The TM Forum is bringing the players in the industry together to drive a common approach to the management of user devices such as mobile handsets, set-top boxes, and home gateways. TM Forum is looking at management approaches currently used in the mobile, cable and consumer electronics fields and defining a lightweight, simple approach to manage all devices as quickly as possible.
| MIT Media Labs guru Dr. David Clark estimates there could be up to 1 trillion devices in the market in 15-20 years time. |
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| TM Forum Device Management Guidebook | Members Only can access this document today. Click here to download.
This documents, for TM Forum members only, defines the landscape of device management and proposes a path forward towards creating true device management standards.
Questions to be answered include: - How can a common approach be forged across the variety of devices?
- What is the demarcation point between devices and the network?
- Where should the management intelligence reside?
- How can we help spur fixed-mobile convergence?
- How can we more effectively link management of these devices with the way that companies want to manage their businesses and services end-to-end?
Contributing companies include: T-Mobile Netherlands, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Telecom Italia, Satyam, NetCracker, Telefonica, Nokia-Siemens, Cisco, Korea Telecom, Nortel, Siemens
For further information or to contribute to this work contact: Bhanu Nallagonda at bnallagonda@tmforum.org
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| Why Standardized Device Management? | When communications, music and TV were all separate sectors, different approaches to managing the end-user devices that delivered them worked just fine.. But in the “any content on any network on any device” converging world, where information and entertainment is personalized to the user, that approach no longer works.
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One of the major goals of the End-User Device Management work program is work with other Industry Groups - the object being not to re-invent, but rather to build upon related work where possible.
Members Only – Visit the TM Forum Collaboration Workspace for Device Management to read the whole story
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| Leaders |
Program Manager, Device Management: Bhanu Nallagonda
Contact Bhanu at bnallagonda@tmforum.org
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