all the ITU IMT-Advanced minimum requirements in all four test environments defined in all aspects of Services, Spectrum and Technical performance. Furthermore, both the FDD RIT and TDD RIT individually, and consequently the SRIT, meet therequirements of Resolution ITU-R 57, resolves 6 e) and f) in all four test environments. The common parameters for both FDD and TDD parameters are summarized in Table 11.

B.2 WirelessMAN-AdvancedThe second recommended RIT is identified as WirelessMAN-Advanced. Its radio interface specification is developed by IEEE. A complete end-to-end system based on WirelessMAN-Advanced is called WiMAX 2, as developed by the WiMAX Forum. Table 12 summarized the physical layer specification for WirelessMAN-Advanced.

B. IMT-SpecificationsThe preliminary draft new recommendation (PDNR) ITU-R M.[IMT.RSPEC] details about the specifications of the terrestrial radio interfaces of IMT-Advanced. The document recommends that the terrestrial radio interfaces of IMT-Advanced are “LTE-Advanced” and “WirelessMAN-Advanced”. This Recommendation includes the capability to ensure worldwide compatibility, international roaming, and access to high-speed data services.Readers are encouraged to refer to this document for further details for the RIT parameters. However, in this report, descriptions on important parameters of these two interface technologies are enclosed.

B.1 LTE-AdvancedThe IMT-Advanced terrestrial radio interface specifications known as LTE-Advanced and based on LTE Release 10 and beyond are developed by 3GPP. LTE-Advanced is a Set of RITs (Radio Interface Technologies) consisting of one FDD RIT and one TDD RIT designed for operation in paired and unpaired spectrum, respectively. The TDD RIT is also known as TD-LTE Release 10 and Beyond or TD-LTE-Advanced. The two RITs have been jointly developed, providing a high degree of commonality while, at the same time, allowing for optimization of each RIT with respect to its

Table 11: LTE-Advanced specification

B.3 Current RIT roadmap for future update on ITU-R M.1457Table 13 lists the roadmap for current work relevant to future updates of Recommendation ITU-R M.1457. In this recommendation document, the framework includes several RITs. As time goes by, enhancement on these technologies are required.

Table 13: Current RIT future improvements

C. IMT-Cognitive radio system (CRS)The preliminary new draft report for ITU-R M. [IMT.CRS] document addresses aspects of cognitive radio systems (CRS) specific to IMT systems. It includes results of studies to determine the impact of adding cognitive radio capabilities to existing IMT systems, and analyses the benefits, challenges and impacts of CRSs in IMT, including a description of how the systems would be used in IMT system deployments and their possible impact on the use of IMT spectrum. Particular attention needs to be given to the potential applications and their impact on spectrum use. Technical aspects related to the band usage, are addressed in the document on a case-by-case basis.

It is understood that there are various CRS deployment scenarios possible for IMT systems. Nevertheless, given that IMT systems are deployed in a harmonized, global and regulated spectrum environment, the introduction of CRS capabilities

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and their applicability to IMT systems should be carefully evaluated. The following illustrations areamong few examples on how CRS can be deployed and used in the IMT systems.

C.1 Update of a network for optimized radio resource usageAn operator, operating IMT systems within its assigned spectrum resource, could manage its radio resources in a more efficient way to address the traffic load of different services on a specified radio access technology (RAT).

A CRS management entity could give the operators operating IMT systems the means for managing, in a more efficient way, the radio resources and optimizing the network performances in terms of Quality-of-Service (e.g. reduction of radio access blocking percentages, low latency, redistribution of resources among different RATs and/or minimization of interference problems on mobile terminals) within its own licensed frequency bands to handle the following example cases:

− The traffic of different applications on a specified RAT may change from one area to the other depending on the time of day. For example, in some areas with high traffic – typically in the hot spots – cells may be congested (high blocking percentages and/or high latency) while surrounding cells are less loaded or characterized by low blocking percentages and/or low latency;

− The traffic of different applications on each deployed RAT– in case of deployment of two or more RATs – in the same area may be differently distributed in time and space with respect to the ones of the other deployed RATs;

− It could happen that in a certain area IMT devices may experience interference problems (both intra system and/or inter system) which will be reported to the network. Furthermore, an operator could have an opportunity to perform flexible redistribution of resources among

different RATs within the operator’s own licensed frequency bands to maximize the overall traffic by an optimum use of spatial and temporal variations of the demand. Therefore, an operator optimizes the utilization and management of its spectrum resources in an autonomous and flexible manner based on measurements.

Figure 24: CRS for optimizing radio resource usage

C.2 Upgrade of an existing radio interface or a network with a new radio interfaceIn another scenario, radio equipment may evaluate available RATs and may perform the communication by aggregating the bandwidth allocated to each RAT. If this scenario (Figure 25) becomes possible, CRS technology would allow optimisation of frequency band usage in the IMT system.

Figure 25: CRS for optimizing radio access technology (RAT)

C.3 In-band coverage/capacity improvement by relaysThe above scenario requires solution tailored with radio environment map (REM). REM is a cognitive tool for storing environmental information

that can be used to enhance radio resource management in cognitive networks. It contains measurements by IMT devices, combined with geo-location information and reported to a central entity of the network. This entity is responsible for building a complete map by interpolating the reported geolocalized measurements so that the entire map can be exploited for radio resource optimization purposes. The transmission power of the relay is optimally configured; its coverage matching the green area (Figure 26). REM helps resolve coverage and capacity problems by supplying geo-localized information on the coverage/capacity indicators. As a remedy, it provides a means to dynamically adjust the transmit power of the relay transmitters (i.e. relay auto-configuration). Indeed, relays should be agile enough in configuration of modifications (power adjustment, beam forming capability, etc.) so relays can perform better.

Figure 26: CRS for optimizing coverage with REM

GENERAL ASPECTA. OverviewFor general aspect the finalization on the draft new Report ITU-R M.[IMT.UPDATE] “Assessment of global mobile broadband deployments and forecasts for IMT” is the main objective in this 12th meeting. This report reviews both the market and traffic forecasts for IMT that were developed in previous study periods (extending from 2000-2007) and assesses the current perspectives and future needs of mobile broadband that would besupported by IMT over the next decade (2012-

2022).It also presents new traffic forecasts taking into account new market trends and market drivers. In this section few forecast results are presented. More details information can be referred to the above-mentioned document.

B. Mobile broadband trafficMobile broadband traffic and the number of subscriptions have dramatically increased in the last few years. Figure 27 shows the growth in global mobile traffic, an increase of over two-and-a-half times (2.6-fold) in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row. The number of global mobile subscriptions has increased from 3.9 billion in 2008 to 5.3 billion in 2010. The report from the UN Broadband Commission states that mobile users grew from 740 million in year 2000 to 5.3 billion in year 2010, of which 1.8 billion were mobile broadband users.

Figure 27: Global mobile traffic (2008-2010)

Figure 28: Fixed and mobile penetration broadband in 2010

It is foreseen that future mobile broadband consumers will demand access to the same services and applications in the mobile environment as they have today in wired office or home environments, with a similar, if not identical, user experience. Therefore it is imperative to provide high data rate services as well as high quality to mobile broadband consumers. Figure 28 below indicates the fixed and mobile broadband penetrations in percentages for different regions of the world. Most notable is Africa where fixed

broadband is virtually non-existent and yet mobile broadband is growing. The Americas in Figure 28 includes North, Central and South America.

As of February 2011 there are globally 5.3 billion mobile subscriptions amongst the planet’s 6.9 billion people. Globally, it is estimated that 3.7 billion people out of the total of 6.9 billion people are connected and can be instantly in touch with each other at home, in the office or during travel. Also, more than 90% of the world’s population is under the coverage of mobile networks, which compared with the global Internet penetration of 30%, represents a huge potential for mobile broadband to become a major access enabler to Internet. In 2002 there were just two economies in the world with mobile cellular penetration over 100%. Eight years later, almost 100 economies

Figure 29: Mobile penetrations for various economies

had mobile cellular penetration over 100% – and 17 economies had penetration rates above 150%* as depicted in Figure 29.

*The 17 economies are: Anguilla, Finland, Maldives, Kuwait, St Kitts & Nevis; Oman, Russia, Suriname, Libya, Vietnam, Cayman Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Panama, Montenegro, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong (China) and Macao (China).

C. Trends contributing to increased demand for mobile broadbandRefer Table 14.

D. Mobile data traffic forecastFigure 30 illustrates a range of forecasts which have been published from various multiple external sources, and the average curve which results from this set of individual forecasts. For

Table 14: Mobile broadband contributing trends

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Figure 30: Mobile global data traffic estimates from 2011 to 2015 based on multiple sources

Figure 31: Regional traffic forecast for year 2020

many sources, forecasts in Figure 30 are based on the most up-to-date reports which were updated over the time span between the end of 2010 and May 2011.

It can be seen from Figure 30 that there are some similarities in short term estimates, but variations in the long term forecasts. Some discrepancies are related to different assumptions assumed in each forecasts. With reference to Figure 31, Asia will represent 34.3% of total world mobile traffic while Europe and The Americas (including North, Central and South America) represent 22% and 21.4%, respectively.

Finally, when looking deeper into the future beyond 2020, it is anticipated that global mobile traffic of 350 EB in 2025 (worldwide) representing a 174% increase compared to 2020. However, it should be noted that the 2025 forecasts here are given in order to show mobile traffic trends, but that the model used was designed for 2010-2020. Given this uncertainty this information should be considered as informative only at this stage.

2nd GREEN ICT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION3 NOVEMBER 2011

Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia

1. Introduction

The 2nd Green ICT Conference and Exhibition brings together leading companies as well as industry associations, government institution and non-governmental organizations committed to achieving sustainability objectives through innovative technology.

Following the conference, there will be initiatives led by industry associations and government officials to promote effective industry action and innovations to manage the risks associated with ICT and realize its potential in creating a low-carbon economy. All stakeholders are invite to share and develop ideas, launch joint initiatives, and collaborate with others – within and outside the industry.

The event was attended by Encik Nur Faezal bin Elias – Chairman of Green Information, Communications & Technology Working Group.

2. The Objectives

To provide Business stakeholders (including CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs) with a unique opportunity to learn about key strategies, best practices and solutions for developing Green ICT strategies that drive cost savings and operation efficiencies

across the organization.

By attending the conference, participant is expected to gain understanding on:

• How to get optimum benefits of green economy

• How to understand international standards, policy and initiatives of ICT sustainability through innovation

• How to assess their organization’s current ICT eco-footprint

• How to create objective standards for measurement and performance.

• How to create a plan to reduce the cost and eco-footprint of ICT operations.

