ITU Focus Group delivers draft international standards to support 5G innovation
The ITU-T Focus Group on network aspects of IMT-2020 (‘5G’) has concluded its preliminary study into the networking innovations required to achieve the ambitious performance targets of smart 5G systems. The group’s output takes the form of five draft ITU international standards…
ITU and NGMN Alliance underline commitment to enabling the 5G era
ITU and the NGMN Alliance have signed a cooperation agreement formalizing their mutual commitment to the development of next-generation mobile broadband technologies. The agreement highlights the mutual intent of ITU and NGMN to coordinate their contributions to the development of…
ITU Blog: Are ICTs deserving of our trust?
To what extent are we willing to trust that data will be used for the purposes expressed by data custodians? How do we decide whether an information and communication technology (ICT) resource performs its function reliably enough to be deserving…
Press release: ITU members agree international standard for Big Data
Building on cloud computing to provide Big Data services Geneva, 18 December 2015 – ITU members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data. The international standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well a…
ITU Blog: Softwarization, 5G and the new dynamics of the ICT industry
We cannot underestimate the impact that ‘softwarization’ is having on today’s information and communication technology (ICT) industry, or what will it mean for the industry of the 5G era. Despite being expensive and error-prone, manual configuration of ICT resources was…
Press release: Expert group identifies emerging demands of ‘5G’ to fuel ITU standardization
Open-source communities to join ITU study of networking innovations Geneva, 17 December – The ITU-T Focus Group on network aspects of IMT-2020 (‘5G’) has received an extension to its lifetime, with a mandate to undertake in-depth studies into areas such as ‘network…