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UPnP Forum and Itophome Work Together on Interoperability Standards for the Connected Digital Home (31/5/2005)

The UPnP(TM) Forum, a global leader in standards for device discovery and control, and Itophome, a leading industry consortium for home networking in China, announced today a cooperation framework to advance interconnection and interoperability between UPnP and Itophome devices. For consumers, seamless connectivity and hassle-free networking are essential to adoption of new applications such as multimedia networking. To help develop the market for home networking products, the two groups have agreed to cooperate to provide interoperability in future versions of their respective standardization efforts.

The UPnP Forum and Itophome were each established by their respective member companies to create interoperability and networking standards. Under the formal liaison agreement, members of the UPnP Forum and Itophome will work together on future generations of networking standards to provide interoperability between devices. This will include committee chair meetings and joint plugfests and interoperability events during 2005 and subsequent years.

"UPnP technology is the common thread in connected home applications," said Toby Nixon, chair of the UPnP Forum Steering Committee. "Itophome is a leading industry consortium for home networking standards in China and this cooperative agreement will help us continue to ensure that UPnP technology provides the broadest architectural framework for self-configuring, self-describing products."

"Many exciting new functions in home networks are now available, including intelligent home device interconnection and control, multimedia entertainment, information sharing and remote learning and working," said Ms. LiLi, general secretary of Itophome Alliance. "We are delighted to be working with the UPnP Forum toward interoperability of devices and networks."

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