• How to document the benefits (and costs) of greening ICT and the ICT greening of buildings, transport/logistics, energy networks/smart metering, smart motors, de-materialization of content, e-health, reduction of deforestation and destruction of forests (REDD), and many other applied areas of ICT.

• How to present and justify green ICT initiatives to stakeholdersby Dr. Wahidah Hashim

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Green Global Initiative Forum

Green Leader Panel

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Program Agenda

Path to Green Green e-Office Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age

Cloud Computing and Its Contribution to Climate Green Energy Business Opportunity

Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

Door Prizes Door Prizes Door Prizes

Greening Your IT Workspace Dirty Data: Energy Choices That Power Cloud Computing

Green Hospital and e-Health Readiness

Are Internet & Cloud Computing Green?

A Guide to the Conscientious Purchase, Use and Disposal of ICT

Balancing Business and CSR through Green Initiatives

Green Data Center: Mythor Reality?

National Green ICT Policy & Information

Green Economy Strategy for the Corporation

Green by ICT Green of ICT Green Economy

IETF 82 MEETINGS13 - 18 NOVEMBER 2011

Taipei, Taiwan

1. Introduction

IETF Meeting is a tri-annually event organized by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). As the main standardization body for Internet and related areas, IETF uses the platform as the place to discuss, to debate and to plan on moving forward on the proposed Internet Draft documents. Eventually the approved Internet Drafts will be released as Request for Comment (RFC) documents which form as the main standards for the Internet industry.

IETF 82 Meeting is the last of the tri-annually meetings in 2011. The event was held in Taipei, Taiwan from 13-Nov to 18-Nov-2011. Considering the fact that most of the IETF meetings were normally held in North America and Europe, this event in Taipei represents a great opportunity for those around the Asian region to participate in the event.

1.1 Objective

IPv6 Work Group has identified the IETF meeting as one of the event that will give great exposure on major development of the Internet, in general and future directions on IPv6 specifically. Since the events were attended by who’s who of the Internet community, the participants will have a chance to meet those behind the development of the Internet. More importantly, the participation is meant for the MTSFB members to play more active role in future development of Internet standards. The inaugural participation is intended as the early steps towards having Internet Draft authored or co-authored by IPv6 WG members.

1.2 Participant to the Event

MTFSB has selected Ronhazli Adam to be the sole representative for this event. Serving as the Vice Chairman in the IPv6 WG, his participation is meant to report back to the Work Group on the state of IPv6 development and its current issues.

This event was attended by a total of 1051 participants from across the globe. Majority of the participants are from US and Europe. Participations from Asian region are mainly from China, Japan and Korea.

2. Travelling Arrangement

3. Session Proceedings

The meeting proceedings are divided into a number of different tracks. There were 3 sessions for each of the day of the event except on the last day. Selections of the tracks to participate are done based on the related subjects on IPv6. There were also two plenary sessions: Technical

Plenary and O&M Plenary.

The discussions during the session revolve around the new drafts for each of the workgroup. At the end of each of the presentation on the draft, consensus was sought on whether to revise, add additional contents or ready for approval.

Day 1 – 13 Nov 2011: TutorialsThe sessions were meant to introduce the newcomers to the event. There were two sessions on tutorials:1300-1450 Newcomers’ Orientation

1500-1650 Routing, Bridging and Switching Tutorial

1600-1700 Newcomer’s Meet and Greet

The first session gave the introduction to IETF and the processes involved in the RFC and Draft. The second session touched on current development on routing, bridging and switching that will be covered in the remaining days of the event.

Day 2 – 14 Nov 2011: Meeting Sessions0900-1130 Morning Session IThere were 7 concurrent sessions were held as follow:• Applications Area Open Meeting • IPv6 Maintenance (Participated) • Benchmarking Methodology WG • RADIUS EXTensions WG • Controlling mUltiple streams for telepresence WG• Multiprotocol Label Switching WG• DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities WG

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2 13 Nov 2011 – Tutorial13:00-18:00 : Tutorial Sessions and Welcome

3 14-18 Nov 2011 – Meeting Events09:00-19:00 : Meetings

4 19 Nov 2011 – Travel back to Kuala Lumpur07:00 : Travel to Airport 09:40 : Departure from Taipei to Malaysia14:25 : Arrived back in Kuala Lumpur

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1300-1500 Afternoon Session I• Softwires WG (Participated)• Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance WG• Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks WG• Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks • Javascript Object Signing and Encryption WG

1510-1610 Afternoon Session II• Mobility EXTensions for IPv6 WG (Participated)• Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network

Infrastructure WG• Call Control UUI Service for SIP WG • Distributed Conferencing BOF • Forwarding and Control Element Separation WG• Transport Area Working Group WG

1630-1930 Technical Plenary (Participated)The Technical Plenary discusses on the topic of Interconnecting “Smart Objects with the Internet”.

Day 3 – 15 Nov 2011: Meeting Sessions0900-1130 Morning Session I• Protocol to Access WS database WG• Home Networking WG• Operations & Management Area Open Meeting • Operations and Management Area Working

Group WG • Real-Time Communication in WEB-browsers WG• Inter-Domain Routing WG• Protocol Independent Multicast WG• EAP Method Update WG• Peer to Peer Streaming Protocol WG

(Participated)

1300-1500 Afternoon Session I• Email Address Internationalization WG • Multicast Mobility WG• Transparent Interconnection of Lots of

Links WG (Participated)• IRTF Open Meeting • NETCONF Data Modeling Language WG • Dispatch WG • Common Control and Measurement Plane WG• Secure Inter-Domain Routing WG • Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG

1520-1700 Afternoon Session II• Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized

Strings WG• Multiple Interfaces WG• Softwires WG (Participated)• Geographic Location/Privacy WG• Metric Blocks for use with RTCP’s Extended

Report Framework WG• Routing Area Open Meeting

1710-1810 Afternoon Session III• Multiple Interfaces WG• Source Address Validation Improvements WG• Address Resolution for Massive numbers of

hosts in the Data center WG• Network Configuration WG (Participated)• Session Initiation Protocol Core WG• Routing Area Open Meeting• Common Authentication Technology Next

Generation WG

Day 4 – 16 Nov 2011: Meeting Sessions0900-1130 Morning Session I• WHOIS-based Extensible Internet Registration

Data Service • Network-Based Mobility Extensions WG• IPv6 Operations WG (Participated)• Binary Floor Control Protocol Bis WG • Emergency Context Resolution with Internet

Technologies WG • Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge WG• Content Delivery Networks Interconnection WG• TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions WG

drafts: tar|pdf

1300-1500 Afternoon Session I• Web Security WG• Internet Area Working Group WG• Energy Management WG• Internet Wideband Audio Codec WG• Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols

WG• Mobile Ad-hoc Networks WG• Application-Layer Traffic Optimization WG

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1510-1610 Afternoon Session II• Reputation Services WG• Transparent Interconnection of Lots of

Links WG (Participated)• Audio/Video Transport Extensions WG• Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks WG• Managed Incident Lightweight Exchange WG

1630-1930 IETF Operations and Administration PlenaryO&M Plenary is the avenue that discussed on the overall administrative matters of IETF such as the next meetings, etc. During the session, there were also Postel Award and Itojun Service Award presented to the recipient.

Day 5 – 17 Nov 2011: Meeting Sessions0900-1130 Morning Session I• Internationalized Resource Identifiers WG• Dynamic Host Configuration WG • Host Identity Protocol• MBONE Deployment WG• Real-Time Communication in WEB-

browsers WG (Participated)• Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks WG• Network Endpoint Assessment WG• Congestion Exposure WG

1300-1500 Afternoon Session I• Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of

Clock WG• IPv6 Operations WG (Participated)• Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol WG• Path Computation Element WG• Routing Area Working Group WG• Web Authorization Protocol WG

1520-1720 Afternoon Session II• Constrained RESTful Environments WG• Access Node Control Protocol WG • Global Routing Operations WG• IP Flow Information Export WG• SIP Recording WG• Multiprotocol Label Switching WG

(Participated)

• Security Area Open Meeting• Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance WG

1740-1940 Afternoon Session III• Locator/ID Separation Protocol WG • Scalable Adaptive Multicast Research Group• Diameter Maintenance and Extensions WG• Multicast Transition BOF• Verification Involving PSTN Reachability WG• Software Driven Networks BOF

(Participated)• Transport Layer Security WG• Decoupled Application Data Enroute WG

Day 6 – 18 Nov 2011: Meeting Sessions0900-1100 Morning Session I• Port Control Protocol WG• Multiparty Multimedia Session Control WG• Common Control and Measurement Plane

WG (Participated)• Kerberos WG

1120-1220 Afternoon Session I• Constrained RESTful Environments WG• IPv6 Site Renumbering WG (Participated)• Authority-to-Citizen Alert WG• Data for Reachability of Inter/tra-NetworK SIP WG• Application Bridging for Federated Access

Beyond web

1230-1330 Afternoon Session II• Constrained RESTful Environments • IPv6 Site Renumbering WG (Participated)• Data for Reachability of Inter/tra-NetworK SIP WG• Application Bridging for Federated Access

Beyond web WG

4. Findings

4.1 General Observation on Meeting Session

The discussion sessions were very much technical in nature. The participants are mostly engineers and expert in their areas. Majority of them are

involved directly or indirectly in the write up of the Internet Drafts. For some of the drafts that were already presented during the previous meetings, discussions were more focus on the new revised contents and other general comments. For the new drafts, the presenter needs to state the motivation for the draft and whether it is needed. If there are already similar RFC’s or Drafts were in development, the authors were asked to consider merging with the current work or drop the draft altogether.

4.2 Active Workgroups

There are 8 work group areas and about 130 active work groups within all of the areas. Not all of the active work groups were present during the meetings. The ones with highly active discussion in the mailing groups were mostly present during the meetings. Since IPv6 are currently among the hot topics of IETF, all of the relevant workgroups such as 6man, v6ops, softwires held their meeting in the event and mostly heavily attended. There were also active discussions at the end of each presentation on the draft documents.

4.3 Potential Areas for MTSFB Members’ Active Role

Judging from the active participation during each of the IPv6-related work group meetings, there are already too many personnel who want to champion on the future development of specifications on IPv6. There will be a lot of opponents for any new protocol proposals as there are already plenty of them being proposed. Nevertheless, there exist potential areas that MTSFB members could consider for participation. Some of these include the members’ experience in implementation of specific protocol of IPv6.

