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A total of 31 entities in 6 groups participated in the ’Ubinet’ consortium. This includes SK Telecom, Hanaro Telecomm, Samsung Electronics, and LG Electronics, among others.
A broad spectrum of distinctive services such as high definition VoD based on Digital Home services, will be offered. Converged services of telecommunications and broadcasting through close cooperation with TU Media, will also be provided.
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The representatives of `Ubinet` consortium members are shown signing the MOU. This includes Sung Won Seo (6th position from right side in front line), head of SK Telecom`s New Business Division.
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The representatives of `Ubinet` consortium members are shown signing the MOU. This includes Sung Won Seo (6th position from right side in front line), head of SK Telecom`s New Business Division.
SK Telecom announced on October 6th that the company has formed the ’Ubinet’ consortium to implement a broadband combined network (BcN) pilot project, led by the Ministry of Information and Communication. To this end SK Telecom has signed an MOU with the 31 consortium members.
This pilot project is designed to offer BcN pilot services, develop ’Killer’ applications for commercial services, and establish BcN technology and service standardization from October 2004 to the end of 2005. Total development cost for the project is to be 18 billion Korean won. An SK Telecom official revealed that pilot services will be provided to a total of 600 households by the ’Ubinet’ consortium before the end of the year 2005. This will involve 300 households in the Seoul area, and 300 households in the metropolitan region.
The ’Ubinet’ consortium consists of 31 entities in 6 groups:
- SK Telecom and Hanaro Telecomm are in the telecom group.
- Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Herit, Xener Systems, Mirinet, I-Bit, Telcoware, Wooksung Electronics, C&S Technology, Samsoo Telecommunications, and U-Angel are in the telecom equipment group
- Taihan Electric Wire, Hurim Interactive, Korea Fristec, Secure Soft, nTels, Etosys, Idctech, SK C&C, and SK Engineering & Construction are in the solution group
- MBN TV, Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Skylife), Chungcheong Media Broadcasting, and SK Communications are in the content group.
- Busan Metropolitan City and Daejeon Metropolitan City are in the government institution group
- Information and Communications University, Seoul National University, and Inha University are in the university group.
’Ubinet’ is a contraction of ’Ubiquitous Network’, and carries the meaning of broadband multimedia service development based on the ubiquitous network. This consortium has been developing an IP Multimedia Sub-System (IMS) based IP wired and wireless combined service that is a BcN representative service. At this time the consortium has already secured a key technology for the service.
It plans to furnish a spectrum of distinct services such as high definition VoD, based on Digital Home services that are currently being tested under the pilot project. In addition, the consortium will develop converged services of telecommunications and broadcasting through close cooperative ties with TU Media that is currently implementing a satellite DMB service business.
Sung Won Seo, vice-president of SK Telecom commented, "Hanaro Telecom will play an important role in the consortium as it furnishes a wide range of services such as IP-TV and Multimedia over IP (MMOIP). These will be available by using Hanaro Telecomm’s backbone network (transmission network). This will create huge synergistic effects on wired and wireless telecommunications, as well as combined broadcasting services’.
A joint ceremony for the initiation of the ’Ubinet’ consortium took place in SK Telecom’s head office. The participants represented all 31 of the consortium members. This included Sung Won Seo, vice-president of SK Telecom, Seung Seok Lee, vice-president of Hanaro Telecomm, Hyun Tak Cho, vice-president of Samsung Electronics, and Hyun Park, vice-president of LG Electronics, among others.
This pilot project is designed to offer BcN pilot services, develop ’Killer’ applications for commercial services, and establish BcN technology and service standardization from October 2004 to the end of 2005. Total development cost for the project is to be 18 billion Korean won. An SK Telecom official revealed that pilot services will be provided to a total of 600 households by the ’Ubinet’ consortium before the end of the year 2005. This will involve 300 households in the Seoul area, and 300 households in the metropolitan region.
The ’Ubinet’ consortium consists of 31 entities in 6 groups:
- SK Telecom and Hanaro Telecomm are in the telecom group.
- Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Herit, Xener Systems, Mirinet, I-Bit, Telcoware, Wooksung Electronics, C&S Technology, Samsoo Telecommunications, and U-Angel are in the telecom equipment group
- Taihan Electric Wire, Hurim Interactive, Korea Fristec, Secure Soft, nTels, Etosys, Idctech, SK C&C, and SK Engineering & Construction are in the solution group
- MBN TV, Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting (Skylife), Chungcheong Media Broadcasting, and SK Communications are in the content group.
- Busan Metropolitan City and Daejeon Metropolitan City are in the government institution group
- Information and Communications University, Seoul National University, and Inha University are in the university group.
’Ubinet’ is a contraction of ’Ubiquitous Network’, and carries the meaning of broadband multimedia service development based on the ubiquitous network. This consortium has been developing an IP Multimedia Sub-System (IMS) based IP wired and wireless combined service that is a BcN representative service. At this time the consortium has already secured a key technology for the service.
It plans to furnish a spectrum of distinct services such as high definition VoD, based on Digital Home services that are currently being tested under the pilot project. In addition, the consortium will develop converged services of telecommunications and broadcasting through close cooperative ties with TU Media that is currently implementing a satellite DMB service business.
Sung Won Seo, vice-president of SK Telecom commented, "Hanaro Telecom will play an important role in the consortium as it furnishes a wide range of services such as IP-TV and Multimedia over IP (MMOIP). These will be available by using Hanaro Telecomm’s backbone network (transmission network). This will create huge synergistic effects on wired and wireless telecommunications, as well as combined broadcasting services’.
A joint ceremony for the initiation of the ’Ubinet’ consortium took place in SK Telecom’s head office. The participants represented all 31 of the consortium members. This included Sung Won Seo, vice-president of SK Telecom, Seung Seok Lee, vice-president of Hanaro Telecomm, Hyun Tak Cho, vice-president of Samsung Electronics, and Hyun Park, vice-president of LG Electronics, among others.