Page 6 - DECT Today - Issue 1 - April 2014

2014 DECT WORLD CONFERENCE REVIEW DECT community gathers in Barcelona 18th annual conference sees DECT players consider new markets and new technologies. The group of companies that make up the new markets. Maiwald’s role not only includes to consumers, and also in Japan. In the USA, DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless the need to manage interference from wireless CAT-iq is emerging, and a certification Telecommunications) Forum, and its spin- technologies operating in adjacent spectrum programme is currently in development. off the ULE Alliance, make up one of the bands, but also potential encroachment from Over the course of the two day programme, longest established wireless industry other technologies that are seeking to ‘share’ more than 50 presentations were made, organisations. The Forum’s annual the band currently enjoyed exclusively by including those from DECT Forum execs such conference, which took place in Barcelona DECT. This was a theme that ran through the as CTO Oliver Maiwald, Marketing Chair Ruth during February, was its 18th such event. conference. Wilson and ULE Alliance director Avi Barel, who each provided updates from their own areas. Since its creation in 1992, the Forum has Key DECT Forum members including telecom International expansion cemented its hold on a dedicated section of operators such as Deutsche Telecom and the frequency band – 1880GHz to 1920GHz in As outlined by Zipp, the Forum is currently Orange, and global device manufacturers such Europe and many other countries. The DECT developing the use of DECT in two major new as NEC, Binatone, Gigaset and Ascom standard covers cordless communications for territories, these being India and China. confirmed their support and commitment to voice and data in that band. Maiwald will be actively involved in both the Forum and to the ongoing development of DECT Forum chairman Andreas Zipp opened projects. Developments in India are ongoing, DECT and ULE technology. the conference with the main keynote. Zipp while the Forum is at the beginning of the The video shown here provides an overview outlined the Forum’s primary roles in PSTN process in China, and intends to form an of the DECT conference, and also includes voice, HD Voice, non-voice services (which are interest group with local operators that will interviews with some of the DECT Forum’s being addressed by ULE, the Ultra-Low Energy work with influencing companies in order to members, each of whom emphasised the wireless technology standard developed capture the interest of the China Ministry of value of this long-running industry event. within the auspices of the DECT Forum) and Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Click on the movie screen below to watch the Enterprise – cordless applications in non- Conference attendees were also given an this presentation. residential products. Zipp explained that the update on developments in CAT-iq, the voice Forum manages all regulatory issues across and networking technology for home Momentum continues these sectors, works to protect DECT’s gateways. CAT-iq integrates a cordless phone exclusive use of its spectrum and develops base station into the home gateway, giving it There is no sign of activity in the DECT sector new territories for DECT implementation. native IP connectivity and enables customers reducing. Indeed, with developments in CAT-iq, As part of his review of 2013 activity, Zipp to make end-to-end VoIP calls with all the HD Voice, ULE, expansion in new markets such confirmed that all matters relating to ULE had extras: wideband HD voice quality, multiple as the enterprise and new geographical been transferred across into the ULE Alliance, lines and synchronized phone books. territories, it seems the organisation will be which was spun out of the DECT Forum during According to Zipp, CAT-iq is now well- kept busy for the foreseeable future. 2013. The ULE Alliance’ vision is to establish established in Europe, where second- The Forum and its members are now planning ULE as a leading control network eco-system generation CAT-iq products are now available the next meeting, which will take place in 2015. for home and building use by leveraging the Click on the screen to watch the video review of the 2014 DECT Forum Conference reliability and range of DECT radio technology. Although the two organisations operate separately, the DECT Forum maintains an involvement, as the two technologies operate in the same, protected spectrum band. Zipp’s review also included confirmation that Oliver Maiwald had been appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the DECT Forum, and that this was a full-time role. Maiwald was appointed as a result of the ongoing need to work with international regulators and government agencies to protect access to DECT’s spectrum and also to further access to 6 DECT Today - The Success Story Continues · www.dect.org