4.4 Next Course of Actions

Having been able to experience IETF Meetings

were conducted and having seen the process of development of RFC’s from their initial draft document, the following next courses of action were recommended:• IPv6 members to subscribe to relevant WG

mailing lists• To identify areas for active roles• Members to participate in giving comments to

the new drafts within the mailing lists

5. Conclusion

Participation in the IETF 82 Meetings has given great opportunity to get more knowledge on the inner working of IETF. The meeting was conducted very efficiently and focus to the main points of each of the drafts without diverting to marketing campaign from the presenters. Since IETF is the main body behind the development of Internet, the meetings presented the participants with a great avenue to learn on the latest update on future direction of Internet. Participants could also meet with the who’s who in the Internet community, especially the ones behind the eminent RFC’s such as IPv6. Through networking with these participants could give more knowledge on where MTSFB’s members could contribute and play active roles.

We would also recommend sending representatives to the event in the future. In order to ensure more effective participations in the future, the participants is expected to be familiar with the discussions of related workgroups such as v6ops, 6man, softwires, etc. In this way, the participant could play active role during the session. In the long term, it is not too ambitious target for representative of MTSFB to have Internet Draft document to his or her name.

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ITU WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL SIGNAGE12-15 DECEMBER 2011

Tokyo, Japan

1. Introduction

The Digital Signage is the ITU Workshop held in Tokyo, Japan from 13th to 14th December 2011. This workshop participant were from government staff China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam and brings together top business, industry players to share the products and technologies for digital signage.

MTSFB was represented by Nur Rashidah binti Abas Azmi – Secretary of Fixed Terminal Working Group (FT WG)

This workshop aimed at sharing ideas and insights on the advance digital signage service, best practices and standardization activities of key players. It is also intended to share use case of the digital signage service and common challenges in the wide-spread deployment of the digital signage service as new service over the broadband network

2. Trip Schedule

3. Findings

3.1 General

3.1.1 ITU-T: ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector3.1.1.1 Strategic objectives (2012-2015):• Coordination and international cooperation• Production of global standards• Bridging the standardization gap• Dissemination of information

3.1.1.2 Importance of Global Standards• Global standards essential in a complex world• Standards make things easier• Essential for international communications

and global trade• Drive competitiveness, for individual businesses

and world economy

3.1.2 Definition of Digital Signage• Network of digital displays• Provision of information, entertainment,

merchandising and advertisement• Centrally managed and addressable

Digital signage is an electronic display connecting to a network that distributes

all kinds of information to specific locations including retail stores, public spaces, and public transportation. The evolution of displays and the broad installation of wireless LAN, digital signage can deliver targeted advertisements and messages more accurately to the audiences reached by the screens. Displays and Screens with diversified designs showing advertisements and other information can be found everywhere in our daily life. Not to mention those large screens in the stations, airports, or on the streets, digital signage is also located in elevators, retail stores, universities, hotels, and hospitals. Digital signage is no longer a word referring to electronic screens showing advertisements on the street. It has become a concept for a system that can be located anywhere, both in-doors or out, of large or small scale, and using different devices and displaying all kinds of digital content.

3.1.3 Application

• Digital out-of-home advertising• Traveler information- Airports, train stations, etc• Pedestrian guidance in buildings

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2 12 December 201107:15 : Arrived at Narita, Japan10:00 : Arrived at Hotel (Akihabara, Tokyo)

3 13 December 201108:30 : Opening Ceremony11:15 : General14:45 : Standardization activities16:40 : Status and use case

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5 15 December 201111:30 : Departure from Narita Airport, Japan17:15 : Arrived at KLIA

• Cafeteria menus• In-shop information & interactivity

3.2 Standardization activities

3.2.1 Advantages of Standardization1) Advantages for newcomers- Able to implement a system without worrying

about production reworking in the future.- Able to select a model during requirement

specifications upon implementation.

2) Advantages for existing operator- Able to bring down costs when the current

system is replaced as it becomes obsolete.

3.2.2 Classification of Digital Signage

3.2.3 Problems and Solutions1) Current Problems- No rules related to content distribution- Uncertainty about the advertising standard- Lack of measurement for utilization and

effectiveness of content- Lack of an introduction scheme for small

advertisers- Ambiguity in laws and regulations concerning

the digital signage industry- Lack of statistical data

2) Solutions/moving forward- Guidelines / index/ measurements of

effectiveness- Technology development (research on devices

and content performance)- Study and experimentation on new styles of

digital contents- Standardization of digital signage for small

retailers- Rules related to copyrights, code of ethics, and

privacyprotection

3.2.4 Future of Digital SignageAlong with the appearance of digital signage, spots where people clustered together has become the location of this new media. Media with displays or other similar functions has suggested a new concept for designing an urban interface. It enables people to observe and experience city life from different perspectives. Nowadays, DSC is collaborating with many educational institutions with research on technologies in various fields related to digital signage.

1) SoftwareChoose contents according to the interests and emotions of the audience. Present contents with full presence by adapting 5-senses technologies.

2) HardwareChoose contents according to the targeted audience and locations. Add artistic and entertaining elements into the design of digital signage.

3.3 Status and use case

3.3.1 Japan business function

3.3.2 Korea TelecomMarket Environments:- Provides various types of multimedia contents interactively.- Delivers customized ads to target customers and Grows market share.

3.3.2.1 Digital Signage Business in Korea• Major business areas since 2005 - Network, Platform, Nationwide sales capability• The largest number of digital signage installation

references in Korea - 25,000 installations nationwide• Owns patented solutions : i-frame - Provides end-to-end integrated solution• Based on nationwide communications network

infrastructure• Digital Signage business know-how (7 years of

experiences)• KT owns multiple service brands for Digital

Signage• Building elevator, University Campus, Kimpos

Int’l Airport, - Convenience store, Metro, AED-Signage, and

Media Pole

3.4 Panel DiscussionAs discussed in panel discussion, standardization is an important role in the future of digital signage. Digital signage will render different world at certain time and place with internet where the strength is the location.

Example of the application at Japan

Application at Japan

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The workshop is focusing on the standardization of Digital Signage that are related to the Media. The Digital Signage is not just promoting the products but on the other hand, may include the government information, as in Japan, it has 15 minutes display for sharing government information to public.

With the new High Speed Broadband era, a lot of new technology been introduced by Telco such as FTTH technology to increase the bandwidth. Since Malaysia is quite behind compare to other developed country such as US, Japan, Korea etc. It is very hard for the MTSFB member to directly experience and learn that latest technology. The deployment of FTTH technology also still in slow face here, not much supplier can be found in Malaysia. Therefore, this workshop might be the most perfect place to update knowledge as it involves IPTV solution as well.

Media Properties

ARTICLES SEGMENTS10by Cik Nur Rashidah Binti Abas AzmiSecretary, FT WG

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Malaysia’s ICT sector is ready and eager to go green, and the Green ICT Working Group is leading the way by setting the standards for the change to come.

Information and communications technology (ICT) has a shinier and more attractive public image than most industries. For most people, the first thing that comes to mind when they hear “ICT” is a sleek laptop computer. It’s a far more palatable image than the rumbling tractors of agribusiness or the belching smokestacks of the steel industry. But the sad truth is that the ICT industry is as resource-hungry as they come.

Gartner Group has found that the ICT industry, not including broadcasting, contributes an estimated 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That figure is comparable to the emissions of the airline and shipping industries, and it’s no joke. Not only does the industry consume vast amounts of energy, it also has to grapple with the issue of electronic components that can leak toxins when disposed of, otherwise known as e-waste. In fact, every stage of the ICT lifecycle has a major environmental impact, from manufacturing to deployment, use and final disposal.

THE NEED FOR GREEN

Fortunately, the ICT industry is a knowledgeable one and has already become well aware of the need to conserve energy and reduce its impact on

the environment. In another study conducted by the Forrester Group in 2009, 152 companies were asked to rate the importance of environmental criteria for companies when choosing IT vendors and products. 28% of respondents considered environmental criteria to be “very important” with another 68% considering it “relatively important.” In short, the vast majority of companies surveyed have identified Green ICT as a priority.

Green ICT isn’t just good for the planet, it’s also good for business, as a 2009 study by T-Systems has found. The study indicated that an effective Green ICT strategy has both external and internal impacts on a company. Green ICT cuts costs, enhances image and also helps a

SHIFT TO GREEN

HOW IMPORTANT IS ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA FOR COMPANIES WHEN CHOOSING IT VENDORS AND PRODUCTS?

Forrester: Green IT Adoption by Geography, 2009

company to comply with current and future legal requirements. In addition, the policy increases employee satisfaction as workers are more likely to be drawn to - and stay with – an environmentally conscious organisation.

The four most important areas for attention in implementing Green ICT are personal computers, data centres, telecommunication devices and telecommunication infrastructure. To reduce emissions in the ICT sector, more energy-efficient and cost-efficient upgrades need to be made in all four areas.

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• Efficiency gains and longer product life• Shift from desktops to laptops• Shift from CRT to LCD screens• Potential breakthrough ‑ solid state hard drives,

new LCD screens, new battery technology, quantum and optical computing

• Higher rates of virtualisation; more effiient virtualisation architectures

• Lower energy cooling• “Utility”/”cloud” computing; software‑asa‑

service (SaaS)

• New network management tools• Network optimisation packages• Solar‑powered base stations• Potential breakthroughs ‑ night battery

operation, natural ventilation, “network sharing”

• “Smart” chargers• 1W or lower standby devices• Broadband routers’ and IPTV boxes’ footprint

increases over timeframe due to higher penetration rate from small base today

REDUCINGICT SECTOREMISSIONS

by Nur Faezal bin Elias,Chairman, Green ICT Working Group.(Abstract from SIRIM S&Q Vol.20, 01/2011)

MALAYSIAN ROADMAP

In June 2010, the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Berhad (MTSFB), a body under the purview of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission(MCMC) set up a working group to lead the way in Green ICT initiatives. The Green ICT Working Group (GICT WG) was founded with three objectives:

1) To recommend to the MCMC a minimum set of guidelines on the Green ICT concept to be adopted by Government, private sector and consumers.

2) To engage in active discussion with related Government agencies on ways to achieve the Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan Air (KeTTHA) National Green Technology Policy.

3) To collaborate and share information with other Green ICT initiatives in Malaysia and the rest of the world. This ensures a uniform direction in achieving the Government’s objective.

The GICT WG (www.greenict.org.my) currently numbers more than 50 members, and has been working tirelessly to promote the Green ICT

Table 1: Benefits of Green ICTconcept to all parties involved in the ICT sector, including private companies and the public. The GICT WG has set up three working threads to further pursue its goals:

1) Promotions and Awareness2) Green Solutions for the ICT Industry3) Green ICT Metrics and Measurements

The GICT WG has devised some game-changing projects in store for the future. One of these is a Proof of Concept Project that will look into alternative power sources for the Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) that form the backbone of wireless networks in Malaysia. Mobile phones, Wi-Fi and WiMAX devices all rely on these stations to keep them connected to their respective networks, which is why they are constantly switched on – and constantly guzzling power. With the assistance and collaboration of key industry players, GICT WG plans to test and gather information on alternative energy technologies such as solar, wind turbine and fuel cells. If this Proof of Concept Project succeeds, the entire nation could enjoy cleaner and “greener” wireless networking.

