The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) was a nonprofit trade organization to discuss the key specifications and standards of
residential gateways, also known as home gateways.
It was founded by
telephone companies (
Belgacom,
BT,
Deutsche Telekom
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,
France Telecom,
KPN
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,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
(NTT) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Ranked 55th in ''Fortune'' Global 500, NTT is the fourth largest telecommunications company in the world in terms of revenue, as well as the third largest pu ...
(NTT), Swiss Telecom,
Telenor,
Telecom Italia
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It is ...
and
Teliasonera) in December 2004.
Several manufacturers such as ADB,
Devolo,
Huawei
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,
Ikanos Communications
Ikanos Communications, Incorporated, was a provider of semiconductor and software products for use in homes. It was headquartered in Fremont, California. The company’s digital subscriber line, communications processors and other products were ...
,
Intel
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,
Lantiq, SoftAtHome or
ZTE also joined the alliance.
HGI's aims included:
* Release specifications of the home gateway.
* Boost the market of home communication services to the millions of customers served by its founding members.
* Improve the interoperability of gateways with home devices.
HGI also built on work of other standards bodies such as the
Broadband Forum
The Broadband Forum is a non-profit industry consortium dedicated to developing broadband network specifications. Members include telecommunications networking and service provider companies, broadband device and equipment vendors, consultants and ...
,
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and
Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) Alliance.
The initiative made an agreement with the
Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU:
*
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(ITU-T) in 2006. HGI established relations with oneM2M and initiated a transfer of HGI work into oneM2M, especially regarding a Smart Device Template (SDT) specification which was transferred as ETSI TR 118 522 V2.0.0 (2016-09)
HGI closed operations in June 2016, wrapping up according to its statutes, and archiving all specifications for five years. The HGI website and documents were permanently archived on www.archive.org on 21 February 2021. The organisation webpage www.homegatewayinitiative.org is no longer owned and might potentially be taken over by some other organisation in future.
References
External links
The archived home page of the forum
Publications
Home Gateway Technical Requirements: Residential Profile Version 1.01 - 28 April 2008Home Gateway Technical Requirements: Release 1 Version 1.0 - 1 July 2006
(obsolete)
Networking standards
BT Group
Deutsche Telekom
Orange S.A.
KPN
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Telenor
TIM Group
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