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• Lower CO2 emissions• Reduced resource consumption• Compliance with legal requirements (in the future)

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centres• Less hardware needed

Employees • Increased employee satisfaction• Greater loyalty• Easier recruitment

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• Improved ratings• Higher share prices• Greater company value

Customers • Greater customer loyalty• Appeal to new customer groups• Greater customer satisfaction

Public • Improved brand/company image• Rounded-out CSR strategy• Greater brand value

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COLLABORATIVE CONVERGENCE

In the global game of collaboration, the standardisation of the world’s telecommunication and information infrastructure has largely been driven by groups of multinational corporations under the banner of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency under the United Nations (UN) which has overseen the development of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry for nearly 145 years. Some of these groups we know, like the GSM Association (which gave the world, including Malaysia, GSM mobile communications) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (which gave us 3G technology), but there are also newer groups such as the WiMax Forum and Long Term Evolution (LTE), which are collaborating to ensure the success of upcoming 4G technologies.

However, actual collaboration begins at national

and regional level. These include groups or associations like the Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) of Europe, the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) and the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) of North America and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of South Korea. All these organisations are major technological contributors to the ICT industry today via the ITU.

VISIONARY COMMUNICATIONS

Malaysia’s move within the ICT industry came comparatively late, but was nonetheless a resounding success. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

(MCMC) was the first regulator in the world to enact a law that foresaw technological convergence when the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA) came into effect on 1 April 1999. The CMA embraces a collaboration spirit based on self-regulation in which the basic principles of transparency, competition, deregulation and flexibility are believed to be the greatest motivators for the development of the industry and its ecosystem as a whole.

The government realises the importance of collaboration among industry players to build Malaysia’s own technological groups like the ones mentioned earlier. That’s why the Industry Standards Committee on Information Technology, Communications and Multimedia (ISC G) was established to oversee national and international standardisation activities in the field

How the Industry Standards Committee on Information Technology, Communications and Multimedia (ISC G) is helping Malaysia stay ahead of information and communications technology.

of IT, communications and multimedia.

The ISC G comprises of representatives from both private organisations and national associations. Twelve Technical Committees (TC) have been formed so far and have been tasked with developing standards for a wide range of areas and technologies under the ICT sector (see next page). These committees also participate in various international committees based on their scope in order to mirror international developments. This participation oversees the need for Malaysian Standards to be in line with the ISO/IEC standards and also ensures that the interests of the Malaysian ICT sector are well represented and safeguarded within the global arena.

THE MALAYSIAN TECHNICAL STANDARDS FORUM BHD

One of the technical committees within the ISC G (TC/G/12 ± IT interconnection, Communications and System Information) also oversees the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB). The MTSFB was officially designated by the MCMC to enshrine the national policy and objective of self-regulation in accordance with the Communications and Multimedia Act, particularly with respect to the harmonisation of technology and standards for the nation. It was appointed as a Standards Writing Organisation (SWO) within the scope of telecommunications, multimedia and broadcasting technologies in 2005.

As the appointed technical industry forum, MTSFB is responsible for establishing and maintaining the technical codes and standards through collaboration among its registered members. At present, MTSFB has 51 registered

WHO IS IN THE ISC G?• Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia• Department of Standards Malaysia• Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers• Malaysian Administrative, Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU)• Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM)• Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry• Malaysian National Computer Confederation• Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd• MIMOS Berhad• Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture• Ministry of International Trade and Industry

• Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation• Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd• Multimedia University• National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN)• Persatuan Industri Komputer dan Multimedia Malaysia (PIKOM)• Science and Technology Research Institute for Defence• SIRIM Berhad (Secretariat)• Telekom Malaysia Berhad• The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia• Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism

corporate members collaborating with hundreds of individual members within 19 working groups. To date, MTSFB has already successfully developed 17 assorted codes and standards with more to come in the future. Five of the MTSFB’s documents have been registered by the MCMC as Technical Codes (TSIR Part 1 for Fixed Network Infrastructure, Part 2 for Broadcast Network Infrastructure, Part 3 for External Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure, TS for Fibre Cabling for Fibre- to-the-Premise & TS for DTT Set Top Box) with two others being accepted as Mandatory Standards (Determination No.1:2004 on 3G & Determination No.2:2006 on DTTB). Three other documents have been gazetted as Malaysian Standards by SIRIM through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MS 1903:2006 on NGN, MS 1902:2006 on BPL & MS 2235:2009 on IPv6).

THE STANDARDISATION GAP

The ITU, MTSFB and others generally agree that the standardization gap between developed and developing countries is due to shortcomings within developing nations: the lack of human resources; the lack of capital resources and assistance; and, the lack of technology experts. The ITU Strategic Plan for 2008-2011 seeks to address these gaps, and, in line with this plan, the MTSFB recently organised a threeday seminar titled “Bridging the Standardization Gap and Interactive Training Session” at the MCMC Auditorium in Cyberjaya. The event was

a collaborative effort between MTSFB, MCMC, the ITU-T standardization sector and the Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA). It drew technology and standardization experts from Korea, Switzerland and the United States as well as over 150 participants from countries in ASEAN.

One of the conclusions of the three-day seminar was that developing countries tend to be riskaverse when it comes to investments into ICT. They prefer not to spend the country’s resources on acquiring or developing advanced technologies, which hampers efforts to standardise the global ICT industry and can be a barrier towards the country’s development as a whole. It is not considered a priority and is sometimes perceived as a burden to fulfil a national service obligation.

The South Korean approach to the standardisation gap was cited as a good example of how a developing nation can emulate others and rise to become a respected leader in the ICT industry. 30 years ago, the South Korean government made a considerable investment into acquiring foreign advanced technologies which they then used to set up their own enterprises to produce their own products. Today, the country is one of the world’s leading innovators and boasts internationally-accepted brands, products and technologies.

Moving forward, the challenge for the MTSFB and other players within the ISC G are to address the three identified reasons for the standardisation

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Table 1: Overview the ISC G’s Technical Committees, Working Groups and participation at International Committees.

National Mirror Committee Working Group and/or technical industry forum Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of ISO and IEC on Information Technology

TC on MultilingualInformation Technology (TC/G/1)

- O-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 – Coded Character Sets

Geographic Information/Geomatics (TC/G/2)

- P-Member of ISO/TC211 – Geographic information/ Geomatics

Intelligent TransportationSystems (TC/G/3)

- P-Member of ISO/TC204 – Intelligent transport systems

E-Commerce (TC/G/4) - P-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 – Document description and processing languages

Information Security (TC/G/5) • WG/G/5-1 – Information Security Management Systems• WG/G/5-2 – Cryptography and Security Mechanisms• WG/G/5-3 – Security Evaluation Criteria• WG/G/5-4 – Security Controls and Services• WG/G/5-5 – Identity Management and Privacy Technologies• WG/G/5-6 – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) Security Standards

P-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 – IT Security techniques

Computer Graphicsand Multimedia (TC/G/6)

- O-Member of:• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 24 – Computer graphic and image processing• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 – Coding of audio, picture, multimedia, and hypermedia information• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 28 – Office equipment

Identification Cards and Related Devices (TC/G/9)

- P-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17 - Cards and personal identification

Biometrics (TC/G/10) • WG/G/10-1 – Biometric Technical Sub-Group• WG/G/10-2 – Biometric Applications, Testing and Societal

Aspects

P-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC37 – Biometrics

Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering (TC/G/11)

- O-Member of:• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 – Software and system engineering• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 – Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces

IT Interconnection,Communications andSystem Information (TC/G/12)

Standards Writing Organisation: Malaysian TechnicalStandards Forum Bhd

O-Member of:• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC25 – Interconnection of information technology equipment• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 – Telecommunication and information exchange between systems

Health InformaticsStandards (TC/G/13)

- P-Member of ISO TC 215 – Health informatics

Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques (TC/G/14)

- P-Member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 31 – Automatic identification and data capture techniques

P-Member: Participating Member; O-Member: Observing Member

gap. We must acquire ICT technologies for the country and promote the importance of standardization to the national economy. Malaysia’s participation in global standardisation and harmonisation is vital to the success of the country’s ICT industry. It addresses many of the challenges facing the industry today, such as standardisation gaps within ICT technologies and

The graph above shows the number of patents filed by South Korea from the years 1995 until 2007. It also illustrates the way the country’s investments into R&D have paid off economically for the state and its people. In 1995, the nation’s per capita income touched the USD10,000 mark. By 2007 the gross national income per capita reached USD20,045. Today, South Korea is among the world’s top five most active patent filers worldwide.

SOUTH KOREA’S RISE TO INNOVATION

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interoperability with competing technologies. Besides aligning Malaysia’s technological expertise and objectives to those of international bodies, Malaysia’s experience may soon allow us to submit home-grown technology proposals to the ITU as candidates for future world communications technologies. A CROWDED

INTERNETThe Internet has evolved a lot since the 1960s. No one would have imagined that a network once used by just a few research institutions would one day play such a crucial part of every day life.

However, the surge of the Internet’s popularity has led to a problem: we’re running out of IP addresses for everyone. The current Internet addressing structure (IPv4) is expected to be completely exhausted by 2012. The question is, what happens after that?

IPV6 TO THE RESCUE

Every web presence on the Internet has to have an IP address, typically something like 62.128.193.35. But complicated sequences of numbers like that are not easily remembered, and so website IP addresses are generally assigned a proper “name” like http://www.sirim.com.my. When you type “sirim.com.my” into your web browser, the Internet will match that name with the IP address it is registered under and

then direct you to the home page. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) delegates IPv6 block addresses to Regional Internet Registries (RIR) around the world, but if we run out of IP addresses, there will be no more room for any more websites on the Internet.

There is also an increasing number of devices that connect to the Internet, all of which need an IP address to do so. These devices include web servers, routers, mobile devices and other communication devices. Digital TVs that connect to the web also require IP addresses.

Fortunately, Internet scientists have known about this threat for years, which is why they have been hard at work creating a new Internet addressing structure. Called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the new structure with solve the address shortage on the Internet with room to grow. It will provide a total of 2128 (about 3.4 x 1038) addresses compared to just 232 (4 billion) addresses by IPv4, allowing everyone on planet

earth to have as many as 5 x 1028 (about 1095) addresses each.

MALAYSIA’S JOURNEY TO IPV6

IPv6 was first defined in 1996 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with the release of RFC1883 specification. This was replaced by RFC2460 in 1998, which is the one used currently. Since then, many other standards have emerged on routing, mobility, neighbour discovery, multicasting, and IPv6 on low power devices.

By the late 1990s, there were quite a few organisations experimenting with IPv6 in Malaysia. Recognising the need to prepare the country for a complete IPv6 rollout, however, the Government formed the National IPv6 Council in 2004 under the then Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications (MEWC). This was followed by the creation of the National IPv6 Centre and the inclusion of IPv6 as one of the key areas of infrastructure development under the Malaysian

Believe it or not, the Internet is running out of space. luckily for us, however, there is a solution: IPv6.

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Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC)’s MyICMS886 blueprint.

To further accelerate the adoption of IPv6 in Malaysia, the IPv6 Working Group was formed in 2005 under the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB). This working group is comprised of ISPs, research institutions, web hosting companies and several other organisations interested in the success of IPv6. The goals of this working group are:

• To recommend technical standards for adoption in Malaysia

• To promote the adoption of IPv6• To recommend the migration and deployment

plan• To identify suitable contents and applications

which will accelerate the deployment of IPv6 networks

• To create awareness among professionals and the public by arranging seminars, workshops, exhibitions and release information on IPv6

The working group has been actively involved in helping the government to achieve the target of becoming an IPv6 nation by 2012. It has also formulated guidelines on IPv6 Implementation and Compliance Tests for ISPs and the public. The guidelines are available on MTSFB’s website at http://www.mtsfb.org.my.

The working group has also developed connectivity tests plans for ISPs, which are to be executed in three separate audits. In the first audit (Phase One, 2007), isolated networks within ISPs were successfully tested and audited with basic IPv6 support. In the second audit (Phase Two, 2009), ISPs had to pass the IPv6 Forum ISP logo programme and demonstrate at least one peer for global connectivity. All ten ISPs who participated in this audit completed it successfully.

The third and final audit (Phase Three) will test the ISPs reach to customers and is currently underway

(Q3 of 2010). In this phase, ISPs will be required to provide basic IPv6 services to customers.

The MCMC has been monitoring the execution of these audits closely and conducts regular checks on ISPs to ensure that they maintain their IPv6-ready status. The Government has also set a target of 10% of .my domain names to be registered with IPv6 addresses by the end of 2010.

ARE WE THERE YET?

Even though the first RFC on IPv6 was published over ten years ago, short term IPv4 fixes such as network address translations (NAT) and proxies delayed the widespread adoption of IPv6. These temporary solutions only delay the use of IPv6 and complicate communication within the Internet.

HOME APPLIANCE/NETWORK

We should not depend on these solutions, and since the dawn of IPv6 is imminent, proper plans must be made to make the migration smooth.

We have taken the necessary steps of formulating various roadmaps towards IPv6, and these will help us to get ready for a new era of the Internet. With the Government’s support and the preparation of the country’s ISPs, we will make Malaysia an IPv6-ready nation by the year 2012.

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SENSOR NETWORK/ TRACEABILITY

IPv6

Why IPv6? Besides the large address space, IPv6 also provides better end-to-end communications, support for global mobility and multicasting, address auto configurations at end devices, the mandatory use of IPSec and simplified packet forwarding. Realising the benefits of IPv6, some organisations already enable their networks and applications to support IPv6. Almost all the operating systems, open source and licensed, support IPv6, while Google and Facebook have already adopted IPv6 in their networks.

by Mr Gopinath Rao SinniahChairman, MTSFB IPv6 Working Group.(Abstract from SIRIM S&Q Vol.19, 03/2010)

DIGITAL DAWNRecently, ASEAN nations agreed to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s recommendation to migrate their terrestrial broadcasting networks from Analogue to Digital from 2015 onwards. Malaysia is working aggressively to meet this challenge and turn off analogue completely by 2015. Broadcasters, regulatory bodies and the industry in general have come together at the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) industry forum to develop a receiver specification which will not merely move Malaysia from Analogue to Digital but at the same time open a whole array of new opportunities.

The obvious benefit of moving to digital is that Malaysia will save its precious RF (radio frequency) spectrum. However there are many other benefits to be had as well. Going digital will make it possible for Malaysians to receive High Definition (HD) broadcasts directly to their TV set without the need for setup boxes or subscriptions. Once the digital broadcast environment is clarified, all televisions compliant to the Malaysian standard will feature a digital tuner and a MPEG4 video decoder, eliminating the need for external devices. Hopefully the next World Cup in Brazil will be viewed by Malaysians in HD on free-to-air terrestrial broadcast.

On the sound front, instead of just stereo audio, the new specification provides for broadcasts in multichannel audio coded in AC3 and HEAAC, providing for highly-efficient delivery of high quality 5.1 audio to the home.

TIME-SHIFTING

The big advantage of digital broadcast is the fact that the content is already in a form which can be can be stored directly to a digital storage medium like a hard drive for later playback. Time-shifting is seen as a big game changing feature made affordable by moving to digital broadcast. In Japan today, most televisions are already sold with the capability to add an external USB hard drive which turns the TV into a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). This, in combination with the Electronic Program Guide (EPG), makes it a snap to record a program.

In terrestrial broadcast being able to time-shift is going to be a key field leveller when it comes to competing with satellite or cable pay TV. Due to the limited spectrum, the number of services available to terrestrial broadcasts is limited compared to direct to home broadcast. However, with time shifting, the end user is not restricted

to just what is available currently but also what has already been broadcasted in the past. Even with 15 or 20 services, having a back catalogue of the content that one is really interested in will provide viewers with a sufficiently wide range of entertainment.

OPPORTUNITIES

One of the big challenges will be to roll out the infrastructure for digital broadcasting. The original plan called for a common integrated infrastructure provider (CIIP). The CIIP would receive centrally the feed from the various broadcasters, multiplex and then retransmit this throughout the country. This will enable broadcasters to shift the large capital expenditure required to setup the digital transmission network to the CIIP and focus their resources on their main business of content creation and delivery. Interestingly, this also opens up the possibility for newer niche players to enter the market to fill a void not yet covered by existing broadcasters with little capital expenditure. Instead of having to build a network of transmission towers, thesenew operators can merely “rent” a certain amount of bandwidth on the national transmission grid. Anyone for a channel dedicated to Korean or

Many parts of the world already enjoy free-to-air terrestrial digital broadcasts by local TV networks. When will it be Malaysia’s turn?

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Japanese programming? Let’s just hope that we do not end up with a bunch of shopping channels.

THE HYBRID RECEIVER

One of the big successes of the MTSFB’s Multimedia Terminal Working Group set up to deliberate the receiver specification for Malaysia’s digital broadcast was its ability to bring together a diverse range of experiences into the forum. Through participation from industry members, the forum was able to develop a cutting edge specification that is forward looking in nature as well as providing a platform for creative minds to push the limits of their abilities.

In Europe, America and East Asia, content consumption devices like televisions have now been integrated with a large range of features traditionally found on PCs. The movement from the study to the living room is seen as a natural progression, as the PC is now being used more and more for personal entertainment which is more suited to a sofa position rather than an office chair. Ideally, the end user will want to enjoy such content on a large screen controlled by a remote on a nice comfy couch.

The advantage that the TV has over the PC does not end there. Since the TV is connected to the broadcast via its internal tuner, it is able to link the content on the tuner to the broader internet space. The MTSFB working group hasthus recommended the inclusion of the latest interactive engine which includes an IP connection (return channel) over which users can download extended applications and content as well as stream audio and video ala IPTV. We may soon be watching YouTube reruns in our living rooms. Hence, the Malaysian receiver will not just be a traditional digital receiver but a hybrid receiver.

The broadcasters could, for example, provide a little pop-up while showing a trailer of upcoming

movies which allows the user to start streaming immediately a two-minute extended trailer via the internet connection. The possibilities are endless, including some more profitable options like providing users with a one-key link to a manufacturer’s site during the broadcast of their advertisement.

CATCH UP TV

The hybrid receiver provides the ideal platform to provide catch up TV services. Even in the relatively slow broadband environment that we have in Malaysia, the use of content delivery networks (CDN) will make it possible for a much larger portion of the general Malaysian population to be able to stream video via over-thetop delivery methods directly to their TV.

In Europe and America, catch up TV is so widely used that some estimates are indicating that by 2014 the UK’s internet traffic will consist of 90% video content.

CHALLENGES

MTSFB’s timely receiver specification is just one step on a long journey to convert Malaysia into a digital country, not least of which is the high capital investment required to roll out the digital transmitters. The good news is that there are foreign companies interested in making this investment, as I am sure they will be local ones as well.

If the experience of other countries is anything to go by, the biggest challenge will be to get Malaysians to switch to digital receivers. Due to the high cost of simultaneously broadcasting in both analogue and digital, Malaysia has set an aggressive target of just three years to go from Digital Switch On (DSO) to Analogue Switch Off (ASO). The key to getting users to move across is content, but new features and conveniences like

recording and will support the switch, too.

It is estimated that in 2011 66% of Households in Malaysia will still not own an LCD TV. The prices of the LCD TV in Malaysia have reached a point that even a Bravia flat TV is now affordable to the majority of the population. Once the MTSFB receiver specifications are fixed, most TVs will come with an integrated Digital Tuner, providing a ready base of receivers in the market.

by Encik Muzaffar FakhruddinMember,MTSFB Multimedia TerminalWorking Group(Abstract from SIRIM S&Q Vol.19, 03/2010)

Goodbye, analogue. Adrian Black, an amateur photographer on Flikr, took this sentimental photo of his twenty-year old 5-inch portable TV while it picked up its last analogue signal on 12 June 2009. The next day, the country switched to digital broadcasting and made all such televisions obsolete. Photo credit: Adrian Black, on Flikr.

SMART NETWORKTOWARDS BETTER QUALITY

OF EXPERIENCE (QOE)Dr. Timothy Senathirajah, Technology Strategy Director, Ericsson Malaysia, MTSFB GICT member and Co-Chair CCI-EPP9 Smart Network TWC, presents the case for implementing smart networks to meet growing needs of both wireless and fixed customers.

With amazing growth in the uptake of mobile broadband, operators now face the challenge of handling data traffic from multiple devices and applications. To stand out from the crowd, operators will need to offer a widespread, high-quality user experience and a range of differentiated services to attract different subscriber types.

Speed is no longer the only criteria for selection of a broadband package. Having a congested, 100 Mbps best effort link is useless. I would rather have a 4 Mbps link with Priority of Service. Give me the choice to use the Net for better video streaming capabilities over the weekend and better data transfer options during weekdays, depending on whether I am in the office, home or in the city. These types of differentiation not only allow subscribers to get the benefit of performance at the price that they can afford, it also allows the operators to dimension their network to support

dynamic bandwidth on demand.

With the growth in cloud computing, not only are connectivity and affordability important, latency is critical. Latency, which is the end-to-end measurement of time delay, plays a critical role for time sensitive applications. For a gaming environment, the ability to control the character to evade or attack within a short period of time would determine if the user wins or loses the

game. In terms of voice and video applications, longer latency can result in poor quality voice and image. This deters users from using the services. On the other hand, file transfers via FTP or email are more tolerant to longer or variable latency. In addition to this, for Emergency Services, the ability for a user to use the network services when required becomes important. The user has to be prioritised to gain access to the services with the appropriate bandwidth and latency, even when there is congestion.

As in many other markets, mobile broadband and fixed line broadband services are about giving people exactly what they need and are willing to pay for - no more, no less. From guaranteed “no-limit” premium subscriptions, to “no-frills” subscriptions without guarantees. For example, there could be a Platinum Class Package as opposed to a Student Package. It is similar to the airline industry practice that provides different

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on the capability and the other on the viability of these services. This EPP9 will be the enabler for the other EPPs under CCI. For example with the digitalisation and storage of the Content, Priority of Service is important for its retrieval. In addition to this, EPP9 can provide the underlying communications guidelines for the other 11 National Key Economic Areas (NKEA).

THE DRIVERS FOR EXCELLENCE

Three major trends are driving the need for service excellence and making the delivery of high-quality user experience more important than ever before. The first of these trends is the dramatic growth in mobile broadband subscriptions, as the Internet goes mobile. By 2015, it is estimated that there will be close to 3.5 billion mobile broadband subscriptions, the majority of which will be smartphone-based.

The second is the trend towards overthe- top (OTT) services and applications, and their accessibility on mobile devices. The massive growth in smartphone use, app stores and many other constantly connected devices has created a whole new ecosystem, in which thousands of new applications are launched at a much faster pace than we have seen so far. OTT applications do not exclude operators from the loop. At the very least, operators need to ensure that applications

are delivered correctly over their networks. In many cases, they will also be involved in the charging process.

The third trend is the shift to cloudbased services and applications. By 2020, projections show that there will be over 50 billion connected devices, mostly interacting in a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) environment. These devices will store and access content and applications in data centres in the cloud, instead of locally. This further reiterates the need for having a smart network that will provide the appropriate Priority of Service (PoS) for the appropriate M2M devices.

We can see this becoming a reality as not only are the application providers moving to the cloud, Fixed and Wireless Service Providers are making the same shift. It brings about new terminology such as Application-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a- Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. The critical part of making the X-as-a-Service growth is the ubiquitous connectivity that is affordable, accessible and available.

As stated in the Differentiated Mobile Broadband White Paper*, these three trends are driving several simultaneous changes that will in turn reshape the way broadband services are priced, delivered and consumed:

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• Devices are shifting from being shared to personal – from mainly home or office PCs to personal laptops, smartphones and tablets.

• The number of devices – such as laptops, smartphones and tablets– per user and per family is increasing.

• The number of devices connected through mobile networks is growing.

• People use different devices to access the same services at different times, creating demand for affordable connectivity for several personal devices.

• Network resources are moving away from being dedicated, such as cable, to being shared, such as mobile cellular and public WiFi.

• Applications that were once defined and tested in a controlled environment are now published at a rate of hundreds per day by many thousands of third-party developers.

• Power consumption, which was not an issue for fixed equipment plugged into a wall socket, is now a key factor for devices that are carried around for many hours at a time.

• Business processes and models are changing as greater numbers of users, devices and market segments increasingly rely on mobile connectivity.

In this changing environment, mobile operators have to compete and stand out through exceptional networks that deliver the best QoE

to users. Delivering mobile broadband growth is about providing special services to fit all users and delivermaximum value from connectivity.

THE MOBILE BROADBANDCHALLENGE

Operators are familiar with the diagram below. A small percentage of users (~5%) use most of the bandwidth (~80%) which has resulted in majority of the subscribers unhappy with their available bandwidth and latency issues. One way to handle this challenge is to throttle the heavy users. However, this will result in disgruntled users as well, especially if they really need the bandwidth for their daily work. The better solution is to provide a dynamic bandwidth on demand, depending on the congestion and priority of the users.

On top of the flat-rate business model, it is

important to include premium Internet (paid applications) and a range of applications charged on the basis of a range of factors, including time of day, peak data rate, location and other parameters. The ability for a user to pay a little extra in order to have a “Turbo” transmission willdefinitely benefit those who need to submit their term papers to their tutors, business meeting presentations to their managers or advertisements graphics to their customers for approval.

MANAGING SUBSCRIBEREXPERIENCE AND EXPECTATIONS

Users want to pay for what they get, and get what they pay for. Operators need to design low-price connectivity services to attract low-end users, while providing sufficient incentives for more advanced users to buy higher-priced services. The next step is to monetise the different communication needs of various user segments. Operators need to create commercial packages that leverage the different capabilities in the network. This will both encourage mass-market uptake and make it possible to drive revenue growth when subscribers’ usage patterns change.

Operators need ways to encourage uptake and usage of mobile broadband among all types of users, and to offer informed choices about how services are used and paid for – creating an opportunity to increase revenue as subscriber usage increases. For example, while premium subscribers will want to know that they are getting

boarding priorities, seat/bed sizes and baggage allowances based on the category of purchased flight tickets.

SMART NETWORK

Smart Network, if implemented properly, will allow these capabilities in both fixed and wireless networks. This has to be end-to-end and not just a device in the core network. The fixed line edge devices and radio access nodes must be capable of differentiating the traffic, prioritise them and schedule them appropriately.

As shown in the diagram below, in the 3GPP-based networks, the THP (Traffic Handling Priority) allows scheduling and transmission based on the dynamic priority of service. The Platinum User (THP1) receives the top priority service and when he/she has completed the transfer, the Gold User (THP2) receives their service before finally the Student (THP3) gets to use the service.

Due to the complexity of this end-to-end dynamic Priority-of-Service (PoS), we are fortunate that the Malaysian Government, under the guidance of PEMANDU and monitoring by SKMM and MTSFB, has initiated the Communications and Content Infrastructure’s (CCI) Entry Point Project (EPP) 9 Smart Network Working Committee, which consists of both the Technical and Commercial teams to develop the guidelines, one

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the best possible data rate at all times, basic subscribers may be happy to accept that they will have limited access to mobile broadband services at certain times of day, at certain locations, or even to specific sites or social communities.

GAINING END-TO-END CONTROL OVER SERVICES

Gaining end-to-end control over the mobile broadband service-delivery pipe will be important in driving mobile broadband. From a technical point of view, the challenge is to gain the required level of intelligence and control over services at every stage – all the way from the servers handling customer care and billing, through the core and radio networks, to end-user devices – to create

and deliver differentiated services profitably.

Only with such control over the mobile broadband service pipe can operators truly make a distinction of their service packages and ensure this distinction is delivered for best use of network resources and best value for users.

For wireless operators, they have a range of mobile broadband tools at their disposal that enable them to shift their network into a flexible, intelligent resource that can deliver just the right level of features for targetted subscribers and segments. It also requires a range of tools and services in everything from the network policy controller, through the Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS and BSS), to network planning and

design, and integration and optimisation.

End-to-end QoS control requires the involvement and integration of capabilities in:

• Radio access and transport – including new capacity-enhancing techniques and congestion-aware scheduling of air interface resources.

• Packet core – including prioritisation of data packets, negotiation or modification of QoS parameters, and content optimisation and caching.

• BSS – including flexible charging options, targetted offerings, real-time credit control and greater customer control and interaction (such as real-time notifications and selfservice).

By being well integrated, straightforward to deploy and easy to use, a toolbox of hardware- and software-based differing capabilities strengthens the link between operators’ commercial and marketing strategies and objectives and the technical capabilities needed to deliver them. The toolbox supports revenue growth by creating packages that deliver different experiences to different subscribers according to what they are being charged, and helps operators identify more accurately where investment is needed in mobile broadband capacity, avoiding over-dimensioning and unnecessary expenditure.

The operators need to define:

• Features that they can highlight – for example, by setting maximum bandwidth per user or per application, with per-user admission priority to the service, throughput per user at congestion, guaranteed bit rate per application, minimum bit rate per user, content optimisation or content caching.

• When to differentiate – for example, based on fair-usage policy, time of day, location, terminal type, detected service or subscriber interaction.Operators will be able to mix and match these

parameters to define service packages and enforce them in the network to ensure that the real user experience meets expectations. Early examples of thiskind of service differentiation are already starting to appear.

End-to-end QoS control in mobile broadband requires deep interaction among the policy controller, the core nodes and the radio network. Only with direct, real-time delegation of the policies from the policy controller to the scheduler in the base station can operators monitor and enforce QoS dynamically according to congestion, location and device type.

Deep packet inspection (DPI) is required to identify the service type for OTT services, to ensure that such services are included in the policy controller’s domain. The DPI detects OTT services and notifies the policy controller of this event. In addition, the DPI provides the policy controller with relevant information about the user and application to enable it to take action.

For example, if the subscriber’s package includes 100 MB of YouTube for RM30 per month, the DPI detects the YouTube traffic and informs the policy controller, which in turn maps the YouTube traffic to priority and configures the charging system so that the YouTube traffic is not deducted from the subscriber’s monthly quota. This practice is known as “zero-rating” YouTube traffic.

Enforcing QoS in the base station provides the most efficient mechanism, as the base station schedules bottlenecked resources, deciding how to make the best use of limited and oversubscribedresources. The higher efficiency of this approach translates into a higher sustainable load, while maintaining the same QoE. Furthermore, it maximises overall capacity, which is one of the key operating targets of a radio scheduler.

USE CASES

One European operator offers tiered mobile broadband packages, with various quality of

service (QoS) measures that kick in under certain circumstances. These include a fair-usage policy that is enforced with different combinations of maximum bandwidth and the de-prioritising of subscribers who have exceeded their monthly data-volume allowance.

Another European operator has introduced prioritisation for its mobile TV application to ensure that subscribers paying for this service enjoy a good-quality experience, regardless of the network load.

Similarly, another European operator prioritises users of a certain smartphone to preserve the user experience of these high-ARPU subscribers.

One operator in Indonesia offers an online portal service to its mobile broadband subscribers to check the balance of their data allowance. Subscribers have the option to boost or upgrade their package for a day, a week or a month – when they have exceeded their allowance and throughput has been throttled.

PUTTING THE SUBSCRIBER INCONTROL

Another important aspect of end-to-end, all-around QoS is the real-time connection between the policy controller and the BSS systems, including charging and billing. This supports operators’ ability to cross-sell and up-sell mobile broadband services, while putting the subscriber in control. This creates a user experience that matches subscribers’ personal preferences as well as the level of charging.

For example, operators can provide real-time notifications (via SMS or email) offering options to subscribers who have reached their data allowance, entered a new territory, or requested a service outside their existing package. Such users can be redirected to an operator portal where they can use various self-service options for topping up or extending their service plans, such as day passes or

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The Communications andMultimedia Industry

The MTSFB Forum is bringing together local industry players to achieve its goal of making a mark in the international technologies arena. Amirul Ahmad shares the developments to date.

In developed countries, it is almost vital for specific industry players to come together to form a group or an association to able their respective enterprise to work together for many reasons including to achieve a greater agenda nationally and internationally. In today’s fast and convergence communications and multimedia technologies, it is a fundamental factor behind the success of the whole industry to collaborate and harmonise.

We have seen how mobile phone technologies evolved from the 1st generation (1G) beginning in 1979 with less harmonisation among players to the 2nd generation (2G) in 1991 where the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications which was originally derived from Groupe Spécial

Mobile) where players started to come together to collaborate as a group and the success was phenomenonal with over 80% of mobile

phone subscribers globally. Then in 2001, the 3rd generation (3G) came in and next the 4th generation (4G) that are already currently under

Table 1: Share of contributions submitted to ITU’s R/T/D by selected countries

short-term roaming packages.

Prepaid mobile broadband users who have run out of credit can be offered a limited set of Internet sites and services, so they are not cut off completely and still have access to operator-defined services. Subscribers on basic plans could also be offered add-on packages for a small additional fee to access. For example, online video sites, social networking sites and music services – with the data used excluded from their basic allowance (another example of “zero rating”). This allows operators to address the lower-end subscriber segment that is often neglected in basic price plans.

With the right charging and billing system in place, operators will be able to offer group or family plans, in which the monthly data allowance is shared between members – perhaps with individual limits on data usage or access to certain services. This enables individuals and families to connect more and more devices in an affordable way. Such differentiated packaging helps operators to create revenue growth as usage increases. 3GPP networks offer a well-defined route to enhanced capacity by delivering higher data rates from the existing radio spectrum. This enables operators to make the most of their existing spectrum allocation, and to benefit from the aggregation gains brought by “fatter pipes” in the radio interface.

To succeed in the broader market, which comprises a wider variety of demands, expectations and wallets, it is now time to introduce differentiated services with pricing models to suit today’s user.

SKMM AND MTSFB’S SMART NET-WORK INITIATIVE

In Malaysia, we are fortunate that the Smart Network has been identified as one of the Entry Point Projects (EPP#9) under the ETP’s Communications, Content and Infrastructure

(CCI). SKMM (Mr. Amarjit Singh) and MTSFB (Dato’ Ismail Osman) are the Co-Chairs of the Reference Committee (RC). Under the RC, there are two working committees covering technical and commercial aspects. Ericsson Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Dr Timothy Senathirajah) and Maxis Bhd (Ms. Rita Maria Warnoh) are the Co-Chairs for the Technical Working Committee. Celcom Axiata Bhd (Mr. Sargunan Seenivasan) and Time dot Com (En. Imran Zulkifli) are the Co-Chairs of the Commercial Working Committee.

The vision for the future is that the CCI NKEA aims at driving continued high growth in communications and enabling the paradigm shift from infrastructure to applications and content. We will raise the sector’s GNI contribution from RM36 billion in 2009 to RM58 billion by 2020. This incremental increase is driven by 10 Entry Point Projects (EPP) including the EPP#9 on Smart Network that will deliver RM16.6 billion in incremental GNI and four business opportunities that will deliver RM11.7 billion in incremental GNI. In achieving this, an additional 43,000 jobs will be created.

by Dr. Timothy Senathirajahcan be contacted at tomothy.senathirajah@ericsson.com(Abstract from .myconvergence Vol.5 No.2 | July 2011)

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technical trials. With such a rapid evolution period of within 10~12 years, the global industry players have now realised the importance of collaboration to harmonise their efforts for a greater achievement in this global ‘economics of scale’ game.

COLLABORATE

Yes, it is a ‘1 Global’ collaboration by multinational companies. Let’s take the example of mobile phone technologies again. We heard names like GSM Association for the 2G; 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) which is a greater collaboration for 3G and now WiMax Forum and Long Term Evolution (LTE) for the upcoming 4G.

In actuality collaboration begins at national and regional level. All these mobile phone technologies were successful submissions to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency under the United Nations (UN) which has coordinated and promoted harmonisation of information and communication technology and industry for nearly 145 years. Collaboration of groups or associations like the Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) of Europe, the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) and the Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) of Japan, China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in China, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) of North America and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTC) of South Korea are among the major technological contributors to ITU.

WHERE ARE WE?

In Malaysia, SKMM was the first regulator in the world to enact a law that recognises technology and service convergence when the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA) came into effect on 1 April 1999. The collaboration spirit which the CMA embraced

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KCC(RRA), KT, LGT, ETRI, KISDI, DACOM, KISA

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SG5 RRA KCC(RRA), SAMSUNG Elec., KEPCO, KRISS, ETRI, KETI, ETRI, DWE, LG Elec., LGT, SKT, KT, KITECH, Universities, etc

SG9 RRA KCC(RRA), KT, ETRI, CNM, Alticast, Tbroad, Klabs, Powercomm, Universities, etc

SG11 ETRI KCC(RRA), ETRI, KT, Xener Systems, Universities

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KCC(RRA), ETRI, KISA, Bank of Korea, FSA, Universities

ITU - R Sector

SG1 RRA KCC(RRA, CRMO), ETRI, Qualcomm, KASI, Universities

SG3 RRA KCC(RRA, CRMO), ETRI, Universities

SG4 RRA KCC(RRA, CRMO), Ministry of Defense, ADD, KT, SKT, ETRI, Universities, AR Technology,

SG5 RRA KCC(RRA), LGT, SKT, KT, MBC, SBS, KARI, Samsung Elec., Samsung Thales, Intel, ETRI, SK Broadband, KORPA, DAPA, ETRI, Universities

SG6 RRA KCC(RRA), MBC, KBS, SBS, LG Elec., Samsung Elec.,

SG7 KASI KCC(RRA), KMA, Universities

Table 2 : ITU membership of selected countries according to type and sectors – ITU’s R/T/D

ITU-T and ITU-R Study Group

ITU-R Radiocommunication Sector ITU – T Standardisation Sector1S tudy Group 1 (SG 1) - Spectrum management S tudy Group 2 (SG 2) – Operational Aspects

2S tudy Group 3 (SG 3) - Radiowave propagationS tudy Group 3 (SG 3) – Economic and Policy

3S tudy Group 4 (SG 4) - Satellite services Study Group 5 (SG 5) – Environment and Climate Change1. i Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), to safety and to health

telecommunication installations and devices, including cellular phones.

2. R esponsible for studies on the existing copper network outside plant and related indoor installations.

3. R esponsible for studies on methodologies for evaluating the ICT effects on climate change, publishing guidelines for using ICTs in

system.

4S tudy Group 5 (SG 5) - Terrestrial services 1. W orking Party 5A (WP 5A) - Land mobile service above 30

2. a mateur and amateur-satellite services 3. W orking Party 5B (WP 5B) - Maritime mobile service including Global

Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS); 4. aeronautical mobile service and radiodetermination service 5. W orking Party 5C (WP 5C) - Fixed wireless systems; HF and other

6. W orking Party 5D (WP 5D) - IMT Systems 7. Joint Task Group 5-6 - Studies on the use of the band 790-862 MHz by

mobile applications and by other services

Study Group 9 (SG 9) – Broadband Cable and TV

5S tudy Group 6 (SG 6) - Broadcasting service1. W orking Party 6A (WP 6A) - Terrestrial broadcasting delivery*

2. W orking Party 6B (WP 6B) - Broadcast service assembly and access** 3. W orking Party 6C (WP 6C) - Programme production and quality 4. assessment*** 5. Joint Task Group 5-6 - Studies on the use of the band 790-862 MHz by

mobile applications and by other services

6S tudy Group 7 (SG 7) - Science services Study Group 12 (SG 12) – Performance, QoS & QoEResponsible for Recommendations on performance, Quality of

Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for the full spectrum

circuit-based networks to multimedia applications over networks

that are mobile and packet based. Included in this scope are the

operational aspects of performance, QoS and QoE.A special focus is given to interoperability to ensure end-to-end

users’ satisfaction.Study Group 12 is Lead study group on quality of service and

quality of experience.

7 Study Group 13 ( SG 13) – Future NetworksResponsible for studies relating to the requirements, architecture,

evolution and convergence of future networks. Also includes NGN project management coordination across study groups and release planning, implementation scenarios and deployment models, network

and service capabilities, interoperability, impact of IPv6, NGN mobility

and network convergence, public data network aspects and network

aspects of IdM. Responsible for studies relating to network aspects of mobile telecommunication networks, including International Mobile

Telecommunications (IMT), wireless Internet, convergence of mobile

functions, Internetworking, interoperability and enhancements to

existing ITU T Recommendations on IMT.

8 Study Group 15 (SG 15) – Transport and Access

9 Study Group 16 (SG 16) – Multimedia

10 Study Group 17( SG 17) - Security

Table 3a – ITU-T and ITU-R Study Group

is through a self-regulation mechanism based on basic principles of transparency, promoting competition, technology neutrality and flexibility for the development of the industry and its ecosystem as a whole.

Through this visionary regulatory regime change, the Government acknowledges the importance of collaboration among local industry players to build our very own technological group which may one day be able to submit proposals to the ITU as a candidate for future mobile phone generations. It is a long way to go, but as a nation, we have to start somewhere. Take the example of South Korea. Their government established a formal corresponding system to ITU beginning in 1983 where their initial participation at that time was merely as observer to acquire advanced knowledge. Today in less than 30 years, South Korea is one of the leading countries in the world to contribute to ITU (Table 1).

With that in mind, an industry forum namely the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) was officially designated by Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) on 27 October 2004 to enshrine the national policy and objective of self regulation in accordance to Section 94 and 184 of the CMA particularly on the harmonisation of technical standards for the nation.

But can we grow this organic collaboration within our industry players for greater achievement for the country only with the legislative instruments? Perhaps we may start by emulating the Korean success by strategically participating in ITU as a beginner to catch on technological advancements. At present nine local companies are registered within three types of sectoral membership to ITU (Table 2). But the question remains: When and how many technological submissions by Malaysia can be registered to ITU? Great challenges are ahead for all of us.

Table 3: Study group members

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ITU-D Advisory CommitteChairman : Director of KISDI

ITU-T Advisory CommitteChairman : vice-President of TTA

ICT & CC

Table 4a – Korean National ITU Corresponding Structure Table 4b – Korean National Standardisation Structure

DO WE PARTICIPATE?

If we refer to Table 2, we are not much different from Korea, but let’s analyze further our participation inside each of the two main ITU sectors. There are ten main/active Study Groups (SG) in ITU-T sector while six main/active Study Groups in ITU-R sector as shown in Table 3. Each of the SG are further divided into respective Working Party (WP).

NATIONAL CORRESPONDINGSTRUCTURE TO ITU

It is our desire to have a similar national ITU structure that mirrors the Korean one (Table 4a).

The ITU, MTSFB and others generally agree that the standardisation gap between developed and developing countries are due to the following shortcomings within developing nations:

i. the lack of human resource;ii. the lack of capital resources and assistance;

Table 5 – MTSFB documents

No.S eriesN ame1M TSFB 001:2005 Guideline on Next Generation Network (NGN) Realisation

2M TSFB 002:2005 Technical Standard on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTB)

3M TSFB 003:2005 Guidelines for Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) Physical Network Layer 4M TSFB 004:2005 Technical Standard on RF Emission Control of Cellular Radio Sites

5M TSFB 005:2005 Digital Sound Broadcast (DSB) Technical Standard

6M TSFB 006:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (Broadcast Network Infrastructure)

7M TSFB 007:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (Occupational Safety and Health Work Practices Guidelines)

8M TSFB 008:2005 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (Fixed Network Infrastructure)

9M TSFB 009:2005

10 MTSFB 001:2006 Technical Standard for Wireless Broadband – WiMAX

11 MTSFB 002:2006 Guideline on IPv6 Implementation and Compliant Test

12 MTSFB 001:2008 Technical Standard For Free To Air Digital Terrestrial Receiver (Set Top Box)

13 MTSFB 002:2008 IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Guidelines

14 MTSFB 003:2008 Mobile Broadcast TV Guidelines

15 MTSFB 001:2009 Technical Standard and Infrastructure Requirements (Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure - External)

16 MTSFB 002:2009 Technical Standard of In Building Fibre Cabling for Fibre-To-The-Premise (FFTP)

17 MTSFB 001:2010 Technical Standards of International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)

18 MTSFB 002:2010

19 MTSFB 001:2011

20 MTSFB 002:2011 Technical Standards of International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)

21 MTSFB 003:2011Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

and,iii. the lack of technology experts.

The ITU Strategic Plan for 2008- 2011 seeks to address these gaps, and, in line with this plan, the MTSFB organised a three-day seminar titled “Bridging the Standardisation Gap and Interactive Training Session” at the SKMM Auditorium in Cyberjaya in July last year. The event was a collaborative effort between the MTSFB, the SKMM, the ITU-T standardisation sector and the Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA). It drew technology and standardisation experts from Korea, Switzerland and the United States as well as over 150 participants from countries in ASEAN.

One of the conclusions of the three-day seminar was that developing countries including companies tend to be risk-averse when it comes to investments in ICT. They have other priorities and prefer not to spend their resources on acquiring or developing advanced technologies, which hampers their role in participating on

standardisation of the global ICT industry. This could be a barrier towards the country’s development as a whole in becoming a high income nation. It is sometime seen as a burden due to its resources being channeled to fulfil more urgent commercially profitable investments or other urgent obligations.

The South Korean approach to the standardisation gap was cited as a good example of how a developing nation can rise to become a respected leader in the ICT industry. 30 years ago, the South Korean government made a considerable investment into acquiring foreign advanced technologies which they then used to set up their own enterprises to produce their own products. Today, the country is one of the world’s leading innovators and boasts internationally-accepted brands, products and technologies.

WE ARE HERE TO COLLABORATE

As the appointed technical industry forum, MTSFB is a company limited by guarantee, responsible

for the establishment and maintenance of the technical codes or technical standards through collaboration among our registered members.

At present MTSFB have 53 registered members divided into two categories as below:1. Ordinary Members – 18 registered corporate members2. Associate Members – 35 registered corporate members

As stipulated in our charter, MTSFB plays a key role in developing technical codes for the communications and multimedia industry through the formation of specific working groups either through industry owned initiatives or upon request by SKMM. Six years since it was founded, 18 working groups as listed below havebeen operational:

1. Broadcasting Network Infrastructure Working Group (BNI WG)

2. Digital Radio Broadcast Working Group (DRB WG)

3. Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Working Group (DTT WG)

4. Fixed Network Infrastructure Working Group (FNI WG)

5. Fixed Terminal Working Group (FT WG)

6. Green Information Communication Technology Working Group (GICT WG)

7. International Mobile Telecommunications Working Group (IMT WG)

8. Internet Protocol Television Working Group (IPTV WG)

9. Internet Protocol Version 6 Working Group (IPV6 WG)

10. Multimedia Terminal Working Group (MMT WG)

11. Next Generation Network Working Group (NGN WG)

12. Occupational Safety & Health Working Group (OSH WG)

13. Power Line Communications Working Group (PLC WG)

14. Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure (External) Working Group [RNI (EX) WG]

15. Radiocommunications Network Infrastructure (Internal) Working Group [RNI (IN) WG]

16. Broadcast Terminal Working Group (SBT WG)

17. Wireless Industry Emission Working Group (WIE WG)

18. Wireless Terminal Working Group (WT WG)

MTSFB has successfully developed 21 documents (Table 5). These documents have been registered or gazetted under 3 different categories namely as a Mandatory Standard or a Technical Code by SKMM or as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).

A Mandatory Standard registration is determined by SKMM and compliance is mandatory.

Technical Codes are registered as a Voluntary Code by SKMM and compliance is voluntary and these Technical Codes can be of the following types.

a. Technical Standard – which is interoperability or safety related for the provision of network facility or service by providers.

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by Amirul Ahmadcan be contacted at amirul@mtsfb.org.my(Abstract from .myconvergence Vol.5 No.1 | January 2011)

No. Working Group/Leaders Name Organisation

1- Ratnam NA – RP Chairman MBNS (Astro)

2- Amirul Ahmad – RP Vice Chairman MTSFB

3- Abdul Ghani Zainal Abidin SIRIM

In-recess Working Group4 DTT Chairman Dato’ Ismail bin Osman Asiaspace

V. Chairman Ahmad Afandi Abu HasimR TM

SecretaryO mar Giri Valliappan DigitalTV Labs

5F NI Chairman Mohd Yusairi Abu Hassan Telekom Malaysia

V. Chairman Hasfarudin HaronT IME dotCom

SecretaryM uhammad Zaim Halilul Rahuman Telekom Malaysia

6F TC hairman Abdul Hamid MustafaT elekom Malaysia

V. Chairman Ahmad Faizan PardiS IRIM

SecretaryN ur Rashidah Abas AzmiT elekom Malaysia

7G ICTC hairman Nur Faezal EliasN FE Consulting

V. Chairman Dr Timothy SenathirajahE ricsson

SecretaryA di Effendi Abu Bakar NFE Consulting

8I MT Chairman Kevin Koo Jenn Mang DiGi

V. Chairman Hamzah BurokU Mobile

SecretaryK hairul Akmal ZahriP acket One

9I PV6 Chairman Gopinath Rao Sinniah Mimos

V. Chairman Ronhazli Adam Celcom

SecretaryA zura Mat Salim Telekom Malaysia

10 IPTV Chairman Mustafa Kamal Mamat MBNS (Astro)

V. Chairman Nik Maziah Nik Mohamad Telekom Malaysia

SecretaryM uzaffar FakharuddinS ony

11 MMT Chairman Hj Mohd Jaafar Mohamad Abu Bakar Telekom Malaysia

V. Chairman Dr Rohmad Fakeh RTM

SecretaryR azaini Mohd RazaliS IRIM

12 OSH Chairman Bruce de Netto Maxis

V. Chairman Maj (R) Jimi Ng UEM

SecretaryS uzamri SallehM axis

13 RNI

(Ex)Chairman Nor Izhar Mohd Zain Asiaspace

V. Chairman Kevin Koo Jenn Mang DiGi

SecretaryK hairul Akmal ZahriP acket One

14 RNI (In)

Chairman Hamzah BurokU Mobile

V. Chairman Packet One

SecretaryD elina ShamsuddinU Mobile

15 SBT Chairman Shahrul Imran SultanM BNS (Astro)

V. Chairman Zul DeresidM BNS (Astro)

SecretaryR azaini Mohd RazaliS IRIM

16 WT Chairman Dr Mazlan Abbas MIMOS

V. Chairman Glen ChaN okia

SecretaryN ajib Fadil Mohd BisriT M Malaysia

In-recess Working Group17 BNI -V acant -

18 DSB -V acant -

19 NGN -V acant -

20 PLC- Vacant -

21 WIE- Vacant -

Table 5b – MTSFB Reference Panels (RP) 2010/2011 session including respective working group leaders

Table 5a – MTSFB Board of Directors 2010/2011 session

MTSFB Board of Directors and Reference Panel membersb. Technical Specification which relates to consumer product, equipment or access device related to Type Approval/Certification.

c. Guideline which is general information, recommendation or work practice.

A Malaysian Standard issued by SIRIM is the National Standard and stands as voluntary.

Among the achievements of MTSFB through this collaboration are having two documents registered as Mandatory Standards (Determination No. 1:2004 on 3G & Determination No. 2:2006 on DTTB) which certainly carry regulatory weight for local industry players to comply with while three other documents were gazetted as Malaysian Standard (MS 1903:2006 on NGN, MS 1902:2006 on BPL & MS 2235:2009 on IPv6).

CHALLENGES

Malaysia’s participation in global standardisation and harmonisation is vital to the success of the country’s ICT industry. Moving forward, the challenge is to address the three identified reasons for the standardisation gap to be reduced. We must acquire ICT technologies for the country and promote the importance of standard development activities to the national economy.

Having set the base, MTSFB can move on to address many of the challenges facing the industry today, such as standardisation gaps within ICT technologies and interoperability with competing technologies. Besides aligning Malaysia’s technological expertise and objectives to those of international bodies, Malaysia’s experience may soon allow us to submit home-grown technology proposals to the ITU as candidates for future world communications technologies.

OFFICE RELOCATION(on 30 APRIL 2011)

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Relocation – new office – Digital Media Centre Relocation – new office – Digital Media Centre

Relocation – old office – Incubator 3

Photo of Enterprise 4 Building

MTSFBL2-E-11, Lab 3, Digital Media Centre, Enterprise 4,Technology Park Malaysia,Lebuhraya Puchong-Sg. Besi, Bukit Jalil,57000 Kuala Lumpur.